Here we are in March of 2010. No Smokes, weight is OK

It's been a long time. Just more than 3 years and 2 months...

It seems, in some ways, that I never smoked. Time's blurring capability has made it such that smoking is just an old nightmare, and old dream... a dream that can be forgotten.

Last night, after a night out taking my daughter to the movies (Alice in Wonderland! how cool!), we walked from the theater after about 10 P.M. Someone was smoking outside and I caught whiffs of freshly-lit cigarette smoke. It smelled sort of faintly good from a great distance - like the sound of an old friend's voice. Then, my non-smoking mind took over and thought, "Naw. You don't need that. It will taste nasty and feel bad. Besides, who wants to break open that old chestnut anyway?"

As I got closer to the smoker and her cigarette, the smell became noxious. My mind then reminded me that it really is nasty, and that the nicotine demon really isn't my friend: it is my MORTAL enemy.

Still not smoking.

Life is very much renewing. A bright Flower now grows in the Garden of my life. My children are finally on the mend. I am making progress towards a better life.

And I still don't want to smoke. Really. I might have one on my 125th birthday... yeah, that's it!

WOW 875 Days no smokes! And Now I have a job.

Your Quit Date is: Monday, January 22, 2007 at 10:00:00 AM
Time Smoke-Free: 875 days, 20 hours, 10 seconds
Cigarettes NOT smoked: 30654
Lifetime Saved: 7 months, 24 days, 3 hours

I made it through unemployment without having a single smoke (and truthfully, the desire to have a smoke wasn't there, either).

What a great gift to my kids and my family on Father's day...

June, 2009 - Still free of nicotine!

863 days, 11 hours, 41 minutes and 51 seconds smoke free.

30222 cigarettes not smoked.
$4,379.73 and 7 months, 20 days, 20 hours of your life saved. (And that was when smokes were about $2.75-$3.00 a pack.)