Generally speaking, I don't post about personal stuff, but every year at this time I make an exception.
Today is the third anniversary of my last cigarette. I have been 1097 days smoke free, or, as the best quit smoking site I found on the net, www.quitnet.com, calculates:
Quitting smoking was the hardest thing I ever did, and the smartest as well. Highly recommended, as is The Quit Net.
Posted by Geodog at July 26, 2004 09:51 PM | TrackBackMy apologies, but my web hoster has turned off commenting, due to a flood of obscene spam bringing the server to its knees. I hope to have this weblog transitioned over to Wordpress in the near future, so that I can have commenting up and working again. Until then, please feel free to send me your comments via my email contact form.. Please ignore everything below this comment.
Congratulations. The best rewards from quitting smoking are probably immeasurable.
My grandmother quit smoking at around age 40 after a thirty year habit. As a kid, the adults would make her "start" cigarettes for them which naturally got her hooked. But I'm sure that quitting added years to her life.
She did it cold turkey too.
Posted by: Eugene on July 27, 2004 02:37 PMThanks, Eugene. The best rewards are knowing that I'm not going to be contributing to health problems in my family, nor starting my kid on the road to cigarette addiction, and that I'm significantly more likely to be around for my kids adulthood.
Posted by: Tim on July 28, 2004 12:30 PM