3½ years free.

[NicFirth]

Today it is 42 months since I quit and in that time I would have smoked over twenty three thousand cigarettes and spent about six grand doing so.

Not one single puff since, I'm pretty pleased with how its turned out really I find it hard to remember what it was like to be a smoker now all those associations with pleasure, relaxation, reward and so on are gone.

Hang in there everyone its a well trodden path, but its great to be free from the clutches of nicotine.

[nsd_user663_4123]

Strangely enough it's not the "six grand" that sticks in my head from your post (maybe that's because I'm in the process of selling a house and buying another, money has little meaning right now!) but it's the 23,000 cigs that makes me do this > :eek:

It really is an astonishing number.

Congratulations by the way, a terrific effort!!

[austinlegro 11 Years Smoke Free]

Are you sure ½ year posts are permitted Nick?

hearty congratulations btw.

[nsd_user663_5972]

Congratulations to you...I think whilst health is improtant it is definitly the money side which makes me go :eek: the amount of hot sunny holidays I could have with that!

Thanks for posting I am sure this is is reasurring to some at the beginning that there is a such a thing as life without the smokes.

[nsd_user663_4121]

Congrats Mo..... I mean Nic

[nsd_user663_18145]

Thats a great post to read

Well done

Onwards and upwards is the only way to go

[nsd_user663_6426]

Nice one...defo the 23,000 fags that made me go WTF!?!

Well done and yes it's great to know that there are people that don't think about fags in a desirable way since quitting.

Huge congrats and thanks for posting, confirms to me that this is all worth it.

Lisa x

[NicFirth 10 Years Smoke Free]

Thanks all, I used to smoke just shy of 20 a day and when I look at the price my old brand have gone up to I'm staggered that people can still afford to smoke.

I've been having an exercise blitz over the last week or so, something that would have left me wheezing in the 1st half of 2008. Martial arts classes on Thursday, Friday, Monday and Tuesday and on Sunday I was doing a fitness circuit that comprised carrying 2 Gas bottles, flipping tractor tires, lifting swiss balls filled with water and other stupidly draining things.

I get fewer colds now (initially it was more) and recover quicker, I have better circulation, better stamina and am generally happier as there are not the mood altering chemically induced swings from craving to feeding that there once was.

The rewards are there and the loss is nothing!

The route to quitting is adopting a stubborn single minded approach and not giving into any temptations.