I'm here finally!! I cannot believe that one year ago I just stubbed out my last cigarette. I thought it would be hard, but what surprised me most was the complete roller coaster of emotions I felt, particularly during the first 3 months. However, since then it hasn't been too bad. I still think about smoking from time to time and have had a few craves in the last few days but I do know that I will never smoke again!!!
The reason I will never smoke again is that for the first time since my late teens I am free!! I love this freedom. I don't have that horrible drug inside me, dictating to me constantly, making me leave the table at restaurants when I'm having a great time, making me stand out in the rain and cold, making me kill myself slowly and painfully. Instead I smell fresh, my throat is clear, I don't cough, my bank balance is a little heavier (as am I), I have more energy and time but most of all I'm FREE and it feels amazing!!!!
Good luck to you all and thank you to everyone for all the support you have provided over this past year. This forum has really helped me and I hope I can repay the favour by helping others.
Sarah - the penthouse's newest resident
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Thanks Kat and Max! It certainly is a great feeling to have made it to the penthouse! You 2 have been so supportive to me over the last year - I really appreciate it
You are completely and utterly welcome petal, it's been a privilege and a pleasure to walk the road with you
Now I suggest you open another bottle of bubbly, one is quite simply far too paltry and entirely inadequate to celebrate such a momentous achievement!;)
My bottle of bubbly turned into a large bowl of peanut butter cup ice cream followed by some crunchy nut cornflakes!! Wild night for me
HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to you Sarah. It's an enormous battle/challenge that we take on here, and it's brilliant to see your success. Have a fab time in the hallowed portals of the PH!
Fantastic Sarah, had to look in to offer my congratulations, I'm chuffed to bits that you made it to the one year milestone on the path to freedom, one hell of an achievement! Isn't the view great from here?? woohoo!!
Thanks guys! It's so lovely to hear from so many of you!! It's a great feeling that you will all get to experience sometime within the next months hopefully!!
I'm so sorry that I missed your penthouse post, and I just wanted to send you my congratulations for such an amazing achievement! ;):p
I hope that you're enjoying the penthouse so far and I'd like to thank you for all of your encouragement with my own quit in those last few months before I reached the one year mark. You so deserve this and it's wonderful to see you've been successful.
I'm so sorry that I missed your penthouse post, and I just wanted to send you my congratulations for such an amazing achievement! ;):p
I hope that you're enjoying the penthouse so far and I'd like to thank you for all of your encouragement with my own quit in those last few months before I reached the one year mark. You so deserve this and it's wonderful to see you've been successful.
Sarah Lou xxx
Thank you so much!!!! I hope you are keeping well.
Sarah.....Ok - I know that I am waaayyyyy late - but I couldn't not say Congratulations to you! At this point you are past a year and 1/2 - knocking on 2 years door. I am so glad you have made it to the Penthouse! Proud of you!!
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