Checking in, have not been here for a minute. Got the email I have been tagged in a celebrations post... 150 days! And I am still smoke free!
It feels fantastic! I feel fantastic. I am going to take a second here and toot my own horn. Toot toot!
I just heard from my best friend last night that, apparently while I was not paying attention, California is planning to ban the sale of menthol cigarettes effective January 1st. I only ever smoked menthols, regular cigarettes never tasted good to me. Soo... I am quite happy about this. It will be a lot easier for me to keep the quit, when the temptation is that much harder to come by. I realize there are other ways to get nicotine if I decided I was really going to. But now my preferred method will be require a 3 hour drive to Nevada, not a 2 minute drive to the corner store.
I am so grateful for my quit. The skin on my face is starting to look better. I smell better, and my nose smells better. Food tastes better. My teeth are starting to look just a little less yellow. I sleep better. I have saved so much money, I just paid off my daughter's braces a full 11 months early. Now I am planning to save the "cigarette money" and the money I was paying towards the braces to try and get together a down payment for a travel trailer for the family by next fall. That is the goal anyway.
I am so grateful too, for my fellow Ex-ers. The early days were rough. Rooouuuugggghhhh. I don't know if I would have made it past the first the month without this site. Thank you thank you thank you!!
