Well, yesterday came and went, and in the pie chart in my head I notched out another piece of this year. For some strange reason, this quit has been a mental pie chart. In the beginning, I had a pig smoky circle that just needed to be filled. Then there was one-twelfth of the chart gone. The next month it was one-sixth, then one-fourth, a third and so on. Being an English Major, this was a shocking way to look at my new non-smoking life, but often late at night my mind rumbles to distant foreign lands, it had to eventually make it to math.
So, here I sit, and I�ve made it to two-thirds of a year without a cigarette. Next month will be three-quarters of a year, then five-sixths and eleven-twelfths and a fell year, and I ask myself. What then. Well, I guess, then I�ll be half-way to my second year.
As I�ve written, we�ve moved in the past two months and I can�t find anything� But I went on a search for the years of journals I�ve kept� The ones I haven�t found the time to convert to the computer, and late at night, when I can�t sleep, and I�m tired of worrying about what still needs to be done at the new house, or what some contractor hasn�t done to the specs I like, I re-read the journals. I�ve found a couple amazing things.
My longest quit� To date� but still, I�m certain it was my longest quit, was 153 days and I was on the patch for 120 days of that. Over the last thirteen years of my relation ship with my partner I�ve tried to quit some eighteen times, not counting this time. Each time, re-reading the journal, I can see from day one that I really didn�t want to quit, I was just going through the process to make someone else happy. I�d say I�m well into my quit this time, just wait for the next chunk of this year�s piece of the pie to be filled in�
May you all be as peaceful with your quits as I am at this moment, and if you�re not, may calm be just around the corner.
Peace, Jackey
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 12/22/2005
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 244
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 4,896
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $1019.92
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 33 [B]Hrs:[/B] 6 [B]Mins:[/B] 37 [B]Seconds:[/B] 23
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Quit Meter
$217,711.50
Amount Saved
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Days: 8226
Hours: 17
Minutes: 13
Seconds: 20
Life Gained
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45834
Smoke Free Days
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Quit Meter
870,846
Cigarettes Not Smoked
