As of today, I have been smoke free for one year.
The date on my quit meter was May 8th, which was based upon being nicotine free. My last partial nicotine lozenge was on May 7th.
Last year was leap year, so my '1 year mark' will seem to be on May 7th. Not sure how I want to evaluate that one. I plan to post my story (via blog link) on either the 7th or the 8th.
I just took my car in for repairs today, and I was looking at $1600 + in repairs. I've had some other biggies in the past year or so. ....
It looks like I've saved about $1845 to date on quitting smoking.
So....instead of spending that cash on some expensive repairs, I just spent that $1845 saved and another $155 on a down payment for a brand new car today. I have never had a new car before. Always bought used. But this one was priced the same as used ones, it was kind of a quit anniversary, and I actually had the money.
So I guess my reward kind of presented itself right on time.The new one gets better gas mileage than my old one, so I guess I'll be producing fewer carbon emissions all around.
I got some tears in my eyes as I typed this.
Lots of high emotion as the deal was argued and changed multiple times. At one point, I had 3 sales guys staring me down, and I got up and left the place for a while to regroup. 
