Think I'll celebrate tomorrow with a smoke.

Just kidding. So glad that monkey is off my back. Quit after 27 years of smoking.

FP Edit: To answer a recurring question; the app in the picture is "Quit Tracker." It is free, I like it. I live in an area where smokes are fairly cheap. At the time I quit I would pay $6.84 including tax per pack. That is what my savings is based off of as I smoked a pack/day.

Someone asked what the doctor said to me to encourage me to quit. I kept using the lack of will power excuse and this particular doctor asked me questions about accomplishments in my life and then used my answers to dispute my will power excuse. He would point out I made it through basic training, spent 20 years in the military, went back to college at 37 and graduated at 41. "Those things are not something with no will power can accomplish."
Then he followed that up with where my health is headed as I am also a Type II Diabetic. I apparently have been since I was a teen according to every blood test I had in the military, but no one told me. Of course blood tests are generally done in physicals before deployments. So why would they tell me.

Some of the things he said really upset me. When I left this doctor ran out of the building and chased me down to tell me he was sorry, and he could tell he had upset me but the he really believed I could do this and really wanted to get how badly I needed to do this across to me.

I was blown away by the fact that this doctor cared enough to chase me down in the parking lot. I quit the next morning and never looked back.

Also what really helped is that my wife quit with me. I failed many times before and my downfall was usually coming home and we would talk about our day on the back porch and smoke. I told her how badly I needed her to quit with me and she did. It took her 2 more days but she did. So you can double the savings that is shown on the app b/c she smoked as much as I.

I only gained about 5 lbs over this year after I quit. I actually lost about 15 lbs the first month b/c I replaced smoking with drinking water. I try to drink 100 ounces of water per day. I gained 20 back, however I said if I make it a year I would then commit to a workout regime.
So here I am about to embark on that journey.

TLDR: I quit smoking a year ago with the help of the Quit Tracker app, an encouraging doc, drinking lots of water, and a supportive spouse.

YOU CAN DO IT TOO!

In closing I didn't expect to make it to FP with this post, but feel free to send me boobs of the female variety to celebrate 1 year of being smoke free.