So it has been nine weeks today since Dale and I have quit smoking. As I have joked in the past, we both still have our jobs, we haven’t spent any time in jail and are still together! Needless to say, we rule!

I read Allen Carr’s Easy Way to Quit Smoking. I won’t say the book is a ‘miracle’ book, you do really have to want to quit, and I won’t also say that I didn’t the spend the first three days locked in my house driving both Dale and myself crazy as the little nicotine monster was dying but in the end it was all well worth it.

I look back at my life as a smoker and it feels really far away from where I am now. I may not be a superstar athlete yet but I sure breathe easier, smell better and have more pocket change.