EB Celebrates Six Months Without a Single Puff

These Things Have Disappeared:

AT SIX MONTHS WITHOUT ONE SINGLE PUFF AND AFTER OVER 25 YEARS OF SMOKING, THESE THINGS HAVE DISAPPEARED:

• A pressure, heaviness, and pain in my lungs in the morning.
• Morning cough.
• Breathlessness in my reading voice.
• Breathlessness when walking up hills or stairs.
• Unpleasant irritation in my mouth.
• General tiredness and loss of energy.
• Headaches.
• Cigarette hangovers after late nights out.
• Yellow teeth.
• Bloodshot eyes.
• Bad breath.
• Hair that smells like an ashtray.
• Two yellow, stinky fingers.
• Waking up at night coughing.
• Colds that turn into terrible chest colds that need to be treated by antibiotics.
• Gravel, broke-glass voice.
• Constant clearing of my throat.
• Constant stuffy nose.

In my opinion, people who quit cigarettes are supermen and superwomen - like those who have climbed Mount Everest, or been to the South Pole, or swum across the British Channel, etc.

QUITTING CIGARETTES IS AN ENORMOUS ACCOMPLISHMENT!

So...maybe ex-smokers are the coolest, bravest, and strongest people on earth! We are rocking!

EB(Quit date: May 6, 2003) Pull up your socks. These are no small potatoes!
emilybronte(EMILYBRONTE1)

EB's List of Reasons to Quit Smoking
EB's One Year Milestone Speech