Over the course of the long Memorial Day weekend, I missed my 5 Year Quit Smoking anniversary.
I quit smoking 5 years and 3 days ago, and have not had a single relapse (not even one cigarette — not even a single drag) since I put down my last cigarette.
As I previously wrote one year after I quit, quiting was not hard. In fact, it was easier to quit smoking than it was to start.
Here are my SilkQuit Meter stats as of today:
Assume that it takes about 4 minutes to smoke each cigarette (not to mention time spent looking for a lighter, stopping to buy more smokes, walking down 3 flights of steps to the smoking area, etc.), that’s 183008 minutes — or 127.08 days.
In other words, over the course of the last five years, I would have spent four continuous months (plus one full week) huffing on a cigarette. 45,752 cigarettes. I can barely imagine what that many cigarettes looks like.
After marrying my wife and joining the Army, quitting smoking is the best decision I’ve ever made in my life.
You sure did save a lot of time and money, but if you think you’ve saved your life, you’re dreaming. It’s NEVER publicized, but smoking was proven harmless way back in the fifties when scientists tried and failed to give lab animals diseases with heavy doses of smoke.
The thousands of antitobacco studies done since are phony. If you doubt this, do your own study to disprove those of 60 years ago. If you’re succesfiul I’ll quit, too.
Left by Joe Camel on May 28th, 2008 at 2:13 pm