At midnight on January 19, 1997, I quit smoking, for good.  This time.  Yes, I had quit several times before. But, this time was different.  My heart was in it. I really wanted to give it up.  That was four thousand-eighteen (4018) days ago!  It seems like just yesterday.  I would rollover.  Open one eye and feel around my night stand, scrambling for a cigarette.

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As I write this I have lost 15 pounds. Fifteen pounds! That’s the equivalent of 60 quarter pound cheeseburgers. Fifteen, 16 oz rib-eye steaks. Or, thirty, 8 oz cups of cottage cheese…..Yuck!  No matter how you cut it, fifteen pounds is a lot of extra weight.

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