A significant anniversary

I was just thinking this morning that it has been 17 years since I quit smoking. That’s cool. I quit on March 21, 1993. Wow! I can not believe it’s been that long. I started smoking when I was 15 years old and quit when I was 33. That means that I smoked for 18 years and next year I will have been a non-smoker as long as I was a smoker. Wow!! I barely remember what it was like to smoke though I do remember some things. I remember constantly having to plan my day and my work to accommodate smoke breaks. I actually remember when it was legal to smoke indoors. I worked in an office where lots of people smoked. In the office!!! When they passed the law that you could not smoke in the office but had to go outside it was so inconvenient. When I worked in a high rise in Honolulu I had to take the elevator down 20 floors to go outside and smoke. Very annoying. I remember I tried a number of times to quit. And a number of ways. I tried the patch when it first came out. I tried the gum. I definitely tried cold turkey a number of times. None of them worked. That was pretty much all we had back then. Now they have electronic cigarettes, how cool is that? You could even use them indoors, But, we only had limited options 17 years ago. Then one day I saw an ad for a hypnotist and I decided to try it. It worked the first time. I saw him on March 21, the first day of spring, and that was the day of my last cigarette. I never really craved them and have been grateful that I quit ever since. So it’s been 17 years since I quit smoking. Wow!!!