[Originally posted by me on 21 June 2001]
June 21, 2001, marks DOF status (Double Old Fogey, two years
quit) for me. To most of you I'm just one of those names on the
Quit List that you never hear from, and I thought you might want
to know why you haven't seen me much in AS3 these days.
The best analogy that I've come up with is this: Stopping smoking
is like moving house. At first all you can think of is where
everything used to be. It takes a while until the new routine of
daily life replaces the old one. Well, stopping smoking seems a
lot like that to me. I've spent the past two years only doing
things without smoking. It's not often that I think of how a
different home, or smoking, was part of my daily routine.
Of course I've had problems since then -- some familiar, some
entirely new -- but the familiar ones I've had practice dealing
with already, and the unfamiliar ones, not having happened
before, aren't triggers for anything. I do know that smoking
wouldn't have helped any of these, but just added one more
problem to everything.
Anyway, I hope all this encourages the new quitters that there IS
life without smoking, and that some of the OFs and higher aren't
often in this group because they're busy dealing with all the
other good and bad things that happen in life. In my OF speech
(posted to AS3 on June 21, 2000, subject: "My OF Speech"), I had
more detail on how I made it to that milestone, if anyone wants
to look that up on Google or wherever. And I would like to thank
my quit group, the June Bugs: Colleen, Anita, Josie, me, Cindy,
Christina, Lisa, Allan, Kathy and Melissa. That's ten of us who
all become DOFs this month!
Adam, new DOF
no longer keeping a meter, but something like:
2Y, 24000 not smoked, US $2400 (at old prices)
spent on better things
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