Popping in with some neat news!!!!

Hello to all you newbies, old pharts (like myself now) and just plain quitters! Without this BB I would not be here, because I quit with the help and friendship of this place and beautiful people. It was not always easy in the beginning but it is so very doable as Katiem would say!!!I am soon to embark on a journey that I have wanted to take for a long time. While my mother was alive it was her favorite vacation spot and she so wanted to share it with me, but I was a secret smoker, I never smoked around her and the thought of being with her a week without a smoke just did me in,stop smoking now, so of course I kept putting her off and she traveled without me. I lost my mom 5 years ago. It was so sad and not a day goes by that I don't regret all the time I could have had with her if I just did not smoke or hide my smoking from her. I think she would have still loved me. It has taken 5 years for me to get the courage up to travel to that place and I am leaving on October 15. It is to Nantucket Island. I know I will feel my mom's presence there somehow.I could never take this trip if I smoked. It is by plane and by boat and there is no smoking allowed. I would have never done it. Now that I am a nonsmoker and very comfortable and happy to be one, I will be making the journey. It is quite a distance for me,smoking cessation, but by plane and boat only hours away!!!!Just wanted to say that - there is nothing we cannot attain, nothing is beyond our reach !!!! It all starts with Not One Puff and for me it has been ONE YEAR 2 WEEKS ETC. Have a wonderful day and thanks for listening!!!!