Such a good post! Bump  

When you are deep into your quit, you will kick yourself for not quitting sooner.

Thank you for sharing this. The part about whispering that promise to your dad really stayed with me, and I’m so sorry you lost him that way. I also saw myself in your story. “I’ll quit when...” is a sentence I know very well, and I have also quit and then gone back, so I understand how heavy that feels. What hit me most was how you said it always started with just one puff, and how tomorrow is a carrot we never reach. After all those years, you still picked up that dusty book and tried one more time, and now you can say “I am free.” That gives me real hope. I’m going to come back and read this again on my hard days. Thank you, and congratulations on your freedom.