How time flies when your living life nicotine free. I turned Gold X2, 2 weeks ago. Reflecting back on the early days of my freedom journey, I remember waking
up one morning laying in bed and listening to the birds chirping outside. That was a totally new experience. For the past 30 yrs my routine was to jump out of
for a nicotine feeding....no time to just lay in bed and enjoy listening to birds...birds didn't exist, just nicotine. My, how time flies when your living
life the way it was intended. After my nicotine fogged up brain cleared out a bit, I found a whole new world out there, full of all kinds of things I never
noticed cause I had been obsessed with and enslaved to feeding my addiction. Living life nicotine free, no regrets here. A dream come true. There was a time I
thought it just wasnt in the cards for me, it was too late, I wasn't strong enough..... Then I stumbled onto whyquit.com, read a lot of personal posts,
educated myself more on nicotine addiction and a light bulb went on inside me. I saw that I was the only one keeping myself from my dream to be free from
nicotine. It became clear what was needed: commitment (I could do that); read (I could do that); attitude (I could do that); apply knowledge (I could do that);
for today, don't take a puff (I could do that)...... There was no reason why I couldn't quit and after reading so many freedomites successful stories
& posts, I wanted what they had found, "Freedom", if all those people could have it, why couldnt I?. The tools are all right here for me to use
and they are all free. I wasnt going to die without nicotine, but I was going to die with nicotine. And so the Junkie thinking and lies began turning into
Truth. And with Truth came Freedom. A one way road to freedom and healing...it was simple really....no U-Turns to take, no detours....just Never Take Another
Puff! Oh. I was scared alright. I had tried numerous times over the years and the thought of another failure had me trembling in my boots. But I took a leap of
faith. This time my quite felt unexplainably different. My hubby even commented on that. He said he had hesitated to say much to me about my quitting, was
going to sit back and watch and wait ...didn't want to get his hopes up again. But he said you are different this time around, you aren't just
"trying" to do it, you ARE doing it. I am grateful I stumbled onto this site. I am grateful to Joel and fellow freedomites who educate, support, and
encourage and each other's quit. I am grateful to be nicotine free today! I am committed to NTAP!! Lou/Free and Healing 2 years and 1 week freed of 29,534
nicotine feedings Saved $5,168 from going up in smoke

