Today

Today marks 7 months of living a healthy and smoke-free life. I've been able to do so many things in those months that I never could have done while smoking. I continued to bike to school every day of the week as well as use my bike to get around town. Back in November, I started biking less but going to the gym to run on the treadmill and before I left for Costa Rica in late December, I was able to run a 5K non-stop! While I was in Costa Rica, I was hiking a lot and was never out of breath. Now back in Vermont, I am back at the gym and doing yoga with my girlfriend. All of these things would never have happened had I still been smoking, or at least I would have been a very unhappy person. Overall, I'm feeling confident and proud of the person I have become since I quit that dirty habit. I found this image yesterday and it reminded me of how I kept motivated in those early attempts to quit.