i quit

Okay guys--i have not had a smoke since 950 p.m. Monday,stop smoking now, 09/22/08. I have quit cold turkey. I want the nicotine out of me asap!! i looked on the Farmer's Almanac to see what the best days to quit were--(Heck it was worth a shot.) Anyway, Sept 22 was one of the best days. I have been 'cuttng back' for several weeks. I had planned to not smoke in the a.m. but slipped up. After coming in from work, i found this web site. I had only smoked 3 cigarrettes and decided it was time. AND it was still the Sept. 22.I am 45 and smoked most of my life. I smoked around a pack a day.---my dad would have me light his cigarettes when i was a kid.. In his defense-back then people did not realize smoking was so harmful--This has been hard for me. I have tried to quit a few times in the past but like most addicts,quit smoking now, i have always enjoyed smoking.I have been chewing a LOT of gum and using some of the tips i have seen posted such as drinking juice and water. I feel that i am doing better than i did on previous quits. A few weeks ago I purchased a Nintendo Wii for the Wii FIT and i find that doing exercises on that is a stress reducer. I appears that you are nice people and i know that encouragement and talking to people going through this (or have already gone through this) will be helpful. Oh 1 more thing- Sunday 09/21/08, I went to a Chinese restaurant and on the fortune cookie it said--"Either DO or DO NOT. There is no TRY"That struck home with me. belle