[Overpaid Slacker]

Further to Hugh's comment -- if you're out there and want to quit, c'mon in, there's plenty of room and a lot of support. Most of my fellow quitters had a week's head start on me when I signed up, so don't feel like you're late to the game if you start now.

FWIW, I don't keep track of the "it's been X days since..." stuff. This may be rationalization, but that means that if I have a smoke at some time, I've broken that streak, or let myself down ... something that makes me likelier to say "well, might as well start up again..."

I gauge it by whether I *want* to smoke, which is different from craving a cigarette (I haven't had a sober craving in a couple of weeks). When I stumbled across that pack of smokes under the couch the other day, home all alone, I had a moment's panic, waiting to see if I was going to try to justify one to myself. The most convincing feeling of having quit was not wanting one, and just throwing them away with the other debris that had accumulated under the couch.

JP