First and foremost, thank you so much to those sweet friends who sent me special Day 900 wishes! I'm on my final approach into... eek, I dare not say it!
Anyway, a few folks asked me why the official Quit Clock on my profile is one day ahead of The Freedom Train’s quit meter. Well, here’s how I crafted my Quit Day back in 2014...
I smoked my last cigarette on the night before my Quit Day. I showered, went to bed a little early, and slept in late the next morning. When I woke up on March 1st (my official and spiritual Quit Day), I was already 10 hours smoke-free...just as I planned (I wanted every second of my Quit Day to be totally unblemished by smoking). Before the sun set on March 1, I hit the 24-hour mark, meaning March 1 was also my mathematical Day 1, not March 2nd.
Is your head spinning yet?
Since it is unfair to expect the Freedom Train Conductors to micro-manage dozens and dozens of quit dates, and to track the exact hour of the last puff, it’s important that they adhere to one standardized counting method that applies to all of us (they explain this on each and every Freedom Train blog). They count 24-hour marks, not calendar squares, and this day-after method ends up being wholly accurate for (I'm guessing) 95% of quits.
It's those of us who never smoked at all on Quit Day (from midnight to midnight, basically) who are the oddball black sheep around here, but - so what?! Two parties, twice the fun!.
Maybe it’s a little confusing, and there may be 2 acceptable ways to count a quit, but there’s ONLY ONE WAY to keep that clock sterling and honest, and that’s to NEVER TAKE ANOTHER PUFF AGAIN - EVER!
STORM: 902
