One Year!!

So I've quit smoking many many times in my life, and I believe the longest I have gone is 2 years, and then some sore of "disaster" would happen in my life, usually a break up, and I would start smoking again. So why would this time be different??? This time is different because I'm really done with it!! and I'm under such a microscope at work that I think they would kill me if I started again. Actually when I quit smoking, I quit cold turkey. That was extremely hard, but I did it!! My husband and co-workers survived I didn't end up strangling anyone, which was good because I have the best husband and co-workers out there!! This is what they did for me.

For the whole world to see :)

I didn't work on July 14th, which was my one year anniversary for no longer smoking. So when I got to work on Wednesday the 15th, the lights were turned off, so with turning the lights on this is what I saw at my desk along with a couple of my co-workers jumping out of the exam rooms at me :) I had the best day ever!!! some of my co-workers came in on their days off to congratulate me, and eat cake :) Sharon, Megan, Deb and Carl (Carl was my smoking cessation instructer, and Sharon and Megan are the Director and Assistant Director of Nursing, and my friend Deb) came up and gave me a certificate, coffee card, and lots of hugs. They also decorated the triage room, however somehow I accidentally deleted that picture, the funny thing is not a whole lot of peole asked me why there were balloons and streamers everywhere. Probably because they weren't feeling well, it was usually the children that would ask, of course and so cute!! So I would tell them, it was great if I had a smoker in the triage room with me and they would ask. I generally always give some little speal and offer them Carl's phone number so they have the opportunity to take the smoking cessation class. Anyways it was a great day, and I love my job, I've said that for awhile now, it's just nice to see how many people at Saltzer care and are proud of me, it's amazing!!!