Congratulations on those great quits! I quit July 12, 2001. I just celebrated one whole year quit, and does that feel good! I had never been able to quit before in all my 49 years, and I started smoking when I was only 12.

When I first quit, I put on 20 pounds. That eventually came off, but I was already heavy when I stopped smoking. I admire your ability to quit smoking AND diet. I could never have done it. I ate so many Tootsie pops I should have bought stock in the company But I still think that it should be easier to lose these 50 or so pounds than it was to quit smoking, so I am finally ready to tackle that.

There was a fantastic website that I used for support when I quit that helped tremendously. I still drop by! It is called http://quitnet.com, and it is very similar to this site.