Today is my … third day without a nicoderm patch, after about 6 weeks WITH the patch! I used to talk a lot.. now I NEVER shut up.. Day one.. you should see the message I posted here on CAP.. It got moderated.. it was that bad..
I don’t see my kids real often lately either .. hrmm 
Anyway .. here’s some bright points for you.. feel free to PM me, I seem to have lots to say.. Just ask my business partner, whom I try to keep on the phone for as many hours as possible lately 
1. I have SOOOOOOO much more energy. I can’t sit still, I asked my husband when do you think I’ll be back to normal! he said.. you’ve smoked your entire adult life, maybe this is normal .. (so reason 1a. A clean house, and tons of completed projects! )
2. Taste, stuff tastes sooo good, is it fair that quitting smoking gives you the munchies as it is? Then everything tastes sooo much better!
3. Smell.. I’m not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing.. but my sense of smell has gotten soooo much stronger! I think baking lots of bread, which should go well with step 2 is good for making this a benefit and not a con.
4. Clean Air.. Clean Lungs.. Clean Clothes.. Clean Hair!
5. Winter is coming man, it’s cold outside!
6. No ashtray mouth, which is the reason I have stayed quit.. every time I want a cigarette.. I dream about them.. I think … but it’s gunna taste sooo gross! (damn those newly alert taste buds anyway )
Of course there’s the usual stuff, like not killing people with second hand smoke, not smelling up the environment, not getting lung cancer, or mouth cancer, or throat cancer.. your house won’t stink and neither will your car..
Then there’s the MONEY! I love money! I have kids, so money is never mine.. it’s always theirs. I made a deal (with me.. ) I used to smoke .. A LOT! now.. I get to keep half of what i would have spent on cigarettes anyway, and do something .. frivolous.. like pedicures.. or movies.. or just whatever, waste it.. nothing to show for it.. MY MONEY!
I am saving somewhere between 5 and 15 dollars EVERY DAY!
Walking, doing lots of walking, exercise, etc.. going to the gym A LOT more, because I’ve found.. I’m rather bitchy lately (sorry Rob .. and Steve.. and errr Professor.. War.. Insert Name here.. ) when I get pissed off, I have taken to grabbing my tennis shoes instead of a cigarette.. more fulfilling anyway really..
Anyway those are some of my reasons, wish me luck, I’ll wish you luck 
and you can feel free to do some of your bitching in my PM box