1. Your front teeth are no longer a mysterious shade between puce and ochre.
2. People are not actively complaining about your breath.
3. You are actually gaining weight (not at all a bad thing in my case).
4. You have $10 or $20 of extra spending money in your checkbook, compared to one week ago.
5. When you lit up this morning, you actually had trouble locating the sealed ash container in your car. But of course it was there, right where you had left it.

Congratulations. Right now it has been approximately 76 minutes since your last cigarette.

The time before, you lasted four days.

Trust me, quitting smoking is not easy. But it can be done.