2 Months - Times have Changed!

Yesterday was officially my 2 month quitversary - 2 months smokefree - not bad for someone who used to smoke 20 a day (and that was just on a good day!)  I'm feeling good, and things have now got to the stage where I don't really think about cigarettes all that much. 
I look at people smoking on TV, and it doesn't bother me like it used to.  I had a dream that I had a cigarette a week ago, and didn't wake up feeling guilty.  I've felt stressed, overwhelmed, underwhelmed, anxious, frustrated, bored and everything in between - but I've felt decidedly unaffected by the lack of cigarettes and nicotine. 
At the beginning I just reminded myself that I've had problems before, and having a cigarette really didn't help that much.  Smoking didn't help me when I was going through a bad break-up a few years back, it hadn't stopped me being bored at times (it just meant that I was bored in a different location, i.e outside), and yes I've been grumpy over the last few months too, but strangely enough I was grumpy before!
There are a few things that have changed though, including being able to smell a smoker from what seems like a mile away - I cannot even begin to describe how strong the smell is to me, and it's odd to think that I could stand it whilst I smoked.  My sense of taste has now improved, and I'm finding it a lot easier to be able to taste individual ingredients in the food I eat.  My clothes smell great now as any lingering air of stale smoke has well and truly gone, and I also find it a fantastic feeling to know that when I go to give my nephews a hug, that they aren't getting that 'aunty fag-ash' stench that they would've done before.
So all in all it's going well, and it has also been really easy, but although I feel extremely proud of what I have achieved, at the same time I also feel that nothing has really changed. I still get bored, I still get stressed, I still go out pubbing/clubbing, and still hang around with all my friends (those who smoke, and those who don't) but as I've accepted that these things will happen whether I smoke or not, I can enjoy all these things without feeling as if I'm missing out...
RESULT!