Just an additional note for the day – it deserves an entry all of its own.

This evening, on the 7th of June, 2003, at 10 pm, I complete two years of being nicotine free. Two years of no smoking – not a single cigarette.

I have a little program on my PDA called PuffFree that tracks my non-smoking statistics – it currently says:

Quit Smoking for 1 year, 11 months, 4 weeks 2 days, 21 hours and 33 minutes.

Cigarettes not smoked: 10,948

Money saved: Rs.32,297

Life saved by: 1 month, 1 week, 1 day and 22 minutes.

Coincidentally, this (rather major) change in my life (I had been smoking since 1977) came about in the presence of the same person who caused a major change in my life in December 1992 (when he asked me to write for PCQuest) – Prasanto Roy, now editor of DataQuest, who just happened to be over for dinner this day two years ago when this momentous decision was taken.