Outstanding Ian!!

I congratulate you and encourage you to not only stick with your committment to yourself to Never Take Anymore Puffs but to also continue to learn all you can about this addiction we share.

I hope you get some useful information from the articles that I have linked for you.  Something you said tells me you have decided to be an ex-smoker.

If I think of myself smoking it's not because I want to but because I did , if that makes sense.

I feel safe with my quit and after 26 year of smoking 20 years spent trying to stop. All those quits lost because I never knew the rule of addiction, all those years wasted just because I did not understand what quitting smoking really meant .I've learnt my lesson if I live to be a hundred it would be as a non-smoker.

                                                       Free at last Ian

And at least in my case, I'd answer your main question as Yes because I found comfort with my decision to not smoke again very early on in my quit process.  Seems you have as well.  Will there still be the occasional challenge?  Quite possibly but you now have the tools, motivation and confidence to succeed.  Welcome back to the real you, well done!

Joe