Wow, what a post!
Best wishes to you Midnight Blue. I will watch your progress with interest, a bit selfishly maybe because I am interested in wider health issues for me too. Take out the bit about going to the gym and eating healthily...and increase the chocolate and cookie eating to a permanent thing...and that's me!! I'm not sure it's an addiction, but possibly. But for the moment I'm concentrating on the smoking.
So you go girl...you can never have too many badasses in the world! X