Congratulations on continuing to make your choice to be done with smoking, keep making it! The money saved is always a great motivator and your determination and dedication is great cause for celebration, and it's great that you choose to share that with your children, your quitting is such an incredible gift that you keep giving them! :)

I, too, found myself eating more when I first quit because just like with the smoking, I was using it to fill boredom time or avoid something I didn't want to do. My mind let me tell myself I was doing it because I was physically addicted or it would help with stress, but all feeble lies upon reflection. All nicotine is already out of your system, it's a purely mental battle now and you are being successful! I found strength training to be a great way to put the extra calories to good use toward building muscle without too much strain on the cardiovascular system while it's already working on healing.