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$22,500.35
Amount Saved
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Days: 601 Hours: 12
Minutes: 17 Seconds: 6
Life Gained
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4369
Smoke Free Days
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87,380
Cigarettes Not Smoked
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$44,205.00
Amount Saved
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Days: 1058 Hours: 1
Minutes: 0 Seconds: 51
Life Gained
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5894
Smoke Free Days
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176,820
Cigarettes Not Smoked
Is fear why so many people find it so difficult to give up smoking?
How am I going to cope?
Will I enjoy life without my little friend?
Can I cope with losing my prop?
WELL LETS JUST STOP RIGHT THERE!
Giving up what!
It's the most powerful thing in the addiction's arsenal..........creating the illusion that somehow, and in some way we will be losing out, giving up something wonderful and that there will be a gap in our lives. That social occasions will be a disaster, that we won't enjoy food any more and a thousand other junkie thoughts and excuses that our hijacked brain will trick us into believing.
Stop thinking of stopping smoking as anything else other than receiving things!
It's like Christmas...................
Wonderful things, like time (that we used to spend in the rain or the cold feeding a chemical addiction), our sense of taste and smell, better lung function and circulation, money in our pockets and freedom from having to top up the drug in the system every time the half-life of nicotine passed.
And in my case, the satisfaction of having made it through another day with complete freedom from nicotine and just a little of my self-respect back.
But odd habits die hard (and horribly and probably of lung cancer so pun fully intended)...............if you must insist on giving up, then give up..........
Stinking clothes
Your daughter's tears as she smells the smoke on your clothes again
Your wife's look as you pretend that she has not caught you smoking again
Not being able to help your son at university as much as you want to because you are spending £250 a month on cigars
Your self respect as you make another excuse to sneak off and smoke instead of doing something with the family
On average, 15 years of life.
Trying to nail jelly to the ceiling............
And when you succeed in stopping smoking, and you will if you truly want to............................never forget that we are smokers who choose not to smoke...............and that one single puff of a cigar derailed my four year, my thousand day plus quit.
Love life and go for it!
Mad Englishman
P.S
Things to do before you die.
Take a great big lung busting sniff of an overflowing pub ashtray after a shower of rain..........
Drink milk that has gone off because your sense of smell is shot..............
Pick up a discarded fag end from the gutter and light it..............
Go out late at night because you have run out of smokes only to find the shops are all shut...............
Search the house late at night trying to find a packet with one left in it..................
Burn a hole in your favourite shirt.................
Lie to your family about not smoking...............
Wash your hands and clean your teeth incessantly so that no-one knows you are a smoker..................
Fight for breath half way up a Lakeland Fell as you fall behind your friends on a walk...............
Freeze to death as you are forced outside to smoke in the rain and the cold..................
Buy smokes instead of food................
Drop a lighted smoke in your crutch whilst driving...............
Cough up great lumps of god knows what....................
Fall asleep to the sound of burbling and wheezing...................
Choose to be a smoker who does not smoke before its too late.
