my names bogbott!!!

Hi Jan, Thinking of you and sending those positive vibes across the miles. You CAN do this! Lolly. :) [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 11/25/2004 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 497 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 17,418 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] �2485 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 69 [B]Hrs:[/B] 5 [B]Mins:[/B] 46 [B]Seconds:[/B] 57

One Year Today

Congratulations Jan!!! Lolly. :) [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 11/25/2004 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 497 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 17,418 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] �2485 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 69 [B]Hrs:[/B] 5 [B]Mins:[/B] 47 [B]Seconds:[/B] 47

04/03/2006 Stats Parade

:blush: :p Late as usual!!! Lolly. :)

Today is the day!!!

It's the first day of the rest of your great new life!!!! Go for it and stray strong! You will be FREE!!! Lolly. :) [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 11/25/2004 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 501 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 17,539 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] �2505 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 69 [B]Hrs:[/B] 17 [B]Mins:[/B] 21 [B]Seconds:[/B] 3

5 - 0 - Oh!

:) Oh! My! It�s 500days!!! It�s so hard to believe after 40 years of heavy smoking! I�ve been not been posting on site, on a regular basis, for quite a while now. I read now and again and occasionally post a �Congratulations� to one of my friends from way back when!!! A few days ago, I realized that I was approaching 500 days quit! Wow! That amazed me! It seems such a huge number, but there are so many more people on site with many more days, and most of them helped me to get here!!!! I just want to say �Hi� to all the Mods and to all the folk who remember me....I will be grateful forever for your gift of life. Now I can say, �Last year at this time I was 4 months quit.....I remember how hard it was!� I do not really know how I made it through....well yes I do...it was attitude and this site....Stay Positive, and if you can�t make it, fake it!!!! I�ve been reading a few new quitters� posts. One of the things which fascinates new quitters (and not so new,) is why older quitters keep posting on site or keep in touch with SSC. Do we need the site to keep us smoke-free? Not really! Do we want to help new quitters? Yes, usually! Do we still get smoking thoughts? If we are honest, yes we do, but we can laugh them off after such a long time! Does it REALLY get better? It most certainly does!!!! It is sooooooo worth all the effort! Please hang in there. What motivates us to keep visiting the site? Often it is just the realization that our lives were saved by the site and the wonderful people here! Right throughout your first year of quitting, you will be faced with challenges, some of which sneak up on you unexpectedly. Take a huge breath, try to remember that first Hell Week, and fight off the Nicodemon! The second year is sooo much easier. They say it takes 2 years for weight and all the other things to fall into line after a quit. I�m certainly finding it so much easier now, but I remember those first days as if they were yesterday. Would I want to repeat them....NEVER! My Mantra was always....NEVER LOOK BACK, THE FUTURE IS AHEAD!!!!! Well I�m now in that future and it is fantastic! I look back only to remind myself how great it is to be FREE!!!! Hang in there people!!! You can do it!

The Junkie Within

Hi Lady, BTW. Many Congratulations for the Hall of Fame!!!! I'm at 500 days, and I can tell you those days still come around now and again. The good thing is they come around less often now. The main time I get this feeling is when I have completed a particularly difficult thing, whether it be digging the garden or working out something on the computer. I find myself standing up and feeling I should be doing something, then I realise it's smoking! Having a cigarette was my reward at the end of every task. I think as we get farther down the road in our quits, we tend to stop rewarding ourselves for a bloody good quit! I know I did for a while, and those moments kept happening. Now I remember to give myself the odd reward just to satisfy the reward centres in the brain.........I promise you it works! As for owning your quit!!!! You have done that from day 1....if you remain strong, as you have, it is yours alone, no matter how often the inner junkie has a go! You are going through the normal stages and honesty is always the best policy either in private or here in public. It helps others to know what can lie down the road awhile! You have a great quit Lady. I hope you get some peace from that pesky Nicodemon soon! Lolly. :) [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 11/25/2004 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 500 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 17,519 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] �2500 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 69 [B]Hrs:[/B] 15 [B]Mins:[/B] 26 [B]Seconds:[/B] 41

420 DAYS OR 60 WEEKS FOR THE UNSMOKEABLES

What a fantastic group the Unsmokeables are...........just look at the success rate! It's so amazing and wonderful, as is each one of you! 500 days will be here before you know it.....thanks for all your kind wishes! Congratulations and love from Lolly. :) [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 11/25/2004 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 500 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 17,519 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] �2500 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 69 [B]Hrs:[/B] 15 [B]Mins:[/B] 23 [B]Seconds:[/B] 58

I AM AT THE BIG 5-0!!!

Pretty numbers 50!!!! I remember how fantastic it felt! Many Congratulations!!!! Lolly. :) [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 11/25/2004 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 500 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 17,519 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] �2500 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 69 [B]Hrs:[/B] 15 [B]Mins:[/B] 24 [B]Seconds:[/B] 24

HIt Day 14 Today ! ALRIGHTY THEN!!!!!!

Hi Christine, Be really proud to make it this far.......this is the hardest time, and it does get better!!! Congratulations!!! Lolly. :) [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 11/25/2004 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 500 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 17,519 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] �2500 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 69 [B]Hrs:[/B] 15 [B]Mins:[/B] 24 [B]Seconds:[/B] 37

5 - 0 - Oh!

Thanks so much everyone for the really kind wishes. It's kind of nice to be back....feels like coming home!!! I've only been away due to being exhausted with all our home improvements.....tiling a kitchen, creating a garden and building decking! France is still great and now discussing whether to become 'smoke-free in all public areas!' I'm so glad that some of the newer quitters have read too......it is soooo important to see that it CAN be done. It was not easy, Oh! No! but so doable and so worth it! Love to all....Lolly. :) [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 11/25/2004 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 501 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 17,557 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] �2505 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 69 [B]Hrs:[/B] 19 [B]Mins:[/B] 2 [B]Seconds:[/B] 21