Just bumping this thread for the read.
The information and support that helped me so much might very well help someone else.
Simply read and see the depth of knowledge and information contained in this site.
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[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B]2/17/2006
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 723
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 18,075
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $6,145.50
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 122 [B]Hrs:[/B] 14 [B]Mins:[/B] 19 [B]Seconds:[/B] 47
Sparky this is great!
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H. = Honesty. Honesty was and still is a journey for me. When I first came here I �honestly� thought I was ready to quit. Then came the boredom of the quit, the thrill of look at what I am doing. It just became a struggle. It was easier to smoke than fight the craves. What I lacked was the courage and the education of what quitting was all about. I quit several times and each time I honestly wanted to quit, but I never wanted to really quit for me. I hated the word addict. I mean I really HATED it!!! I had to get honest with what I was and am and always will be � I am addicted to cigarettes and for me to stay quit I am never to have one puff ever.
In the past I would smoke one or half of one and go on for a while and then pretty soon I would smoke again and then again and then I was back to smoking. I honestly know today than I can never have that one puff again.
O. = Open Mind I had to have an open mind to what people were telling me. I was not unique when it came to my quit. There was nothing I was going though that others hadn�t gone though before me. I had to have an open mind in order to �hear� those helpful words. When one has an open mind many wonderful suggestions can filter their way into the mind and soul.
W. = Willingness. Willingness is the key to a quit. I had to be willing to hear. I had to be willing to follow suggestions. I had to be willing to go though withdrawal. I had to be willing to listen to my doctor. I had to be willing to trust and move forward each day with the commitment to stay smoke free.
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Thanks
Phillip
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B]2/17/2006
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 723
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 18,075
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $6,145.50
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 122 [B]Hrs:[/B] 14 [B]Mins:[/B] 25 [B]Seconds:[/B] 38
So I am still celebrating and it is down to 6 more days! TADA!
I want to simply repeat some of what I said in this thread at the very beginning.
:)
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Persistance, Pro-action, Passion...
A few of the possible actions that have got me through.
Persistant changing of action was what got me through. For the ability to be able to do that I am so grateful. I am so glad that as human beings we had the ability to choose.
Just another few days and I will be just that much farther away from the world I lived in all those 700 plus plus plus days ago. Imagine 35 plus years of smoking ... longer than any other aspect of my life and yet, through persistant choice, I was able to change all of that.
Congratulations to all of you quitters no matter if you are contemplating or you have thousands of days behind you. Quitting smoking is the best thing that I ever did for my life. To those of you on this quit journey I extend my hand and honour you for tackling a task that can be daunting and challenging but at the same time, life affirming, life saving and totally fulfilling.
Just 14 more days and I will be at yet another major milestone. Sorry I don't get a chance to post very often and I do watch all the new and old quitters coming and going. I do feel and share the agony and the ecstacy of what happens on the journey to freedom from the addiction to nicotine.
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At this moment so much of this, my last quit, is really about choice and what I choose to do.
Bon Chance One and ALL! Good luck and be strong.
Despite everything I am still counting down the days and still sharing what is happening to me in the big quit adventure.
Cheers
Peace Out
Phillip :)
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B]2/17/2006
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 723
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 18,075
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $6,145.50
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 122 [B]Hrs:[/B] 14 [B]Mins:[/B] 32 [B]Seconds:[/B] 35
The days move by faster and faster. Two Years on the Horizon.
Still celebrating and still totally proud of the choices I have made to stay quit.
Yes SammiJo celebrating with decorum and dignity (NOT). Despite all of whatever might come from the accomodating Brits rapaging and bludgeoning from far and wide.
Lilly where are you??? we need a psychiatric nurse for sure.
Yes Kiwi I am still swimming, almost everyday and booked for competion as well (MSO). My lungs are healing day by day.
Thanks to Sparky and Windy and Faith and Susie (how very chipper, this wee blue bird) and Misty Moonlight and Rob47 (res ipsa loquitur, what could possible speak for itself ... perhaps actions) and Changing and Tresa and Nonic and Marie (! One Day at a TIME !) and Rusty (thanks, gratitude and serenity always) and Josie (perhaps you need to clear off that fridge door???)
To all others thanks for the barbs because they simply point the direction and the quality to be set as the standard certainly of graciousness, kindness and understanding. Apologies sent out all round as seen far deep into this now embellished thread.
Peace Joy Love
More celebration to follow for sure.
Phillip ;)
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[b][i]You must be the change you want to see in the world.[i][b]
[b]Mahatma Gandhi[/b]
[i]Indian political and spiritual leader (1869 - 1948)[/i]
:)
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[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B]2/17/2006
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 724
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 18,100
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $6,154.00
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 122 [B]Hrs:[/B] 18 [B]Mins:[/B] 26 [B]Seconds:[/B] 55
Still ALIVE
Still CELEBRATING
Still TAKING IT ALL "ONE DAY AT A TIME" thanks Marie
Today was a good day ... I didn't die, I didn't burst into flames (no matter how many flames I could see burning around me) or even better than not bursting into flames I didn't smoke. I didn't even think about smoking.
In fact I actually learned something ... and that had to do with how for so many years, 36 to be exact, I could actually cave into whatever was happening around me by smoking. The fatal addict behaviour of thinking I could control whatever was going on around me by chemically altering my state. Well today I got to choose something different. Something totally different than what I would do as a child smoking at 13 years old under all kinds of peer pressure. Something totally different than what I would do as an adult: afraid, brow beaten, put down, pushed aside, bullied. Today was different I didn't smoke I just held my head up high and continued on my way as a person who simply is not a smoker.
Thanks Rusty for the quote below. I hope you haven't taken yourself out completely, your support, care and voice have been invaluable to me.
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Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
attributed to:
(Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.)
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More celebration tomorrow and through to the rolling around of the calendar.February 17th just around the corner.
Cheers see you all tomorrow
Phillip
:)
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B]2/17/2006
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 725
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 18,125
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $6,162.50
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 122 [B]Hrs:[/B] 22 [B]Mins:[/B] 7 [B]Seconds:[/B] 27
Glad to be alive...
Glad to be whole and health
Glad and totally GRATEFUL that I can breath
Cheers
Phillip :)
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B]2/17/2006
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 725
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 18,125
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $6,162.50
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 122 [B]Hrs:[/B] 22 [B]Mins:[/B] 8 [B]Seconds:[/B] 11
Duffis ... Pete ... WOW
Congratulations. Awesome!
Three years and two years how wonderful and inspirational.
Cheers, a toast to you both.
Phillip :)
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B]2/17/2006
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 726
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 18,150
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $6,171.00
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 123 [B]Hrs:[/B] 2 [B]Mins:[/B] 2 [B]Seconds:[/B] 19
Mr Ed A February 2006 Knight of the Empty Ashtray!
Congratulations. Awesome!
Two years how wonderful and inspirational.
Cheers, a toast to you.
Phillip :)
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B]2/17/2006
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 726
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 18,150
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $6,171.00
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 123 [B]Hrs:[/B] 2 [B]Mins:[/B] 2 [B]Seconds:[/B] 33
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