glad to hear they are gone RDMan!! Great post N2k. It is very helpful-especially on a long holiday weekend! Thanx!

[quote]That's excellent X-Smoker. It's true. You made me remember an old adage. It went something like this: Watch your thoughts they become words. Watch your words they become actions. Watch your actions they become habits Watch your habits they become character Watch your character it becomes your destiny Thank U for sharing that info with me (Us) I'm starting to think you and I might be alot alike.[/quote] Wow ... what a blast from the past. It has been awhile since I evolved from X-Smoker to Breaking Free. In tune with ya chickie! [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 5/12/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 63 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 1,910 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $252 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 5 [B]Hrs:[/B] 8 [B]Mins:[/B] 34 [B]Seconds:[/B] 1

Riverdale Man, Glad to hear your doing better! Did you manage to start taking your breaks? Danielle __________________________ The SSC Support Team

BUMP Relieved now the relatives have gone. I can breath again. Phillip :blush: [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 2/17/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 198 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 3,972 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $1485 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 32 [B]Hrs:[/B] 8 [B]Mins:[/B] 48 [B]Seconds:[/B] 54

BUMP [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 2/17/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 170 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 3,400 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $1275 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 27 [B]Hrs:[/B] 16 [B]Mins:[/B] 56 [B]Seconds:[/B] 59

Bump [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 2/17/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 124 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 2,498 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $930 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 20 [B]Hrs:[/B] 8 [B]Mins:[/B] 31 [B]Seconds:[/B] 46

[img] http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies/happy/happy0192.gif[/img] Marie said �killer of nicotine� in French (I think!?!~lol) For the record, 'pig latin' IS my second language! [img]http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies/animal/animal0026.gif [/img] However, for sexy exotic languages like French and Portuguese I use an online language translator ;p *I just felt a dopamine rush from laughing* Ah! That reminds me of something else (I once read) that could be added to this thread. [b]Jokes activate brain reward region[/b] [u]Humor triggers release of feel good chemical dopamine.[/u] There's truth in the maxim 'laughter is a drug'. (laughter is the best medicine.) A comic cartoon fired up the same brain center as a shot of cocaine, researchers are reporting. A team at Stanford University in California asked lab mates, spouses and friends to select the wittiest newspaper cartoons from a portfolio. They showed the winning array to 16 volunteers while peering inside their heads by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The cartoons activated the same reward circuits in the brain that are tickled by cocaine, money or a pretty face, the neuroscientists found. One brain region in particular, the nucleus accumbens, lit up seconds after a rib-tickler but remained listless after a lacklustre cartoon. The nucleus accumbens is awash with the feel good chemical dopamine. The region's buzz may explain the euphoria that follows a good joke, the team suggests. "Intuitively, it makes sense," agrees Bill Kelley, who studies humor at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. It makes sense to me too! How about you? --- Hey WAY up there to Hummy :) I don't think I've had the pleasure of reading Rusty's post on relaxation. I would like to see it sometime. --- My oh my Free~ you sure have evolved from X-Smoker to Breaking Free to Free. It doesn't get much better than that! (However, between your name updates and Mc's "imposter" I'm not sure who's who anymore~lol) --- *grin*@Phillip I can see your stress level rapidly dropping. --- Hi gonnadoit, thank you. Girl, I know you are under a lot of stress with your daughter and I want to compliment you on your coping skills! It seems to me, you came into this nosmo journey with 's

CJ and correen~Welcome to both of you. I'm running a little short on time at the moment so I'm going to BUMP this thread for you both to read. Stay strong! All the best~ N2k [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 8/20/2005 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 326 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 7,189 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $1630 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 31 [B]Hrs:[/B] 0 [B]Mins:[/B] 21 [B]Seconds:[/B] 24

[quote] A comic cartoon fired up the same brain center as a shot of cocaine, researchers are reporting. [/quote] So, now my odd but active imagination has wandered to a place where people are breaking into newspaper stands to get the comics. And the jails are filled w/ trembling folks begging the guards, "Please, man, just one quick look at 'Bill the Cat'..." And comedians sulking around back alleys selling their jokes in 'Dime Bags'... Sorry. Couldn't help myself. It's a sickness. (Will I someday be saying, "Don't joke, okay? It's bad for you..." (Stop the madness.) Cold Turkeys just say NO! mc [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 8/31/2005 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 370 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 5,555 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $1480 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 36 [B]Hrs:[/B] 0 [B]Mins:[/B] 50 [B]Seconds:[/B] 29

Okay so, something has left folks w/the impression that I speak languages other than English. This is completely false. If someone has been posting here in other languages & using my moniker, they are imposters & should be shot on sight. I have, at this moment, deputized each & every one of you who venture onto this thread. Beware: the imposters are crafty & will spare no attractor to wield their will. Consider yourselves forewarned...[Aarrgh...] Yeah, whatever. Anyway, don't smoke, okay? It's bad for you. Cold Turkeys are often imitated; Never replicated. mc [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 8/31/2005 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 368 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 5,534 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $1472 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 35 [B]Hrs:[/B] 21 [B]Mins:[/B] 35 [B]Seconds:[/B] 24