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17 years ago 0 +0 / -0 11

33 years I smoked, and at one time I liked it too. As the years progressed I tried not to think about what it was doing to my health. Common sense finally won out. Here's to sheer stubborn willpower...and lots of it. Don [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 1/15/2005 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 722 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 15,903 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $4693 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 124 [B]Hrs:[/B] 9 [B]Mins:[/B] 6 [B]Seconds:[/B] 35

17 years ago 0 +0 / -0 115

YAY! You are so close to a year even I can almost feel it coming! RAWK ON!! Peace Dawn [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 12/31/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 6 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 118 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $27 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 0 [B]Hrs:[/B] 12 [B]Mins:[/B] 40 [B]Seconds:[/B] 53

17 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1150

You're absolutely right. I loved it too. Just not gonna. period. And it's not pretty - it's a fight to the death. Be tough and walk away having fought hard for the title of hero of which you deserve. period. [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 12/29/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 8 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 86 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $40 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 0 [B]Hrs:[/B] 19 [B]Mins:[/B] 41 [B]Seconds:[/B] 14

17 years ago 0 +0 / -0 85

Rob..are you a Capricorn? You seem to have embraced this quit the way I have..totally irrefutably..done with cigs..the same way we embraced them once we taught ourselves how to smoke. I am totally convinced that I became an addict in the womb. My mother smoked when she was pregnant. I had to go cold turkey when I was born, and finally found what I'd been missing all my life when I was fifteen. SNAP! That easy. Addiction is not a nice thing. I recently read Frey's book, "A Million Tiny Peices (sic)" or whatever, and was totally laughing over his dismissal of tobacco as an addiction! Bwaa Haa Haa. Talk to Keith Richards who gave up smack, but can't stop smoking. (And isn't he a pretty little thing)! Actually, I look quite a bit like him after smoking for forty years, thank you very much! Rambling aren't I? Oh well, the jist of it all is..stop smoking, be kind to other people, and eat enough cheese. Cheers. [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 10/3/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 96 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 2,906 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $792 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 12 [B]Hrs:[/B] 16 [B]Mins:[/B] 9 [B]Seconds:[/B] 59

17 years ago 0 +0 / -0 3908

Rob The temptation will always be there but like you I will NEVER light up again...... And there are lots more like us! Phil [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 8/8/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 153 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 3,222 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] �803.25 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 30 [B]Hrs:[/B] 16 [B]Mins:[/B] 24 [B]Seconds:[/B] 53

17 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1985

To Rob and all the rest who have posted to this thread My intentions are only positive for you and I don't expect any of you to light up. You have come too far and are free of it now. If you ever think about smoking again and then smoke again, I am sure the first few will be quite awful. It will take you some time to start to enjoy puffing at in again. It is a rather disgusting habit isn't it? Remember how it was when you first started, you probably got dizzy and had to force yourself for the first couple to three weeks to smoke another and another. Think along those lines, you will not be going back to something that you once loved. The cheese has moved and we along with it. Good luck to all of you, don't falter as you already have done it however you may not have fully realized it yet. [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 1/22/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 351 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 5,276 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $1842.75 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 65 [B]Hrs:[/B] 8 [B]Mins:[/B] 31 [B]Seconds:[/B] 17

17 years ago 0 +0 / -0 8760

Rob47, Plain and simple! Very direct and truthful post! And obviously it works, nobody can argue with you there. 322 days and rounding the 1 year mark! Congrats! Thank you for sharing. Danielle ______________________ The SSC Support Team

17 years ago 0 +0 / -0 506

One only needs to check out some recent posts to see how easy it is to reengage this thing...no matter that years have gone by. No judgment here...I fight the thought just about every day. I can relate...but just remember...when you start smoking again- you are smoking again and you start over again. I broke my leg this fall...then I had to have emergency surgery to remove my gall bladder. Bad things happen in life. I was so happy to not once think about smoking while in the hospital. That was something for me to hold onto. If I had that on top of all the other crap....ugh. See- even I can be positive about this! Still, I could jump back into smoking in the blink of an eye. Almost a year for me. And then what? Who knows. Hopefully I'll remain determined. It's a scary thing to see people throw away their quits....but I get it. There is something to learn in it, though. [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 2/18/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 323 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 12,940 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $2907 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 53 [B]Hrs:[/B] 22 [B]Mins:[/B] 24 [B]Seconds:[/B] 25

17 years ago 0 +0 / -0 506

That's it. That's the only reason I'm still quit. Nothing cute, no nice mantra. Smoked like a chimney my whole adult life....and I liked it..therefore just about anything can be a trigger...how do you avoid these triggers when you lit up every 10 minutes for the past 30 years???? Not pretty. not nice. Being an addict is not nice. Most of the time it's just stubborn will. But....I'm still here. [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 2/18/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 322 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 12,900 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $2898 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 53 [B]Hrs:[/B] 18 [B]Mins:[/B] 29 [B]Seconds:[/B] 35

17 years ago 0 +0 / -0 506

Maggie- no....I'm a Sag But I got a chuckle out of the in the womb thing- my mom wasn't about to let childbirth get in the way of smoking either. Thank God she didn't breast feed us! I was given Dramamine for every road trip because of "motion sickness"...of course my puking had nothing to do with mom and dad smoking like chimneys with the windows closed and the heat on!!! lol. No wonder I took to the cigs. Smoking was such a "natural" part of some of our lives that it's a wonder we were able to quit at all. I know a lot of people who can't even consider it, say nothing about doing it. They are quite shocked that I have. It really is one day at a time, for me. [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 2/18/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 324 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 12,977 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $2916 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 54 [B]Hrs:[/B] 2 [B]Mins:[/B] 8 [B]Seconds:[/B] 48

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