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16 years ago 0 +0 / -0 3207

one gallon of wonderfuel please..or 4 liters..whatever is handy [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B]3/22/2007 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 300 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 12,000 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $2,040.00 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 42 [B]Hrs:[/B] 7 [B]Mins:[/B] 39 [B]Seconds:[/B] 49

16 years ago 0 +0 / -0 984

I could use some wonderfuel right about now! ;p I'm not glad your friend slipped but it'll be good for you down the road that you've got a close example of what can happen when you get complacent. Those stories are what keep my head screwed on tight and my commitment to staying quit front of mind. Reading here is the best therapy I know of! Thanks for your kind words and keep up the great quit. x T [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B]1/1/2007 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 380 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 8,740 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] �2,090.00 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 32 [B]Hrs:[/B] 8 [B]Mins:[/B] 16 [B]Seconds:[/B] 44

16 years ago 0 +0 / -0 38

Wonderfuel? I meant wonderful. [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B]12/30/2007 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 16 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 400 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] �110.00 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 2 [B]Hrs:[/B] 14 [B]Mins:[/B] 52 [B]Seconds:[/B] 29

16 years ago 0 +0 / -0 38

Todash You're a poet! Wonderfuel analogy. You talk about that bought the t-shirt feeling after 365 days. My mate gave up for a year, and, yes, had a cig to celebrate and show how he had cracked it, and , yes, I know you know where this is going, was back on within a week. Took him four more years to quit. Still he's off now and seven years on he's about 2,500 days ahead of me. But it goes to show, you can't let your guard down. Keep inspiring all us newbies. Dave [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B]12/30/2007 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 16 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 400 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] �110.00 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 2 [B]Hrs:[/B] 14 [B]Mins:[/B] 52 [B]Seconds:[/B] 11

16 years ago 0 +0 / -0 984

I can safely admit, here from the other side of day 365, that the [i]very[/i] dangerous 'been there, done that, bought the t-shirt' feeling grows each day, but not visibly. It's a sour spiralling hurricane in the pit of my guts, candy coated and waiting to blow in off the coast onto my lovely beach. I quit smoking over a year ago. It's in the past...or is it? Oh, I get it now. Smoking is the least of what it�s about. Symptoms of quitting smoking? Hah! Smoking [i]was[/i] the symptom. Damn. Just when my guard drops, when my confidence grows, those damned EMOTIONS come raging back, this time feeding the realization that every relationship I have has changed over the past year. How do you reorganize a lifetime of how you deal with people? I don't know, but it's been a trying few weeks. Maybe I expected the one year anniversary to wipe away something, clean the slate, make everything sunshine and roses again, but then like a bad dream, the junkie pounces, and strangles my sensibilities with chains of raw emotion. It's exhausting. My junkie doesn't tell me to smoke. My junkie tells me my life is less than I want it to be (read: crap), and I'm now destined to wait for an upswing. How long am I willing to wait? Until I knock the crap out of my junkie. This is no time for kid gloves. I'm seething right now but I'm ecstatic right now, but I'm mortified right now, but I'm crying, shrieking, focusing. Time to turn back inside. Time to race time on the treadmill. Time to...[i]be[/i]. The shadow of the junkie returns. This is when we are most at risk of failure. This is when we must hammer the ax deeper into the ice and keep on climbing. Bump. x T [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B]1/1/2007 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 379 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 8,717 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] �2,084.50 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 32 [B]Hrs:[/B] 7 [B]Mins:[/B] 36 [B]Seconds:[/B] 37

17 years ago 0 +0 / -0 2417

Wow! Great analogy! [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B]1/8/2007 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 301 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 4,515 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $1,264.20 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 27 [B]Hrs:[/B] 22 [B]Mins:[/B] 7 [B]Seconds:[/B] 18

17 years ago 0 +0 / -0 3875

Yes, brilliant as usual Todash! Love your style! :) [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B]3/5/2007 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 245 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 6,125 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $2,584.75 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 29 [B]Hrs:[/B] 23 [B]Mins:[/B] 22 [B]Seconds:[/B] 2

17 years ago 0 +0 / -0 3207

Todash, Now THAT'S what I've been missing from you. Beautifully written. Thanks for taking the time. and 2 stubborn? Congrats on that year (and then some)!!!!!! [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B]3/22/2007 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 228 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 9,120 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $1,550.40 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 31 [B]Hrs:[/B] 20 [B]Mins:[/B] 29 [B]Seconds:[/B] 29

17 years ago 0 +0 / -0 984

Double WOOHOO! Anyone have a spare ice axe? I'm going up again! x T [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B]1/1/2007 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 308 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 7,084 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] �1,694.00 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 25 [B]Hrs:[/B] 16 [B]Mins:[/B] 11 [B]Seconds:[/B] 11

17 years ago 0 +0 / -0 154

Fabulous Analogy! This is the mindset I adopted and it has carried me through thus far- Quitting is exactly what you make of it in your own mind. If you think you can't do it, nothing on God's green earth will make it happen- If you think it is too hard, then dammit, it's going to be too hard. But if you think of it as just putting that smoking abomination down and dousing it with water and that's it- well that will be it. Its not hard- all you have to do is stop- like it is written below. Keep going fellow quitters, I promise it gets easier!! ;) And lets try to keep this attitude blazing here at the SSC, it rocks!! [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B]10/9/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 392 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 4,312 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $1,387.68 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 25 [B]Hrs:[/B] 20 [B]Mins:[/B] 38 [B]Seconds:[/B] 5

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