Hey Kev, Funny post...when Ellen Degeneres quit smoking she also did a bit on the addiction. She was a social smoker...she only smoked when she was around her friends or in a social setting. Then she read Allen Carrs book and made a statement somthing like "I only smoked when I was with my friends. What is that about? If they were sitting around hitting themselves in the head with a 2x4, would I join in? Smoking is about the same thing." It is good for nothing. new me [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B]5/26/2007 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 149 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 3,576 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $745.00 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 20 [B]Hrs:[/B] 13 [B]Mins:[/B] 43 [B]Seconds:[/B] 16

Good one, Kev. So true! [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B]5/13/2007 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 162 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 3,240 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $1,782.00 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 16 [B]Hrs:[/B] 5 [B]Mins:[/B] 52 [B]Seconds:[/B] 18

Good reading here, I still want to know what It Support is ?? have a great day Tresa [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B]8/8/2002 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 1901 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 38,020 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $6,653.50 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 268 [B]Hrs:[/B] 1 [B]Mins:[/B] 3 [B]Seconds:[/B] 53

Good post JDK! [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B]2/13/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 616 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 18,480 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] �4,620.00 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 98 [B]Hrs:[/B] 23 [B]Mins:[/B] 45 [B]Seconds:[/B] 17

HA! Interesting way of looking at the addiction, yet so true! Josie, Support Specialist

This is one to print and post on the frig. Absolutely classic! Thanks for posting it Kevin and congratulations on your trip to the beach. :p [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B]9/21/2007 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 31 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 775 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $193.75 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 4 [B]Hrs:[/B] 2 [B]Mins:[/B] 54 [B]Seconds:[/B] 15

I thought you might like this quote from a certain Stephen Fry, presenter, actor and comedian. Here he is writing about our favourite subject..smoking. Although a general glance may have you lusting after parsnips! :) " At fifteen I find a new substance to feed the ravenous beast within. Tobacco. A cigarette is the perfect kind of perfect pleasure, Wilde said. It is exquisite and leaves one unsatisfied. I thought at first that this was just Oscar talking all pretty and silly. But of course he got it right. A cigarette is the perfect instrument of addiction. Perfect. It has no function, no point, no quality other than to make itself needful to the smoker. It doesn�t taste pleasant, it doesn�t modify mood (except inasmuch as it quells the need for itself) it doesn�t offer texture, elation, hallucination, bouquet, nourishment, calorific value, anything. And ultimately, as Wilde pointed out, it never satisfies: it is always necessary to have another. Imagine that one day someone hit himself lightly on the head with a parsnip. Instead of stopping (for this is a foolish thing to do) he carried on doing it. When he eventually did stop he went about his business but discovered, much to his surprise, that he had a sudden unconquerable urge to hit himself lightly on the head with a parsnip all over again. So he did. And the more he did it, the more he needed to do it. The act of doing it gave him a tiny surge of joy, a little rush of pleasure that had to be elicited, never mind what a twazzock he looked, parsnipping himself on the head all day. Smoking is no less stupid than that. In fact it is a whole bicycle-shed more stupid, because it�s smelly, unsociable, carcinogenic etc etc etc. But the principle is the same: smoking has absolutely no point other than to stop the misery of not smoking. Smokers claim that it aids concentration, soothes the nerves and so on, but we know really that it only does those things because it�s tobacco addiction that messes with concentration and jangles the nerves in the first place. Tapping your head lightly with a parsnip would aid concentration too if not doing it made you all jumpy and desperate. " [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B]7/12/2007 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 102 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 2,550 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] �428.40 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 12 [B]Hrs:[/B] 19 [B]Mins:[/B] 13 [B]Seconds:[/B] 23