Hey Mr Ed Thanks for the celebration Thread.
From a few days ago and still in action today.
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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. [b]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.[/b] 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.
[i]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.)[/i]
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More CELEBRATION tomorrow because I like how I feel when I am celebrating. Besides it is way easier to hold my head up high as a person who no longer smokes and who just doesn't smoke when I am doing the "Snoopy Dance"
Ciao
Phillip :)
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B]2/17/2006
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 730
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 18,250
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $6,205.00
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 123 [B]Hrs:[/B] 18 [B]Mins:[/B] 33 [B]Seconds:[/B] 41