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15 years ago 0 +0 / -0 84

Oh Wow and Golly...

This Made Me Jolly

So Thanks a bunch

Cos this packs a punch!

And That Ali is cool...he knows his stuff

Life's so neat when we don't take a puff!

thanks for the awesome poem.. ...major smile here!!!!

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 2/7/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 98
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 2,940
Amount Saved: $1,249.50
Life Gained:
Days: 11 Hrs: 5 Mins: 0 Seconds: 58

Quit Meter

$7,238.40

Amount Saved
Quit Meter

Days: 799 Hours: 22

Minutes: 32 Seconds: 54

Life Gained
Quit Meter

5568

Smoke Free Days
Quit Meter

5,568

Cigarettes Not Smoked

This site has helped me tremendously - I have been a non-smoker for 12 years....it hasn't been easy every day but absolutely worth it....I've had 4,022 smoke free days -I saved $5,228.60 in wasted funds, I saved 528 days/1 hour/18 minutes and 3 seconds of my life....4022 cigarettes not smoked! I was a smoker from 12 years old to 50 years old....if I can do it - anyone can!

15 years ago 0 +0 / -0 901

okay , here's a little poem for you ;

it's been 98 days

since sassy had a smoke

we're sure proud of you

and that's no joke

=====================

and yes sirree

i do think poems should rhyme

muhamad ali taught me that

and it stands the test of time

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 3/12/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 64
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 1,920
Amount Saved: $576.00
Life Gained:
Days: 10 Hrs: 12 Mins: 54 Seconds: 40

15 years ago 0 +0 / -0 84

Good for you! And you don't mess around with the bold type either! I spent the first few days of my quit crying and wondering how i was going to get through.....everything....without a cigarette....how can i make a phone-call, answer mail, make a decision, walk to the bus after work...how do i blink without a cigarette? So i agree about the 'freeing' part...you no longer have to figure out how to smoke and/or cover up the smoke and/or desire to smoke...i remember standing out in the blinding snow to have a cigarette - 'would walk a mile for a camel'. I am proud of you and your family is proud of you...being in awe is a good thing....Congratulations!

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 2/7/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 98
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 2,940
Amount Saved: $1,249.50
Life Gained:
Days: 11 Hrs: 4 Mins: 55 Seconds: 26

Quit Meter

$7,238.40

Amount Saved
Quit Meter

Days: 799 Hours: 22

Minutes: 32 Seconds: 54

Life Gained
Quit Meter

5568

Smoke Free Days
Quit Meter

5,568

Cigarettes Not Smoked

15 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1

Hi....I smoked for 35 years and was a die-hard smoker. I was the type of person who vehemently, fanatically opposed the progress of non-smokers and wanted to go back to the "good old days", where you could smoke everywhere and everyone accepted smoking and for that matter, practically EVERYONE smoked. The longest I had ever gone without a cigarette was 6 maybe 7 hours. Now I am 15 days smoke-free, it still hard for even ME to comprehend. WOW! My family is still in awe. Some members of my family told me that they NEVER thought I'd quit. That I would die with a cigarette in my hand. There is such a freedom to being a non-smoker! Now I don't have to leave a conversation or party or whatever to "go have a cigarette". I don't have to go out in the (rain, snow, sleet, hail, wind) to have a cigarette. I don't have to hide my smoking from people who I believe will think little of me that I am a smoker. I feel better, healthier, don't get winded when going up a flight of stairs. I don't have to plan my social occassions by, "will I be able to get away for a smoke" or "will there be somewhere to smoke". Flight to Europe...."forget about it", didn't think I could go that long without a smoke, without going crazy. But now................................I CAN!!!!!!

15 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1890

Whew... glad you cleared that one up, Sassy.

"That's my chair, b***ch!!" - as my old theatre prof, Harry Hill, used to say on entering any room while trampling on scholarly toes as he zoomed in on the best chair available....

Now, he died of heart failure at 67 and he never stopped smoking...

patrick (proud of you also)

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 1/18/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 118
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 2,950
Amount Saved: $1,327.50
Life Gained:
Days: 22 Hrs: 0 Mins: 25 Seconds: 36

15 years ago 0 +0 / -0 84

ha ha.....Billy Collins is still a non-smoker (i know this because he was my professor in college and we keep in touch..his poem The Best Cigarette is actually about his LAST cigarette - he is a huge non-smoker now and very proud of me) I only wrote 2 poems to my Marlboro's....saying goodbye, etc.etc...but i am over that now and no more Odes to Bad Stuff...nice to know that we are all such big supporters of one another...nothing slips by.....tough crowd. ;)

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 2/7/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 98
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 2,940
Amount Saved: $1,249.50
Life Gained:
Days: 11 Hrs: 4 Mins: 51 Seconds: 27

Quit Meter

$7,238.40

Amount Saved
Quit Meter

Days: 799 Hours: 22

Minutes: 32 Seconds: 54

Life Gained
Quit Meter

5568

Smoke Free Days
Quit Meter

5,568

Cigarettes Not Smoked

15 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1890

Sassy! Don't freak me out with the romanticism about the smokes... Wax lyrical about your cleaner, more flexible lungs. Wherefore Billy nowadays?!

Patrick

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 1/18/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 118
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 2,950
Amount Saved: $1,327.50
Life Gained:
Days: 22 Hrs: 0 Mins: 18 Seconds: 28

15 years ago 0 +0 / -0 763

Except for my quit attempts I smoked pretty steadily for about 27 years. All in all, I feel better. I don't cough anymore. Which I especially notice at night. I just got over a sore throat a few weeks ago and I didn't get as sick as I would usually get.

Quitting smoking is such a sense of accomplishment, because it isn't an easy thing to do. And being from Canada, you know the price of cigarettes up here. Nearly ten dollars a pack for some brands!!!!! I thought I was getting a bargain at $8.25 a pack.

But money isn't the most important thing here, your health is. And you're doing a great thing! Congratulations on 17 days smoke free. That's awesome.

Cheers, Jan

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 1/27/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 109
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 2,725
Amount Saved: $899.25
Life Gained:
Days: 12 Hrs: 10 Mins: 12 Seconds: 19

15 years ago 0 +0 / -0 84

except for a few brief years...i smoked for 35 years...always Marlboro...i have stopped cold turkey and am on day #98..i feel better than i ever did before (yes, i still miss it) my hair looks better - skin looks smoother - i can run to the bus without being winded...food taste better and worse, smells are stronger and i have already added 11 days to my life. each day is still a test but i am passing it - this will be the first summer in a long time that i am not trying to light a cigarette on a windy beach... as Billy Collins said in "The Best Cigarette"...."...How bittersweet these punctuations of flame and gesture..." To stop smoking has been the most difficult and the most rewarding decision i have made as i approach my 50th year on this earth.

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 2/7/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 98
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 2,940
Amount Saved: $1,249.50
Life Gained:
Days: 11 Hrs: 4 Mins: 12 Seconds: 6

Quit Meter

$7,238.40

Amount Saved
Quit Meter

Days: 799 Hours: 22

Minutes: 32 Seconds: 54

Life Gained
Quit Meter

5568

Smoke Free Days
Quit Meter

5,568

Cigarettes Not Smoked

15 years ago 0 +0 / -0 855

Hello Puff no More, i smoked for 35 years and have been quit almost 6 years now, my quit was a struggle but so worth it, i just dident want to grow old and spend i old years not being able to breath.The struggles of quitting are worth it, Do it and stay quit :) Stay here read and post, let the people here help you , we all ride the same Roller Coaster hang Tough Tresa

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 8/8/2002
Smoke-Free Days: 2107
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 50,568
Amount Saved: $8,849.40
Life Gained:
Days: 301 Hrs: 4 Mins: 33 Seconds: 53

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