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Day 29 Got through yesterday, stressy and fun. My partners birthday always a big thing with cocktail party, dinner and then dessert and all the fun things of a party. Doing this smoke free was a bit like being naked on the subway. AND I got through. There were a couple of places where I thought oh I can just go join them out there and that was my addict brain talking. There was no way in the world I would have been able to stand outside with them and not smoke. I stayed inside, swooshed home from the restaurant and dove into a swell piece of cake. The celebration was more awsome for me because I was not smoking. Coming up to 30 days and that is the celebration for me, 45, 60, 90 100, 120 the odometer keeps rolling. I am so grateful for the quit meter I am totally jazzed by the fact, the image of my adding time , days onto my life. Hooray for life. More later, I have a full day today at work and then off to the theatre, dinner and more social stuff. I feel that I am stepping back into a more social role, a role that I was tentative to start again as so much of socializing has been around smoking. Although when I think of it I would not and can not in many cases smoke inside and so smoking has become illicit, a secretive, outside kind of thing. HMMMMMMM. More Later Phillip getting through day by day. :) [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 2/17/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 29 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 588 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $217.5 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 4 [B]Hrs:[/B] 19 [B]Mins:[/B] 3 [B]Seconds:[/B] 47
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Those constant reminders to celebrate! Are they reminders that I want to smoke? Are they reminders of what I am doing for myself? Are they reminders to enjoy the time I have here in earth rather than spending that time smoking? I know that I have much more time. I know that I would rather spend the time celebrating my accomplishment and my ability to choose. I know that I find it easier and easier to say "ah, that was my mind saying: "cave, smoke", and right there is my heart saying "hey there give me a break and just keep quitting"!" I t is all getting easier. So all in all it feels easier today that it has in the past. I feel freer today than I have. I know that my emotions are still up close to the top and that little things can trigger the emotional part to come up. There are moments here reading on this site that I read and go that is simply giving over your own power, that is not how I would do it, that is not how I am with my life, my quit. We are each individual and what I see here is a direct reflection of what I would see, for the most part in the outside world. SOOOOOOO the information is let it go let the others go their way and they will do as they do and I must keep to what I have set to do. Keep my word to myself and keep on giving myself the experience of living without consuming what is in smoke. As long as I am putting on foot in front of the other, as long as I am staying on the quit path I can celebrate and be joyful! Thanks Phillip :) :confuse: :) [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 2/17/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 31 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 632 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $232.5 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 5 [B]Hrs:[/B] 3 [B]Mins:[/B] 37 [B]Seconds:[/B] 22
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Actually on Friday I did order a new suit. Its TYR and is I must say quite dashing having lost 2 inches on my waist and several more on my hips. My thighs are in just too much pain to even think of if they a less jiggly. OMG That was all just too much information. And I am so glad that as part of this quit I planned ahead, and I started swimming before I quit just so I could see, feel and sense the enormous change in how I am physically. The added benefit to the swimming is that it is a huge cardio workout as well as very gentle (or at least more gentle that weight lifting) and I tend to stomp or shuffle as I walk and oh man I don't even run for the bus. When I hit 50 I will actually be able to run for the bus; because, now and in the past I said that I don't run for the bus because from very early on in my smoking career I couldn't run for anything without feeling like I was winded and just plain falling down. I must say that the writting/studies/stop smoking sites are actually correct and that with 30 days of quitting the respiratory system is well on its way to healing and lung capacity is shifting. Hooray! [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 2/17/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 30 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 611 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $225 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 4 [B]Hrs:[/B] 23 [B]Mins:[/B] 35 [B]Seconds:[/B] 19
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30 days. Now that is something one whole month! I have a bit of a hard time believing that I have actually done this. Cold turkey and all. There are times when I tell myself that it was just yesterday and that I have made no progress and then when I look at this as 30 days of no cigarettes, the number of days I have added to my life, the number of cigarettes I have not smoked, then I get impressed. [color=Red][size=4][b]Riverdale Man's Glove Compartment Todays Date: 3/19/2006 My Milage: My Quit Date: 2/17/2006 Smoke-Free Days: 30 Cigarettes Not Smoked: 610 Amount Saved: $225 Life Gained: Days: 4 Hrs: 23 Mins: 22 Seconds: 57 [/b][/size][/color] Soooooo Hooray for me! I am glad and I am very happy that I have got this far. Why is it then that I have this nittering little voice underneath that says yo can't do it you will fail a a whole lot of other pretty depreciating and nasty things. I must always look at the strength that I have and say yes I can do this. One foot in front of the other, make sure to go swimming and breath, breath, breath. (Which is what it is really all about!) So on my quit meter I would like to add the number of breaths that I have added to my life and that is about 3 or 4 thousand lungs full of air. That is awesome. Hooray! :) [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 2/17/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 30 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 610 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $225 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 4 [B]Hrs:[/B] 23 [B]Mins:[/B] 24 [B]Seconds:[/B] 46
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Hooooooney I am waiting for that Tuesday! I really want me some of that! Phillip Redrosie you are so funny. There are few in this world that having me laughing like I will laugh with you! What headach, ... oh yeah there is is. [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 2/17/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 36 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 738 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $270 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 6 [B]Hrs:[/B] 0 [B]Mins:[/B] 27 [B]Seconds:[/B] 32
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Sad Sad Sad Today :confuse: The whole day nothing but grey and down. I have had a really bad headache. It got somewhat better during and shortly after swim and got worse with dinner. I don't know what it is and I will ask the doctor this week. I am sad seeing oldies, newbies falling away. I knew a couple of weeks ago that this site would be dramatic. My knowing has not helped me, prepared me to deal with when people fall away, I was simply not prepared for the amount of pain I see around me. No smoking here. Another night to pull the covers up over my head. I thought that this was over and I guess it is just in the middle. Can't wait for Tuesday [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 2/17/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 36 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 738 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $270 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 6 [B]Hrs:[/B] 0 [B]Mins:[/B] 19 [B]Seconds:[/B] 17
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How did you know! [quote] Rob47 273502 Phew- the only thing missing was Vincent Price. You turn around and there's a Raven with a marlboro in it's beak! Looks like you passed the test. Congrats! Never more, never more... Bob Rob47 273506 bump just to make Phillip laugh. [/quote] And the laugh was there! Better than smokin. [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 2/17/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 36 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 739 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $270 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 6 [B]Hrs:[/B] 0 [B]Mins:[/B] 35 [B]Seconds:[/B] 13
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Laughter has got to be good medicine. And I mean that truly. I am going to go study this. All of the stuff about uptake inhibitors, dopamine and do we actually just create that stuff in our brain by laughing. I know that when O was smoking that I could barely laugh it turned into a hacking coughing gasping for air wheezing fit. AND just now I was laughing, laughing so hard and I was not wheezing or any of that stuff. and I feel more with it more together than I have feltsince ohI don't know the BM ad excessive gas posts the other night when I was also laughing. Shevie I bet you know about this all of the research you have done and I will go off and look at this. I bet there has to be some kind of study. Blagh blagh blagh I think I need to laugh, I mean really roll around laughing everyday. I t might turn out to be as gopod as comfort food and better for me. [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 2/17/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 36 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 739 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $270 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 6 [B]Hrs:[/B] 0 [B]Mins:[/B] 36 [B]Seconds:[/B] 35
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Saturday am Have been having a very good time all in all. YET. I came here and read a post and it is all I can do to hold back the tears. They are really of sadness. I am so sorry to see the huge struggle that we have. The amount of energy and the time and space put into this quit. One can think so well about what is one's life and then it is just not so. I look deeper and what I see is denial. Then I upon further inspection, can see the addict, laying inside, then that addict piece springs forward and in no time the body is consumed by the addict. What was once beautiful and human and seeingly carefree, is now consumed. Hmmmmmmm. Sounds just like how a cancerous cell lies quietly inside of the body, is triggered by some event and within days, months has overtaken the body and turned what was once human into something cancerous and dead. Eaten away all of the flesh and consumed itself to die. Ah HA, there it is this is where the sadness lies, this is the sad part, that we can consume ourselves. That we can fully turn on ourselves and take the life that feeds each of us. Looking today to find the nurturing part of myself, heal that part that can turn on myself and consume until here is nothing left. Funny how it is all in that little note. Not One Puff Ever. [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 2/17/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 36 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 728 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $270 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 5 [B]Hrs:[/B] 22 [B]Mins:[/B] 27 [B]Seconds:[/B] 58
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Well well well. Another day has rolled by on the old odometer, or was that checkitoutnosmokingometer, whatever that thingy is there are a bunch more not smoked and another day has rolled by. Hooray. I did not smoke. Today was not without it challenges. My collegue from work called this afternoon to say no Wednesday meeting but a Monday afternoon meeting would be better. I am scared and nervous as it was and moving it up like that and I wanted this nasty meeting so, and even now the thought of this meeting has me all tingly and on edge. I did not smoke! I was also very headachy this afternoon and I took a sinus decongestant, because the head ache was nasal and very sinousy. and I felt better. I did not smoke. Was all alone for a couple of hours this afternoon and had some sneaky addict stuff, "Like you could just run around to the market and pick up a pack". Then I thought no lighter, and how will I actually get that smell off me, before anyone gets home. I did not smoke. So I am making progress cause I DID NOT SMOKE! :p Hooray, another day. That I did not smoke. Phillip [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 2/17/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 37 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 758 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $277.5 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 6 [B]Hrs:[/B] 4 [B]Mins:[/B] 19 [B]Seconds:[/B] 31

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