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17 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1056

Well said Pokerbrat, Like your picture! All the best. Gen :) [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B]3/28/2007 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 163 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 2,608 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] �815.00 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 21 [B]Hrs:[/B] 14 [B]Mins:[/B] 22 [B]Seconds:[/B] 27

17 years ago 0 +0 / -0 363

Same here Blue Cloud, I am one drag away from 2 packs a day again. It's hard to believe that a substance can have that kind of control over your life, but it does, and we have to educate ourselves about it so we never go there again. It took me 26 years to open my eyes from the denial I was in, it's a wonder any of us can open our eyes at all. We're the lucky ones, something inside each of us made us wake up, now at least we have a fighting chance. Congrats on your 64 days blue, very nice stats. [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B]6/2/2007 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 97 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 4,656 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $931.20 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 14 [B]Hrs:[/B] 2 [B]Mins:[/B] 17 [B]Seconds:[/B] 8

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$39,039.00

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Days: 1026 Hours: 20

Minutes: 16 Seconds: 32

Life Gained
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5720

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171,600

Cigarettes Not Smoked

17 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1160

Pokerbrat, you are so right. Not so long ago I made a big difference between alcohol and nicotine. With the help of this site and all the information from members I have completely changed my way of thinking. I now know I am an addict who has 64 smoke free days. One puff would put me back to a pack a day. [color=blue]BLUE CLOUD[/color] [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B]7/4/2007 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 64 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 1,280 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $256.00 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 8 [B]Hrs:[/B] 14 [B]Mins:[/B] 47 [B]Seconds:[/B] 56

17 years ago 0 +0 / -0 2436

Hi pokerbrat- You are so right... I have posted over and over here that we are not different than the user w/a needle hanging out of his or her arm, filled with heroin... or the young man sitting on the street corner smoking crack... Addiction is addiction... Blessings and thanks for the post! Healer [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B]3/5/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 550 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 19,250 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $2,557.50 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 72 [B]Hrs:[/B] 21 [B]Mins:[/B] 12 [B]Seconds:[/B] 29

17 years ago 0 +0 / -0 2417

smoking really stinks! [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B]1/8/2007 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 241 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 3,615 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $1,012.20 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 22 [B]Hrs:[/B] 9 [B]Mins:[/B] 13 [B]Seconds:[/B] 41

17 years ago 0 +0 / -0 672

Tobacco is just a form of legalised crack ! sucking in a cigarette or injesting any form of nicotine is just as bad as injecting Heroin into your veins, both drugs trigger the brain to release dopamine & both drugs eventually make your brain lazy so that it becomes reliant on these substances to produce dopamine (feel good). if you don't believe me, do you ever recall feeling happy when you weren't allowed to have a smoke when you needed one. [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B]1/1/2005 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 978 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 34,230 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $6,357.00 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 139 [B]Hrs:[/B] 20 [B]Mins:[/B] 3 [B]Seconds:[/B] 8

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$13,263.84

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Days: 663 Hours: 17

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3624

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54,360

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17 years ago 0 +0 / -0 3875

For all you lurkers who are on the fence, read that post again, it is the truth. Good reason to quit! :) You got that right on Pokerbrat! [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B]3/5/2007 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 185 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 4,625 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $1,951.75 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 22 [B]Hrs:[/B] 15 [B]Mins:[/B] 19 [B]Seconds:[/B] 32

17 years ago 0 +0 / -0 277

Good post. We [u]were[/u] slaves to this addiction! [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B]9/4/2007 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 2 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 24 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $9.12 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 0 [B]Hrs:[/B] 4 [B]Mins:[/B] 53 [B]Seconds:[/B] 20

17 years ago 0 +0 / -0 3541

Bang on,PB! [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B]5/13/2007 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 116 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 2,320 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $1,276.00 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 11 [B]Hrs:[/B] 15 [B]Mins:[/B] 27 [B]Seconds:[/B] 7

17 years ago 0 +0 / -0 363

I've been doing some thinking about this addiction, trying to look at it from many different angles. But no matter how I try to look at it, it all adds up to the same thing, addicts are addicts, no matter what your "fix" is. If I see a crackhead on the corner turning tricks, I say to myself, "How could that person let themselves get to that point". If I see an alcoholic sleeping in the gutter, I think how sad, this person has no control over there life. But in reality, WE WERE NO DIFFERENT THAN THEM! We were huddling outside in sub-zero weather to get our fix, we were standing in the rain to get our fix, we were missing part of the play our child was performing in to get our fix, we were slaves to our addiction just as a heroin addict is a slave to thiers. I see a smoker now and I see things I never saw before, I see sunken eyes, I see the texture of there skin is wrong, I see discolored teeth and fingernails, just like the crack addict, we were displaying the effects of our addiction to everyone, and didn't even know any better. The only difference now is we are fighting back, we are standing up and trying to take back our lives from the monster who has eaten up so many years of it. Whats left is ours, we stand together, we hold each other up if need be, but whats left of our lives is ours now. [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B]6/2/2007 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 96 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 4,608 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $921.60 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 13 [B]Hrs:[/B] 23 [B]Mins:[/B] 24 [B]Seconds:[/B] 46

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$39,039.00

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Days: 1026 Hours: 20

Minutes: 16 Seconds: 33

Life Gained
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5720

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171,600

Cigarettes Not Smoked

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