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18 years ago 0 715 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
I just knew this would be interesting :) Good reading already! Just breathe......... [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B]7/9/2007 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 34 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 680 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $163.20 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 3 [B]Hrs:[/B] 9 [B]Mins:[/B] 2 [B]Seconds:[/B] 25

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18 years ago 0 8760 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
Joyful, This is a great topic of discussion. Keep the answers coming! Danielle, Bilingual Support Specialist
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18 years ago 0 1148 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
Looking good Joyfulspirit, 34 days!!! I'll start by thanking you for your service. Like Kita I was raised in a smokey house, both my parents smoked. I started directly smoking just before my 16th birthday but technically I had been smoking since birth. I'm two years older than you Joyful, so I had been willfully smoking for 30 years. My brothers and sisters also took up smoking and all but the youngest have quit now and we're working on him. It really was a cultural thing, something you just did. It remained that way throughout my adult life up to very recently. My wife and I both smoked but we didn't smoke in the house or around our children (one lesson learned). That didn't stop my older children from starting to smoke. We're working on them. My wife quit long before I did and my older two said they would quit if I did. Well, I'm waiting for them to acknowledge that I have quit and being very careful not to take any part of the decision to quit away from them. If we could only revisit that point in time that we took that first drag. I remember coughing and feeling slightly ill and taking another drag thinking the coughing and sickness will pass and it did. Just add a little inspiration to that experience, "your body is trying to tell you to stop and if you don't the drug will silence your bodies rejections and take control of you." 30 years later the coughing and sickness have passed again but this time I went through the exit and left that part of my life behind. I can easily live without that. [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B]3/15/2007 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 150 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 3,000 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $630.00 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 24 [B]Hrs:[/B] 5 [B]Mins:[/B] 0 [B]Seconds:[/B] 43
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Hi Joyful, I was raised around smokers and hated it as a kid. I would ride in the car with my mother and open all the windows telling her she was killing me and little did we know back then it was true. I guess I was 18 and used to buy a pack from time to time and just puff on them but had no idea how to inhale or even that there was a difference. The girl I worked with told me she would teach me and so she did and here I am today. This is my first attempt at a quit ever and it has been hard but day by day I move along. Good topic :) [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B]3/21/2007 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 144 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 2,880 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $936.00 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 20 [B]Hrs:[/B] 8 [B]Mins:[/B] 14 [B]Seconds:[/B] 58
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18 years ago 0 715 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
It was very interesting to read Blue Clouds thread about how it was when she first started smoking. I thought it would be interesting to hear how we all got sucked into sucking in those nasty poisons & this nasty addiction. I was born in 1963 :) I always hated cig's. I remember taking people's cig's away from them or taking them out of their mouth and breaking them, or hiding them. My Grandmother is in heaven now but I remember how she always talked about quitting and how she struggled. She had 2 small chandaliers in her house and I cleaned all the yellow nicatine off one of them and told her that I'd clean the other one when she quit smoking. But that never happened. After she passed away I had a dream that I saw her walking down a sidewalk and she looked young & fresh & happy & I knew she didn't smoke. She looked so pretty. They say when you go to heaven that you return to a young age when you were happy. I wonder if that was really a dream that I had? When I was in Saudi in "Desert Storm" I started smoking beedies. Nobody knew what was in them but they weren't cig's. Then when I got back to Germany I started buying cig's. I remember someone telling me that I should just stop right then and that I didn't even look like a smoker. But I was already hooked :( Later I found out that the beedies were straight nicatine rolled up in a dried out banana leaf. So at age 28 I started smoking. So 16yrs minus about 2yrs of the quit days I've had, I've smoke approx. 14 yrs of my life. So if it's true what they say about each cig taking 7 min's off your life, then I've lost a great deal of my time here on earth. Wow, if I smoked a pack a day for 14 yrs that means that 20 cig's X 7 = 140 min's or 2.33hrs & a day, or 16.33hrs a week or 65.33hrs a month or 784hrs a yr or 10,976hrs in 14yrs. I don't even want to know how many days that is that I let nicotine take off my life. :( That's terrible! How sad is that? When I got out of the army & back to the states, my friend couldn't believe that me of all people had started smoking b/c they knew how much I hated it. I'd always said I would never smoke. Now I never say that I'll never do anything b/c the more I learn the more I realize I don't know. Practice quits add on days of our lives also, which is a good thing. Anytime without smoking is a good thing!!!!!!!!! I have over a month quit now and am very happy to be smoke-fee. This quit has been super tough for me but it's worth it to be free of this addiction even if only for today :) One day at a time :) Just breathe.........Ahhhhhhhhh [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B]7/9/2007 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 34 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 680 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $163.20 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 3 [B]Hrs:[/B] 7 [B]Mins:[/B] 41 [B]Seconds:[/B] 13

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