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Post by Graciedonovan on Jul 18, 2005 5:19:20 GMT -5
Hi everyone. I hope you all had a great weekend. Hot and muggy here, but still smoke free for:
1 year, 6 months, 2 weeks and counting.
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Post by ncpops on Jul 18, 2005 6:26:10 GMT -5
Hot & Sticky, but no butts
Jimpops
4/00
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Post by Ann on Jul 18, 2005 8:14:15 GMT -5
OMG we have a predicted heat index of over 100 by this afternoon! That's a little too hot and too sticky for me but I'm still quit.
Quit Jan. 20, 2000
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Post by johnpic32 on Jul 18, 2005 11:49:31 GMT -5
John here, going strong day 25 I thnik. Very hot and humid here in Jersey. Keep cool and smoke free, God bless, Deacon John
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Post by Elaine on Jul 18, 2005 13:33:45 GMT -5
It's so humid out it's hard to breathe! That made me think of how this time last year I was sucking down 2 packs a day...how DID I breathe?
10 months, 2 weeks, 3 days and counting
12865 not smoked saving $1415.25 and
saving 6 weeks, 2 days and 16 hours and 5 mins of my life.
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Post by Don on Jul 18, 2005 14:31:06 GMT -5
I will remember all of this when I'm shovelling my driveway in a few months....
Here!
cigless since 10.27.99
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Post by PatB on Jul 18, 2005 18:01:51 GMT -5
Was just a tad warm at the 4H fair this last weekend. At least we only had one animal there(cat) and that was only for a few hours. The rest of her 12 projects didn't require watering. She got state delegate for 2 things and alternates for 2 more and quite a few blue ribbons.
We've finally given up on the rain. Husband started looking into who's hiring in the area and I told my other jobs I'd pick up some more days. Not much grass left to mow around here. Only bright spot is we've gotten a few calls from ppl that fired their old lawn care providers...some of them were actually still going out every week and mowing dead, brown grass that hasn't had a decent rain 2 months. I don't like mowing in this heat well enuf to waste my time or their money I guess. I'm taking rain dance lessons before next year!
everyone stay cool
congrats on 2 yrs Batman...I'll be there soon
Glad to see you back John!
Pat
1 year, 9 months, 2 weeks
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Post by dorothy on Jul 19, 2005 15:41:03 GMT -5
HOT here also.
Ten days the 90s.
Love Dorothy::
One year, six months, one week, five days, 8 hours, 8 minutes and 41 seconds. 22373 cigarettes not smoked, saving $3,915.08. Life saved: 11 weeks, 16 hours, 25 minutes.
Roger:
Three years, seven months, one day, 5 hours, 39 minutes and 7 seconds. 52369 cigarettes not smoked, saving $9,164.36. Life saved: 25 weeks, 6 days, 20 hours, 5 minutes.
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Post by slim on Jul 20, 2005 10:20:53 GMT -5
Lets just say i have been lost and now i'm found... :-)
how can it be Wed already.....oh my
Forget all the temptations and opportunities....which have been many lately...the occasional urges....(and Don i am almost ready for the once a year stogie...i think...) i choose not to smoke....even tho so many friends continue to do so!
That is there choice...NOT MINE!
proud to be smokefree
_slim
4 Years 1 Month 1 Week 1 Day 16 Hours 55 Minutes 53 Seconds.
Cigarettes not smoked: 44991.
Money saved: $8,998.23.
Time/Life saved: 10 Mos 1 Wk 2 Days 10 Hrs 31 Mins 38 Secs
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Post by Don on Jul 20, 2005 19:25:20 GMT -5
Gotta reply to you on this one Slim!
I do NOT advocate that anyone test their quit by lighting something up. (Nor would I encourage or deny anyone becoming a parent...but that's another world of trials and triumphs!)
I know that just about everyone of us has deluded themselves into the thoughts that they could be a "social" smoker -- smoke for the party and leave the pack behind afterwards. Or be like that character in the movie "Misery" who smokes a victory cigarette after finish writing his next novel. Or somewhat like that character that Danny Divito plays in "War of the Roses" who keeps his last un-smoked cigarette in a plastic box on his desk.
"Another puff" is most definitely fatal to many a Quit!
Having said all that, I indeed do partake that d**nable puff every year or two from cigars on my "special occasion" fishing trips away from home. In fact, I'll be spending a week on a houseboat in the boundary waters between the US and Can come this September. And, I will be bringing along a cigar for the trip (MY choice, not because some plant tells me to -- honestly they really do keep away the biting flies). I was only able to do this after I had a couple years into my Quit.
For me, I cannot inhale...(unlike some ex-presidents who never Ex-haled). Thus, I cannot and will not allow myself to suck the smoke into my lungs and try to relive the "old times". I also am not an idiot and know full well that the beast is in my hands when I hold that cigar. So, my smokeless life re-commences once upon shore and the big trip is over. It does not carry over into my everyday life or even my weekend fishing trips.
I can describe it like visiting an old romantic flame--people who once were "your world" and for whom you'd do anything for. But now, you've long fallen out of love and that power they had over you is remarkably dulled. There's that history between you but you keep the visit platonic.
However, there's that tinge of guilt that somehow you're ruining your Quit. Perhaps this is so and I own up to that with many a roll call posting "cigless since:".
Regardless to when I last inhaled second hand smoke, even that emitted by the big tree branch in my mouth, I feel that I have been freed from my Slave Master since the first salvos fired on October 27, 1999.
So, Slim....be very sure you know what you're doing before you go beyond that "I think" to I will.
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Post by Karyn on Jul 21, 2005 6:29:45 GMT -5
I am here late but here and still smoke free.
My new job is kicking my butt!!!
Very busy, but happy to see everyone doing well.
Don wow very powerful little jaunt there. LOve it
Karyn
Five months, two weeks, six days, 30 minutes and 23 seconds. 2040 cigarettes not smoked, saving $297.50. Life saved: 1 week, 2 hours, 0 minutes.
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