Roll Call for week of April 26th 2010

[Ann]

I hope that everyone had a wonderful weekend and are ready to face the week without smoking.

Keep The Quit
Jan. 20, 2000

[Don]

Hello all!

Busy getting ready for our trade show in Boston.

Looking forward to warmer days ahead. Everything is blooming. Had wind knock down our flowering crab apple that I had to rope upright, hopefully it'll live.

Other that that, the usual craziness.

10-27-99

[dorothyl]

;DGreat weekend.
Still smokefree since
1/7/2004
Roger
12/18/2001

[slim]

May 1st is day one of the Michigan smoking ban in public places. Should be interesting.
I for one can't wait to go into a sports bar and not come out smelling like an ashtray~ Most folks are
for it...and of course a few that think it's taking away their rights....I can see their point on one hand...and the other side is that 2nd hand smoke is not good for one's health. So smokers can still smoke...just not around other people in public places. simple as that.
What are your thoughts.......

8 Years 10 Months 2 Weeks 1 Day 14 Hours 21 Minutes 16 Seconds.
Cigarettes not smoked: 97247.
Money saved: $19,449.59.
1 Yr 10 Mos 6 Days 7 Hrs 59 Mins 25 Secs

[Flo]

Good morning everyone! We have been getting below normal cooler weather with rain this last week but the sun is out now and is supposed to hang around for the next couple of weeks. Let's hope so!

Slim, we are instituting a new law of smoking here in Vancouver which is no smoking on public beaches or parks. Well, Stanley Park is even larger than Central Park and is a major place for Vancouverites to play (and smoke). We just instituted a law last year or so that there is no smoking near doorways and patios of restaurants (which were the only places smokers could eat and smoke). The noose is tightening. Some residential places have a no smoking policy and certainly all federal and provincial buildings have a no smoking policy.

Second hand smoke is apparnetly worse than first hand smoke and third hand smoke (the residue in curtains, clothing etc.) is even worse apparently.

It's a democratic society and Michigan voted for this and it is part of the withdrawal of society from smoking. We had a new tenant in our complex who was smoking outside on his balcony and the whole time, coughing like mad, going into spasms and choking - all the while the smoke was drifting up into my apartment. He was not only creating noise pollution but second and third hand smoke. That went on for a week or two and obviuosly someone complained as I no longer hear him. I am most grateful for that. It was very annoying. First thing in the morning, when it is so fresh and lovely out, I would be doing my morning yoga, looking out at the ocean, and then there would come this hacking choking cough followed by smoke.

No. It's not a good thing and I cringe with shame at how I must have annoyed others when I smoked on the balcony.

[KAREN]

Good morning everyone. I am so happy to be smoke free. The 22nd anniversary of my mother's death fell on April 28. She died of lung cancer. I was 22 and am 44 now. I am so grateful that I quit smoking and am taking responsibility for my health. I loved my mom dearly and was happy for the time I had her. My father died in 1975 of lung cancer when I was 9 and I would have loved to have had him around as long as my mom or longer but it was not meant to be. I think of them fondly today but choose not to make the same choices they made. My dad quit smoking awhile before he was even diagnosed with the cancer but it was too late.

Sorry I have been MIA lately. I am still around, dealing with life's issues like everyone else and trying to have some fun in between.

I am gratefully smoke free though and have you all in part to thank for it. Thanks for always being here.

Karen