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Post by KAREN on Oct 24, 2010 11:50:22 GMT -5
Here and accounted for. MN weather is cooling off too. We actually had some nice weather off and on in October this year but now I think it is back to reality. I am so glad I don't smoke anymore and have to go outside at work and deal with the rain,snow, cold, etc.
Karen
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Post by KAREN on Oct 5, 2010 15:47:20 GMT -5
Happy Birthday Slim! I also see people smoking and if I am not seeing the, I am smelling them. Funny, I smelled that way for 24 years! I am so grateful I don't put my health at risk anymore and am proud to be one of this group and not smoking. Have a great week everybody.
Karen
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Post by KAREN on Sept 29, 2010 20:52:32 GMT -5
Nope, not looking for an excuse to smoke here. I am the happiest not smoking for sure. Good for my health and good for my pocket book too. But I do remember using all the excuses when I was not ready to to quit smoking, that's for sure. I choose not to be hooked up to oxygen or deal with emphysema, pneumonia like I did, or cancer, heart disease and so many other things that the smoking can cause.
Karen
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Post by KAREN on Sept 29, 2010 20:48:21 GMT -5
I love the fresh air when I leave to bike into work in the morning. I also love that my lungs can take the bike into work. Still not smoking and still enjoying it!
Karen
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Post by KAREN on Sept 25, 2010 10:11:01 GMT -5
Hi Flo and thanks for the response again.
I have noticed that he smokes cigars but would not have said anything to him or put this much thought into it had he not said what he said to my husband that day. I work really hard not to be one of those "reformed smokers" who judges people as I hated that when I smoked. I also know how hard it is to quit smoking. People have actually judged me for being too easy on people who go back to smoking or won't quit. I really am a "live and let live" person LOL. But if you are judging me or someone I love about something, well hopefully you are not doing that what you are judging us about. I know when I go on their deck that there may be occasions where he will be smoking a cigar and I always figured well I made the choice to go there while he was smoking. His deck, his right to do what he wants.
Anyways, I have chalked this up as a lesson myself and a true test of patience too LOL.
Thanks for your thoughts and responses. I am going back to the "Live and Let Live" philosophy again.
Karen
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Post by KAREN on Sept 20, 2010 19:15:35 GMT -5
Gratefully not smoking and loving it. Have a great week everybody.
Karen
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Post by KAREN on Sept 20, 2010 19:00:21 GMT -5
Thanks for your responses. Ann I do see what you were saying and maybe it was the way I posted about being totally smoke free. Yes, I am an ex-smoker too and I did smoke for years but I meant at the present time in my quit.
Flo, my husband does smoke outside, something he did not do before when he started smoking again and my neighbor does it outside too. I think his wife would clobber him if he tried to smoke that thing in their house LOL.
I like this and this is why I did not stay for the whole conversation that day.
I just think if I say I am an ex-smoker or that I quit smoking then I am not smoking anything and hopefully one day at a time for the rest of my life. I guess at the end of the day, I only am responsible for my quit and not those of others or how they define it. I can support people and help them with their quit but I cannot control how or why they do it.
Thanks again for your responses. The reason I came here with this post is I knew I would get honest, gut level, responses that I can take into consideration.
Karen
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Post by KAREN on Sept 19, 2010 8:47:12 GMT -5
My husband has had a rough time with the quitting smoking. While he has had months smoke free at a time, he is smoking again, a small fraction of what he did before but he is still smoking. My neighbors who quit back in the 70's were giving him the business, one of which still smokes cigars. His wife said, "yeah but he does not inhale." I about fell over and wanted to say, who is he Bill Clinton?? I guess for me if I were smoking cigars I would still consider myself a smoker regardless of inhaling or not. And I am sure for me it would not be very far of a jump to smoking cigarettes again...just sayin. My husband made the comment if he did not inhale his cigarettes does that make a difference? He knows the answer to that all too well, more of a joke then anything. I was just wondering about people's opinions on people who quit smoking but smoke some other form of tobacco still. My neighbor has made the comment that he buys only the purest of tobacco in his cigars. Ok....whatever LOL.
I know that I quit on the patch, so for 10 weeks I still had amounts of nicotine in my system, I was just not inhaling it. I did what I needed to do to quit smoking and have not smoked a cigarette since September 8, 2005 and am very grateful. Lord knows I had my struggles with quitting as some of you on here may remember. And all the excuses in the world when I would light up again. Maybe people could split hairs on my choice of quitting too but if I were still on the patch all these years I would have to question my quit as I do my neighbor's.
Ok....rambling now but I guess my question to you all is what do you consider totally smoke free. Seems like a simple question but the conversation between my neighbors and my husband got me to thinking about it. I feel if I am to be smoke free, I cannot smoke anything, whether it be a cigarette, pipe, cigar, or what have you.
Karen
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Post by KAREN on Sept 19, 2010 8:32:02 GMT -5
I just saw this Dot and I am so sorry I did not see it before. We were fine up in my part of MN...got the storms but not as bad as some other areas thankfully. Thank you for prayers and thinking of me though. I need to catch up on post obviously. Again, thanks.
Karen
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Post by KAREN on Sept 13, 2010 12:21:12 GMT -5
Good morning Ann. I had a nice weekend and am enjoying a nice day off...smoke free of course. Life rocks!
Karen
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Post by KAREN on Sept 8, 2010 20:36:30 GMT -5
I am here and gratefully celebrating 5 years without a cigarette today. Thank you guys so much for all you have done to support me on this journey.
Hugs,
Karen
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Post by KAREN on Aug 30, 2010 10:26:21 GMT -5
Hello everybody! I am off today and thought I would check in for the week. I am gratefully smoke free and happy to be here. Have a great week all!
Karen
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Post by KAREN on Aug 15, 2010 9:55:32 GMT -5
Quick flyby and I am sorry I have not been around much. I am still smoke free and grateful. I did have a smoking dream a couple nights ago and it was so real, they usually are. Always glad when I wake up and it is just a dream but it also shows what I DON'T want to do!
Karen 9/8/05
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Post by KAREN on Jul 27, 2010 10:37:21 GMT -5
I am still around and smoke free and grateful! Always nice to see people still here regardless of vacations, etc. My son turned 15 years old today and I was thinking how grateful I am to be smoke free and healthy enough to enjoy it with him. Life is good!
Karen
I quit smoking on 9/8/2005 9:00 PM. I have been smoke free for 4 Years, 10 Months, 2 Weeks, 4 Days, 13 hours, 37 minutes and 7 seconds. 71,302 cigarettes not smoked. $14,260.53 saved. 1 Year, 4 Months, 1 Week, 1 Day, 3 hours and 40 minutes of life saved.
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Post by KAREN on Jun 22, 2010 6:48:45 GMT -5
Well my baby boy is 15 so not a baby anymore and I am not looking to be a grandma anytime soon. So far he tells me he is a little shy to ask a girl out but he sure likes the girls!
Still smoke free and loving it!
Karen
I have not smoked for 1,747 days. I have saved 1 Year, 3 Months, 4 Weeks, 9 hours and 20 minutes of life.
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