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Post by Don on Mar 9, 2012 13:51:12 GMT -5
I think we're all taking a little 'time out' lately. But here I am, late to the party, smokeless all the same. My wife's oldest sister just had an operation to remove a tumour on her tongue as she was diagnosed last week with salivary gland cancer. So here's the score with cancer in her family: - Father: lymphoma (fatal)
- Mother: breast cancer (survivor)
- Oldest brother: brain tumor (fatal)
- Oldest sister: salivary gland cancer (currently being treated)
- 2nd oldest sister: breast cancer (currently being treated)
- next older sister: lymphoma (survivor)
- Aunt (mother's sister): breast cancer (currently being treated)
Suffice to say my wife wonders when it will be her turn. I tell her not to worry, it'll be that pile of money we've always wanted that will fall out of the sky and flatten us. On that jolly note, go out and live your smokeless lives! 10~27~99
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Post by Don on Mar 9, 2012 13:34:13 GMT -5
Dot, I'm sure you've gone through a lot of worry and concern. Uncertainty adds to life's baggage. I hope your tests came back with encouraging news.
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Post by Don on Feb 21, 2012 19:00:01 GMT -5
Another week, another week smokeless. Well that smokelessness comes pretty easy for me after so many years. It's not a brag, just an affirmation that Quitting is possible and living one's life without the constant voice/urge to smoke is within reach.
Even with the stresses of life, the excuses that we used to rationalize our need to smoke...gone. Don't get me wrong, stress is still there! Smoking never, ever removed that. In fact, smoking didn't really do a whole lot of helpfulness. Leaves you short on money and short on breath.
Well, enough of that, got to go live my smokeless life!
How you do everyone? Committed to your Quit??
10/27/99
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Post by Don on Feb 16, 2012 22:52:25 GMT -5
Hi Country!! Yep things are quiet around here. But not for me, been busy, short tempered and otherwise just looking at all of the projects in front of me and not knowing where to start-literally.
Spending a ton of time on computers but sometimes I need a kick to move the mouse clicks over to this place. Guess life without smoking doesn't mean you get more free time.
no cigs since:10-27-99
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Post by Don on Feb 6, 2012 14:31:42 GMT -5
Woo hoo, February already! Bikini weather.
If you'd started your Quit on New Years, you'd be quit over a month and on a healthy start!
No desire for smoking...just coffee. Got literally a truckload of work in front of me. I need a bigger shovel.
I lost in the company blind luck football pool. I guess the phrase, "down on his luck" applies. This may be better than "a day late and a dollar short".
cigless since oct 27 99
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Post by Don on Feb 1, 2012 14:06:59 GMT -5
A year ago today we got slammed by a major snowstorm that knocked us down for a couple of days. Today I'm staring at brown grass and sunshire. I think I'm liking this year so far.
No urge to smoke. Nada. Altho I would mind inhaling tulips and lilacs...but that's jumping the season a bit.
Oh well, back to the grindstone...have a great week everyone!
10-27-99
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Post by Don on Jan 24, 2012 14:47:57 GMT -5
Tick tock tick tock. Getting a bit closer to Spring with each day! Still can't complain too much about winter so far, but my heart is always fond of the greener months. I still have high hopes for this year and will do what I can to nudge it on the positive side. How goes your new year? Smokeless? I burned a carrot in the microwave over the weekend, don't know if that counts in the smoking category. cigless since 10-27-99
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Post by Don on Jan 17, 2012 9:14:42 GMT -5
Yep it's quiet around here because everyone quit smoking and no longer needs to rant. There is truth to the notion that once quit, you move on with your smokeless life. I don't struggle with daily craves, the internal battle in the head, the torment that no one can see externally yet is a constant thunder within our quitting selves. But I do remember. It's because I remember that I make the occasional pilgrimage back to this place. I remember the people too. I guess I consider myself fortunate that I came on during a time of high activity, where there were many of us all going thru the various stages of quit. While it was good to have fellow newly quit around me it was also enlightening to see the "oldbies" with their long quittimes, encouraging me and others that quitting was indeed possible. At the early stages of quitting, it's hard to see the long term. The oldbies gave us that. And so I (as a considered Oldbie) come here to try to make the Roll Call if at not the least to give hope to any reading this who are in the early stages of quitting or contemplating the leap, that one can truly be free of the scourages of that sick addiction. Cigless since: 10/27/1999
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Post by Don on Jan 11, 2012 16:53:10 GMT -5
Well it's getting late in the week. Guess everyone is tired from the weekend.
Broke a tooth yesterday. Makes for an expensive lunch. Got a temp patch on it until I get a crown.
Winter is about to finally arrive tomorrow. Yesterday I put the top down on the car to enjoy the last bits of global warming around my area. So I can't really complain too much about this winter.
Have smokeless week everyone!
10-27-99
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Post by Don on Jan 3, 2012 13:42:04 GMT -5
Twenty-twelve. Let it be a good one!
10.27.99
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Post by Don on Jan 3, 2012 13:39:10 GMT -5
Dot, I concur. I don't know what it was that made 2011 such a tough year. A lot of worry, pain and sorrow. I was always taught to look for the good. It was very hard to find any of the good. Life is crazy, or it drives you crazy one of the two. If there is one thing, one shred the keeps some sense of sanity, it is to keep moving. It's not the direction one travels that matters, only the momentum to keep pushing on, wherever it may lead. Cigarettes, booze, whatever. We lean on anything. Sometimes we lean too much on our crutches and they hinder our healing and our need for self-reliance.
Vent all you need. Sometimes that's the best medicine of the day. While it may hurt you to laugh, I surmise you'll have a few laughs courtesy of that new puppy of yours. Wishin you all the best for 2012.
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Post by Don on Dec 27, 2011 14:53:35 GMT -5
2012 will be better, that's the mission!
Happy last week of the year everyone!
cigless in 2011, cigless since 10-27-99
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Post by Don on Dec 21, 2011 9:14:17 GMT -5
The year is just about over in a little more than a week. What will 2012 bring? Crystal ball anyone?
Well if you're a smoker it might bring you a beautiful Quit, but you have to work for. It doesn't just magically appear. I guess that's true for a lot of things in life. The good things in life don't usually just fall onto our laps. We have to sow the seeds, weed and feed before we get a harvest.
10.27.99
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Post by Don on Dec 14, 2011 10:39:35 GMT -5
It has been very busy and very rough lately. The icing on the cake came last week friday morning when my brother suffered a heart attack and died on the way to the hospital. It's part of the deal with this whole life gig, so I won't dwell on it. What I will note with regard to my brother is that we all thought he would get cancer and give us a little time to say good-byes. You see, he smoked...a lot. I'm sure it had an impact on his health as he was 48 and not what we would consider old. Fifteen years ago he had to change his life a bit when he discovered he was a celiac - wheat/gluten allergic. However, I don't think he would've dropped smoking had he survived this. And there are many more smokers like this. I'm just glad I don't smoke anymore and if that buys me any more time to stick around with my family, all the better. Take care you all. cigless since: 10.27.99
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Post by Don on Nov 29, 2011 12:41:46 GMT -5
still here too!
Today's lunch, smoked turkey soup. About the only smoking going on.
10-27-99
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