.. on the 1st - UKKatie (6 months)
3rd - Peg (5 months), Amber (1 month) and Carla (3 months)
7th - KatieLou (6 months)
Apologies to anyone I’ve missed (email me off list with your quit
dates and I’ll put them in the database) - but many congrats to all
of you celebrating this next week :))
Pam
Hi everyone
I’m Indi and been around this group for almost 9 months and been quit
for same amount of time.
I haven’t posted in a while and haven’t even read the posts for some
time, - all to do with computer problems, health problems and
probably some complacency.
I quit, with the help of this group, almost 9 months ago (think thats
right, no doubt someone will correct me if I’m wrong).
I had a real bad time at the beginning and thought that warren would
never stop shouting at me but then slowly, I began to listen to
Steve, Pam and Pat (the oldies as I call them) and together with a
lot of support from my friend Cat (who quit at same time) eventually
got through it all.
The hole came and eventually went, the depression came and eventually
went and warren slowly but surely began to give me healthier
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Please Warren …SHUT UP !!!! I don’t want to hear you any more. Are you deaf
??? In what language do I have to speak to you??? Smoking is not what I need. I
don’t smoke any more. So why do you insist in whispering in my ear ??? I’m
beginning to get desperate . I thought you will calm yourself . But I see that
you are always awake. Don’t you want to sleep a little bit ??? You definitely
scare me . I don’t know if I can go on hearing you all the time . Please
Warren…SHUT UP !!!
The date is 29th June 2002 (the reason i have put the date is because
the last time i posted it wasn’t put on the board until nearly a week
later)
I stopped smoking 2 weeks, 3 days, 13 hrs, 18 mins, 526 cigs not
smoked a saving of £65.83p.I did all this cold turkey.
I am from Birmingham UK, and i am 35 years old, and i have smoked for
20 years.I am married with four children.
One of the reasons i decided to stop was that we couldnt afford a
family holiday this year and i was a bit depressed and felt the kids
were missing out, when my husband pointed out that if i saved all my
money from smoking, then we could afford a holiday abroad every year!
Well i had never thought of it like that, so all my fag money is
going into a new bank account, and it is for our holiday next year!
So i cant start smoking again, and to tell the truth i really dont
want another puff again.
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Me too, with ABC’s. We got this message in Nicanon too and members were lol.
I was lmao!
Afir
Char !! Congratulations on your 10 months. I didn’t realize you were
that close to your first year. :))
Well done
Steve
When I celebrated my six month quit with a fine cuban cigar, it was a
sweet victory alright.
Ha!!! Of course I didn’t smoke a cigar, geez! Got your attention
though, huh?
Six months quit WAS a major milestone for me. I guess it was at this
point that I realized that the ‘other shoe’ was not going to drop.
I’d accomplished what I’d set out to do…I’d become a person who
does not smoke. I sincerely hope that anyone who reaches this point
feels the same. Marde had her 6 month anniversary last Saturday.
Jean will have her 6 month anniversary on July 1 (I believe that’s
right since there’s no June 31 - ?), and Gail will have her 6 month
anniversary this Tuesday. Congratulations to all three of you, for
what you’ve accomplished!!! I am so happy to be in such great
company!!!
- Cat
Came across this from Out of the Ashes. We’ve talked about this
before. Well, actually, we’ve had some friendly arguments about this
before. When I first quit smoking, I had the typical reaction of
missing my ‘friend.’ I thought I’d post for some of you who are
very new in your quits; just something to think about…
———
Grieving…
It can be argued that going through a “mourning period” for
cigarettes is the result of a mistaken value judgment- that
cigarettes are a valuable and useful part of life. It is appropriate
to mourn for the loss of something valuable- a loved one, or a valued
possession. But would you mourn a cancerous tumor after the surgeon
removed it? Would you grieve a ball and chain when they were removed?
I spent years justifying and making excuses for my smoking. “It helps
me concentrate.” “It helps me deal with stress.” “It comforts me.”
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Thanks Steve!
today is 4d 10:42 smoke-free, 124 cigs not smoked, $ 11,16 saved, 10:20
life saved
These days had been “comfortable”. But today I began to feel that “strange
feeling” of “something missing” and “I don’t know what”. Difficult to make ABCs
when you don’t really know or understand what you need. It’s a feeling that
persists and it’s the feeling that made me bought cigs. before. Now it’s not
terrible. But when you feel this day after day, after day…you get tired…I
would like to work on this issue before it’s too late !!!
Perhaps somebody felt the same and can give me a hint for a new abc or for a
new thinking. I don’t feel relaxed . I don’t understand why the 4th day is worse
than the first. Or is it like this?
I’ve chosen to be nicotine free. I want to quit definitively. Silvia
I love freedom and I can make a choice: I don’t want to smoke any more…
Silvia
I love myself more than I love cigarettes. 
- Cat