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| Gregums | Apr 23 2008, 02:49 PM Post #1 |
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Here is a website I signed up for on the day I quit. Here are the stats from today... My Quit My Stats: Your Quit Date is: 9/4/2006 8:00:00 PM Time Smoke-Free: 596 days, 18 hours, 45 minutes and 26 seconds Cigarettes NOT smoked: 7161 Lifetime Saved: 1 month, 24 days, 16 hours Money Saved: $1,432.80 Woah...
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| JoshFormerRoomie | Apr 24 2008, 08:18 AM Post #2 |
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"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable." -John Kenneth Galbraith | |
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| jezebel | Jun 30 2008, 08:19 AM Post #3 |
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ok so today is my 4 weeks of no smoking. I quit 4 weeks ago today. I also started running 3 weeks ago since I found out how nice it was to breath deeply again. I can actually run without gasping for air!!! I haven't ran since I was a teenager. Not sure if I can manage my goal, but my goal is to do a 5k by the end of summer. We'll see though. I used to hate running, it was so hard to do. But smoking didn't help. Now to quit driving. If I didn't have a toddler, I'd buy a scooter. |
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| JoshFormerRoomie | Jun 30 2008, 08:37 AM Post #4 |
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It's all about willpower, yes? |
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| Gregums | Jun 30 2008, 08:45 AM Post #5 |
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Congrats Jez! I started running imediately after quitting too. It was a good aggression filter. Keep with it. It only gets easier. I will be coming up on 3 years this september of being smoke free. It all in the mind and the strength to never start again. This may sound bad, but it is actually easy...it's ALL about full-on will power. Ciggs still smell good though.
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| jezebel | Jun 30 2008, 08:54 AM Post #6 |
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i agree with you 100%!!!! It IS easy! One day I just had enough. I quit. A week later my mom gave me a book called "The Easy Way to Stop Smoking" and it's all about brain washing yourself out of smoking and self hypnosis... sort of. But I have enjoyed quitting every single day. I feel like I never smoked or tried smoking and I never have looked at a cigerette longingly. I never miss it or want one. It's really wierd!!!! Do you still run? |
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| Gregums | Jun 30 2008, 09:16 AM Post #7 |
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I rarely run rigt now, but that's probably due to spending time with my (almost) 1 yr old. If you want a fun tool to track how you are doing, go to: www.quitnet.com Here is my stats on there... My Stats: Your Quit Date is: 9/4/2006 8:00:00 PM Time Smoke-Free: 664 days, 13 hours, 5 minutes and 18 seconds Cigarettes NOT smoked: 7975 Lifetime Saved: 2 months, 22 hours Money Saved: $1,596.00 |
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| jezebel | Jun 30 2008, 09:26 AM Post #8 |
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Congrats to you! That's awesome. If you want to run and spend time with your 1 year old, they make excellent jogging strollers. That's what I use. It is a good upper body workout too, and Chloe is 2 1/2 years and loves to go fast. The weight added to push her in the stroller is great on the arms. Then we stop at the park and play and run back home. |
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| jezebel | Jun 30 2008, 09:33 AM Post #9 |
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on that website, Quitnet, it says I have quit for 28 and saved $98. That's incorrect, I've saved over $119.00. But anywhoooooo...... My new tennies cost $89.00 so that makes me feel good. A nice reward for quitting. |
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| JoshFormerRoomie | Jul 1 2008, 08:14 AM Post #10 |
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The only time I really, really want to quit is when I'm sick. Any thoughts? |
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| Gregums | Jul 1 2008, 10:32 AM Post #11 |
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Because that when your body is telling most that it doesn't like it. |
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| JoshFormerRoomie | Jul 2 2008, 08:07 AM Post #12 |
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Sometimes I hate my brain. |
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| Jeffrywith1e | Jul 2 2008, 09:10 AM Post #13 |
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Yeah, me too. Your brain bothers me sometimes.
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| jezebel | Jul 2 2008, 01:43 PM Post #14 |
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That book I read is a good one, Josh. If you believe in brainwashing, you should read it. I like to think I am beyond brainwashing, but nobody is. Plus, I welcome positive brainwashing that helps me quit smoking. It's a book, buy it on Amazon. You get to keep smoking while you read it, in fact, it's required. It's part of the "treatment". By the time you are 1/2 way through reading the book, you can't WAIT to quit. No joke. The writer smoked 100 a day. A DAY! For 40 years or something crazy like that. No medicine, no patch, no gum, no withdrawal anything! No pain. No agony. No longing for a cigarette. Just.... done. Like you never started. Seriously, can it hurt to read a book? What if I mailed you mine, than you wouldn't have to buy one. You can read a page a day and smoke, to make it last longer if you want. What have you got to lose? Send me your address and I'll mail it to you. You can have my copy, I'm done with it. |
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| JoshFormerRoomie | Jul 3 2008, 09:07 AM Post #15 |
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What a lovely gesture! Josh Schneider 100 West 96th St. #2N Bloomington, MN 55420 Thank you Jezebel! |
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