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Juan and Chris

I understand the trepidation in announcing even a small victory lest you should trip up but let us congratulate and hold you both up and honor your accomplishment thus far. To overcome such an addiction is contrary to how the brain operates and shows me who is really in charge here, and so I bow to you both!
 
Paladin said:
I understand the trepidation in announcing even a small victory lest you should trip up but let us congratulate and hold you both up and honor your accomplishment thus far. To overcome such an addiction is contrary to how the brain operates and shows me who is really in charge here, and so I bow to you both!
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Thank you Paladin, you are most gracious. My victories are simple little daily ones. Compared to what so many others face, mine are insignificant. When I consider the obstacles I could be dealing with instead, what I have before me seems trivial. One day at a time, like a friend from long ago used to tell me, just live one day at a time.

You too should be commended for all you have overcome Paladin!
 
Congratulations J23 and Chris! I echo everything the others have said. Never smoked with much intensity, but I gave up alcohol over nine years ago. :D
 
Thanks for the addict chow everyone! I'm so happy about quitting smoking I wanna stick feathers in my hair and do the naked eagle woop woop dance around the kiva.

Chris
 
Thank you to Lunamoth as well!

China Cat Sunflower said:
Thanks for the addict chow everyone! I'm so happy about quitting smoking I wanna stick feathers in my hair and do the naked eagle woop woop dance around the kiva.
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I'm with you in spirit Chris, but trust me on this one...if I did the naked woop woop dance I would scare away every eagle in the kiva. ;)
 
oh, thanks for that . Once when I was little i built a "kinda kiva" ;then. My Nan had an old water tank burried in her back yard,It was made of corrugated iron, but it was fullof sand, not water. (such is life in the outback)LOL. anyway, it had a hole big enough for me to get into it... so I dug it out ( on the inside,) and proceeded to take my blanket and pillow in it and attempted to sleep in it. It took me about 3 or 4 days to hollow it out from the inside, by the way. Nan never stopped me, I guess it kept me out of her hair for a while. LOL. I didnt end up sleeping in it..... I got too scared of snakes and stuff climbing in it after me. LOL. (just thought I would share that). lol
 
Namaste all,

did you know that $cientology actively promotes smoking since the use of tobacco will prevent cancer?

all the warnings about its risks are made by government agencies that are controlled by psychiatrists.

-_-


i don't smoke, of course, since i'm not a $cientologist and have read enough and seen enough evidence to be convinced of the harmful nature of long term inhaled tobacco use.

metta,

~v
 
I remember when everyone smoked and you could smoke anywhere. On the plane, in the theater, in the damn hospital waiting room! God, those were the days. I picked up a one of those photo commemorative magazines of Frank Sinatra to while the short wait at the Safeway check stand. Every picture of Frank he's smoking. There he is with Jack Nicklaus. Smoking. There's the whole rat pack...all smoking. Sigh... Damn surgeon general.

Chris
 
Yeah, I'm still hangin' in there, Allah be praised! 5 weeks today! One day I'll get through the whole day and then realize late in the evening that I haven't even thought about it all day. I living for that day! I'm still struggling along, but it's slowly getting better. My sense of smell is coming back in weird little fits and starts. I'm starting to hawk up some amazing crud!

Chris
 
I wish my sense of smell (and taste) would come back. They seem to have been replaced by a horrendous allergic response to life. My sinuses are so congested I haven't breathed through my nose in a couple months...hmmm, right about the time I quit.

*Sigh*
 
juantoo3 said:
I wish my sense of smell (and taste) would come back. They seem to have been replaced by a horrendous allergic response to life. My sinuses are so congested I haven't breathed through my nose in a couple months...hmmm, right about the time I quit.

*Sigh*
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could be some 'cleansing' going on. Like CCS mentions about coughin up crap, for a while your body doesn't really believe it isn't going to get innundated with smoke again. So it holds onto its layer of crud. Once it believes this is over your body will start releasing the crud...clogging lungs, sinuses whereever...

Your mustache and teeth will return to normal color, you'll notice how much you salt your food and what you really smell like in the toilet.
 
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China Cat Sunflower said:
Yeah, I'm still hangin' in there, Allah be praised! 5 weeks today! One day I'll get through the whole day and then realize late in the evening that I haven't even thought about it all day. I living for that day! I'm still struggling along, but it's slowly getting better. My sense of smell is coming back in weird little fits and starts. I'm starting to hawk up some amazing crud!

Chris
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The good news is you never have to smoke again...ever. And now that the nicer weather is coming, have you increased your outdoor activities?
 
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