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Nah...NOPE!

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4 months from holiday in Texas !!

Canada's professional football season is now over with the heavily favoured Calgary Stampeders falling behind the Toronto Argonauts late in the Grey Cup game played in Ottawa yesterday. Toronto edged Calgary 27-24 to secure the win. Second year in a row the Stampeders have been heavily favoured to win yet have come up short late in the game. A typical Canadian Football Final with adverse weather conditions throughout the game (yes that's snow in the photo) and lots of late game drama. More than a few hang-overs being nursed today

the title of this thread, "slap slap slap slap"... Was it originally about Bakon enjoying himself to a princess Diana commemorative plate?

He's making a list, checking it twice, Gonna find out who's naughty and nice... It's spanking time again.

Reci got it,!.. guess that makes me zero.. well,done guys!...nice thumping!

Just do not give in cause you have made it a short distance but it is progress. If you give in and light up, it is back to square one.

I watched a little of that game yesterday. I love snow football

So true, I quit (again) because I was feeling so bad. I was 3 packets a day sometimes a 4th would get opened. Waking up was horrendous days I felt awful, I would literally only start feeling ok in the evening after a few drinks and the cigs would be non stop. I decided to quit again a week ago and I have not felt better for many many months. Every night I think I may just have one ... but I don’t, and the first think I fell in the morning is happiness that I didn’t ruin my quit. The first time I quit in March this year I kidded myself that the odd one was ok. It’s not as one leads to another NOPE is the only way. I am now on day 5 so it’s early days but each day is progress

It's about that time...

I want it ALL.....the quit AND feeling better Boo...You are so right...the enemy is the cigarette. “Quitting is awesome. Smoking sucks” You put it perfectly into perspective.

Do come back.

Last time I saw a similar thread on a forum it was titled only "Nun". It was a thread about what kind of meat priests eat on Sunday.

NOPE!!!

NOPE - I do not smoke anymore.

+3 Now, if you'll pardon me...I've got to find just the right spanking gif.

Yes - we burned them big time Two

Won! STICKS RULE!

20 !! Great Job Sticks !!

Hang in there T2B It isn't pleasant particularly in the early part of your quit and having a constant, unpleasant personal situation to deal with doesn't help but, you know that smoking will only make you feel even worse so please don't even consider that. You will soon get to the point where you are not struggling so much with your quit and better able to devote your energy to your other situation.

-2..nice try...NOPE!!!!

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Good job Argonauts. I should have watched that game. Instead, I was trying to follow the drama that is the search for the next head football coach at the University of Tennessee unfold. What is typically a cut-and-dry process involving contract terms and buyouts produced more drama than a soap opera yesterday.

-2..... good morning/ night Dor

I love when the wife puts makeup on me...... Your hot stuff and your husband looks pretty too!

Merry Christmas. Apologies for the cigarette references/images in this video.

Merry Spankmas Chicks!

OO Grey Cup Game starts soon ..... can't miss that one

The mental fog. Those dramatic ebbs and flows where you feel lethargic one minute and energetic the next. The obsessive thoughts. They all pass. The story we tell ourselves matters. Are you feeling these things because you quit or are you feeling these things because you were a smoker. The quitting process is one that leads to freedom and improved health. Well worth a bit of temporary discomfort for the dividends payed by the process. Smoking, on the other hand, only offers slavery and illness. Good riddance. It helped me immensely when I stopped blaming the quit and focused on the real enemy: the cigarette. Quitting is awesome. Smoking sucks.

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SO cute!

There are plenty of stories in the media about the dangers of smoking but it becomes a little more real when reading about it on forums or wherever from actual people who have faced problems.

Way back in the day, lol, they had face-to-face support groups. Imagine that? 40 Years of Progress? I am attaching an article below from the January 19, 2004 issue of TIME magazine. It talks about the decline in smoking rates in America since the original release of the U.S. Surgeon General's report in January of 1964. The author was apparently led to believe that a whole lot more quitters would be successful if they would just stop trying to go cold turkey and use the many quitting aids available that can "double a person's chance of success." One thing I want to comment on is how the article points out that smoking declined from 42% to 23% in the past 40 years, but how the drop-off stalled in 1990. The dates are interesting. The article is saying that there are a whole lot more effective ways to quit than by going cold turkey. It is basically talking about NRT products and Zyban. What is interesting is that almost all of these products came into widespread use in the 1990's--the years where the rapid decline in smoking cessation actually stopped. Nicotine gum was first approved for use in America in 1984, by prescription only. In 1991 and 1992, four patches were approved for prescription use. In 1996 all controls broke loose--the gum and two of the four patches went over-the-counter and Zyban (bupropion) was just coming into the fray. So now we have all of these miracle products available, many without prescription. If these products were so good at increasing success, and if they are being used by so many people, you would think that smoking rates would be plummeting now when compared to when people just had to rely on their own resolve to quit. Again, read the following line from the article below: "The drop-off in smoking stalled in 1990 and has hardly budged since then." Lets hope not too many miracle products for smoking cessation get introduced in the future as it may result in skyrocketing smoking rates. The real way to once again increase the long-term success rate of people trying to quit is to help them to understand that they are fighting an addiction to nicotine, and that to win that fight and to stay free forever is as simple as making and sticking to a commitment to Never Take Another Puff! Joel Y O U R T I M E / H E A L T H Stub Out That Butt! But don't try to go it alone. Here are some tricks that make it easier to quit By CHRISTINE GORMAN Monday, Jan. 19, 2004 More than 42% of adult Americans smoked when the first Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health was published. Today, 40 years later, fewer than 23% do. That's good news, but it could be better; a lot better. The drop-off in smoking stalled in 1990 and has hardly budged since then. Surveys show that 70% of tobacco users want to quit, but kicking the nicotine habit isn't easy. What a lot of smokers don't realize is that the most popular method of quitting; just stopping, a.k.a. going cold turkey; is the least effective. Studies show that getting intensive short-term counseling, taking drugs like Zyban (an antidepressant) or using one of the many nicotine aids (gum, patch, inhaler, nasal spray, lozenge) all double the chance of success. Preliminary results suggest that combining these methods will increase success rates even more. The trick is to find out what works best for you. For counseling, you don't have to go into full-fledged psychoanalysis; you can pick up practical strategies from various quit-smoking telephone hotlines (for a list of numbers as well as tips, visit smokefree.gov). As for nicotine products, make sure you're using them the right way. You need to chew the gum slowly, for example, not swallowing the saliva until the nicotine can be absorbed through the cheek, says Dr. Elliot Wineburg, who has used everything from drugs to hypnosis at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City to help hard-core smokers quit. Many people try to make do with as little nicotine as possible, which is a mistake. "You don't want the brain to go into withdrawal," Wineburg says. It's never too late to quit. As the years go by, an ex-smoker's risk of heart disease and stroke diminishes until it's essentially the same as that of a person who has never smoked, says Dr. Corinne Husten of the Centers for Disease Control's Office on Smoking and Health. Alas, the risk of lung cancer never quite gets down to what it would have been without smoking. "Even with cancer, people respond better to chemotherapy if they quit," Husten says. Best of all, of course, would be not to take up the habit in the first place.

Lisa...just want to point out one thing: Definition: Slip - An accidental misstep causing a fall. Choice - the act of choosing involving judgement. Lighting a cigarette is not an accident. It requires you to make a choice. Please get right back on the horse and make the choice to stay on. Let us know before you light up that you need help or support. You can do this!

^^^ YES! Commitment, commitment, commitment!! Be committed to yourself! This is the way through the difficult times. There's no shortcuts unfortunately.

Roethlisberger still playing?

I’m keeping it together Doreen...barely...my elderly, abusive mother is my “trigger” as I have mentioned before & she is just terrible right now. My sister needs my help with her which is only fair....I am really struggling but I’ll be okay. If I didn’t have this mother thing always hanging over my head I could do this more easily...it’s hard enough. Anyway thanks for letting me vent ?

Frustrated with this as well . It's a battle fighting chronic illness trying to maintain some form of excersise while battling everything going against you from being able to make even a small amount of headway . This too shall pass ?

Good grief...for some reason this gave me a laugh...what's going on with the pants ????..lol...