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A Happy St Andrew's day NOPE from me

Just for today ...NOPE !!!!

NOPE!!!

NOPE!

Nope!

Yet another dusting for the CHICKS!!

20!! Beer time!!

-4 Free participation trophy's for the chicks

Boo...it's too early for you ....get back to work !!!!

NOPE!

It means "may you have a long and healthy life" I should have said ... "Lang may yer lum reek" translates to "Long may your chimney smoke". but means ^^

Hi and welcome ... As others have said..please take time to read all the information here... The main board has pinned green squares...there is a ton of useful tips...says to help you along... Educate yourself...you will need this to fight the monster. You can do it..

Don't just abstained from cigarettes, quit them. You are done with them! Time to move on!

Denise you’re right, you don’t want to. You can’t change the past, but throw them out immediately. Read up on this site to occupy your mind. You can do this!!

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Sticks regain the championship. Great job men!

Congratulations Wee me on having such a great quit going. 4 months is a wonderful base to build your smoke free life on. Something to be proud of so go celebrate your achievement. Just don't blow too hard on those pipes .... you know what can happen

NOPE!

First and foremost, no, yesterday was NOT my birthday nor is today... I seldom put my actual birth date. Now then... Yesterday I got an email. yeah, SAME day I signed up for this forum. The email was a "happy birthday" message from some smoking forum I used to belong to. Just went there three years ago seeking advice about rolling my own cigs. I was skimming through it and came across some interesting topics on their "main smoking forum". Things like people asking about lung disease, about getting harassed, how to tell so and so... So it is like I hop on this forum and soon after get a message from the smoking forum, like the habit is trying to recruit me back. Tell me this is not as ironic as a clean-shaven hipster who hates vintage BS and listening to mainstream music on an Android phone. one particularly interesting thing that comes up though is people talking about wanting to quit. I mentioned there are quit smoking forums out there if people needed advice or online community. I did not mention any by name though as mods on most forums tend to get a stick up their butts if other forums are advertised. I find it interesting though that so many smokers WANT to quit. Eventually the habit just gets tiresome. I never thought I would want to quit. I used to make jokes about my habit. "yeah when I am 60 and already dead from lung disease..." or for smoke time - "I am going to go make my lungs a little sexier now with more tar". One time I joked to my sister that if someone has a hole in their throat, they could smoke two cigarettes at once. Yeah it was all a big joke. Then out of nowhere it was like, "I need to quit for real". I guess I just want to live. I am too good to be a smoker. Is it that ALL smokers are well aware that they are killing themselves? Maybe it is not until weird things like rattling breath happen that it becomes a little more real? Maybe the smokers and the quitters alike have or had an image of themselves rotting away in some hospital bed because they smoked too much? What about other images? Maybe some redneck, with a mullet, who you KNOW smokes even in his "classic" Camaro. Or what about that one really sexy man (shudder) who made a bunch of stop-smoking videos? Or like my nasty neighbor who sounds JUST LIKE the lady in the video below. Who wants to be those people? Or better yet, those who got throat cancer and have to use that fake voice thingy that sound like the song "Freak a zoid" by Midnight Star. Would it help smokers if they realized they are BETTER than burning their money, making their clothes and house stink, screwing up their health, risking some weird cancer, etc? I mean my GYOD if someone has ever been in trouble with credit debt, then we know the reality of "buy now pay later". Come time to pay it back, it SUCKS. It is even worse when your credit is maxed out and you cannot afford to make payments. That is about what it is probably like for people with cancer who THEN decide, "maybe I should quit". Well what the hell is the point THEN? Might as well quit when you are thinking about, "What if the anti-smoking people are right?" You have all these young people (the beginner smokers) who think they are hot stuff. Could THEY not be told they are too good, too pretty to smoke? Show them pics of Terri Hall or Debi Austin. You know those two probably didn't cram their FB accounts with selfies. They are both nasty thanks to smoking. Debi could have been beautiful if not for a hole in her throat. OK I need to shut up now. Sometimes i get a weird crave but then start thinking of the pure hatred I have about the fact that I was F'in killing myself for 15 years. About the level of hatred I have for cigarettes. Like some disgusting ex lover one now repulses at the thought. Am I becoming some kind of anti-smoking nazi? Here is Terri, who sounds like my neighbor.

0 zero 0 Another spanking delivered! i believe they are beginning to enjoy this. i am! well done sticks!

I'm off to lick my wounds...night folks xxxx

Also thanks for teaching me how to change 'settings'.

Ok !!!!

No smoking here .

-3 Joe...dropping the truth bomb. Sticks...honest as the day is long. Chicks...always up to no good.

-4 ill play along.... but look where you and Boo both posted -3 at the same time a few posts above mine... not cheating, correcting.

You did it! You won a trophy. Great Job

Chicks never win anything....deluded fool !!!!

Wow. Ol' Saint Andrew was a busy fella. I'm amazed he found time to build that golf course.

^^^ I sent Denise a PM on changing her display name

St. Andrew is also the patron saint of fishing. Just something to keep in mind when you're out the river.

-3 It's never too early for Boo!

I was trying to make it look like the Sticks win all the time while the Chicks have never won anything. I exaggerated the disparity for comedic effect. Look...Some days, if I can make myself laugh, I count that as a win.

Haha Doreen Finlay and Tristan are from our fantastic Dundee and took the web by storm a few months ago..!! What.. where are you from.. the dark side of the moon?? "Lang may yet lum reek"

Learn from this. Whatever you do, don't let this control you and allow you to continue smoking again. If you want to get rid of that crappy feeling that you "caved in", stop smoking immediately. No need to wait until tomorrow, after this or after that; just quit now.

Three in a day is not a high volume to smoke, unlike regulars who go through about a pack. I was using three a day for four days before i quit. So tomorrow, just use none. If you can manage to keep it down to three, then using none is not that much harder. Just try not to light up that first one when you wake up. That will set the day of wanting more if you light up. In other words - it will make the craving worse than if you left it alone. Many have quit successfully, you can too.

Welcome to double digits, Pig Lover!!

Spanks again Chicks!

Geez, how does it take almost a month to get results from a test? Ok, Ok, I know. We're talking modern day medicine but still. That's a lot more beet root

I don't think anyone would mind you being here. You are not even close to the first one here to have relapse, struggles with Quit, etc. Tyme, I did not know you used to be in medical or some sector of caregiving. I guess things we do most of our lives, we cannot just stop on a dime. We cannot escape who we are, what we do. Duty calls, we answer. I never was a caregiver to any capacity but things I am good at, cannot avoid. I guess the best you can do is put together a battle plan. If nothing else, give yourself some credit for what cigarettes you DID avoid during the attempted quits.

Help ..... I need a translator please .............................. Oink, oink.

Never give up..trying to give up.. I have that many failed attempts in my past ,I couldn't count...I'm the last one to sermon anyone ..I'm just here to help ijn any way I can... I have been Tonys career for many years,and understand the struggles you are facing.. It took me a long time to finally put the cigs down...it was only when my own health was declining I quit for good... My advice...stick around here...keep trying...stay with friends... You can do this.... I know you can...and you will....xxx

Tyme, Spending time on this site reading the information available here and watching some of the videos is a vital step in undoing the conditioning we put ourselves through as addicts. Education is the greatest weapon you have in fighting nicotine addiction. This forum is a great tool and I'm glad to see you will be making use of it. That's the spirit.

Sarge said he'd quit when they got to a Buck. Then he "couldn't afford them" at Two Dollars. Completely bypassed $3.00 but *swore* he'd never pay 4 bucks a pack. When he finally quit, they were $5.50 a pack (locally, Midwest - Ohio, U.S.) Price doesn't matter to a Junkie. Price. Does. Not. Matter. Ultimately, it was Health Scare. High blood pressure + High Cholesterol + High blood sugar + (a number of other minor issues all diagnosed at the same time) that made Sarge make some dramatic lifestyle changes ... only one of which was quitting smoking. EZPZ

LMAO...

You window lickers all sounded so smart in this thread I think I am in the wrong group. As for my advise- do t wait. No reason. You could be one week into your quit by then. And if you got ants in your pants and feel like you need to smoke to calm them, take off the pants and do something. Pushup work to tire the body and mind. Or leave pants on and walk. And walk. And walk just keep busy till tired.

Somewhere around 40 years smoking for me too....before that fateful day in Nov. of 2013... thats when, I didn't just say to myself I wanted to quit... I TOLD my self I WAS quitting....no more....no matter how "hard" I thought it would be to not smoke, I told myself it was "tyme" (see what I did there...lol). Sure... Your gonna have the normal bumps in the road on this journey, but we all did...we got past them...after a year quit, you will look back and realize, it wasn't that bad... The hardest thing about quitting is getting our mind on board with the fact that it's all about N.O.P.E...period! . Once you completely accept it, you won't seem to fight it... in in the words of Sarge...it becomes "Easy Peezy" take it it one day at a time, and remember we are here if you need us to "talk you down" there is no shame in having help,through this...that's why we all stick around!