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G’day NOPE .....Not One Puff Ever.... (replace Ever with Min,Hour, Day as required)

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Congratulations on your 9th anniversary @babs609, i hope you stop in and tell us how you've been because we miss you around here!

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And since Jo already suggested that liking this song meant I needed to turn in my "man card", might as well post it again.

It's not one puff today that gets me the "ever " quit I want tomorrow . Lets quit .. For Ever !

As they kept increasing prices, switched to unfiltered, cut the pack in the middle to create twice as many cigs. Smoked them down to the butt holding a corner of the cig by the fingernails .... and thought it was smart. Also since I was 'only' smoking 1/2 a cig at a time, it was healthy smoking. How we twist ourselves up to feel good about this.

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I don't think I'm alone here...some of us have those songs that we like in spite of not wanting to admit that we like them. For me personally, many of these songs are tunes that were popular in the eighties. They were songs that my sister liked, so me being the pesky little brother that I was spoke often of how terrible those songs were. It was a pointless debate, but I would say things like: "Duran Duran sucks! Van Halen rules!" Heard one of those songs while I was eating lunch this afternoon. Now, I can confess that I looked this song up and listened to it again.

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Walk /done

Got my walk thanks guys and gals . 40 minutes this morn , 40 tonight . I guess looking back I still got lots of excersise looking after three yards .. just had no energy left to walk after that and weather was energy deleting . Just reading here today what you had to say helped . tx

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G’day NOPE .....Not One Puff Ever.... (replace Ever with Min,Hour, Day as required)

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That old head rush was what pulled me into being a full-fledged smoker. I was doing a bit of underage drinking with my friends. One of my buddies told me: "if you smoke while you drink, it will make you buzz harder." Smoked about ten cigarettes that night. Woke up the next day wanting more nicotine. And an addiction was born. Fortunately, most of the stupid decisions I made as a teenager were easily left in the past. Those cigarettes I smoked that night represented a bad decision that would continue to be repeated for the next twenty-five years.

@Dianne, do not restart your exercise program until your Diverticulitis symptoms have completely resolved, and even then, I would wait another week, after that. You don’t want to put any extra stress on your gut.

I never experienced any peer pressure, nor was asked to hold cigarettes by my friends that smoked (guess that means they were real friends). I just thought it looked cool to blow smoke out of your mouth. The head rush when I first managed to inhale without coughing sealed the deal

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Can someone tell me why the ticker double posts .. I was so proud I finally figured this out or thought I did lol . Thanks .

I either do smoke or don't smoke . I choose don't . Done with that . It's not one puff today that gets me the "ever " quit .

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The five senses . Sight , hearing , touch , taste , smell . Whats in a cigarette ? How did Big T grab your attention ? Advertisements on T. V. are some of the biggest lures to sell products , from tobacco , to junk food , to alcohol , to appliances , home furnishings, and the list goes on . Big T hires professionals who know how to manipulate you and me . Professionals who know what you need to hear to buy cigarettes and what you want to see to attract you , like packaging . They know that touch and feel is important to you if said as well as hearing seeing , touching and smell . Menthols and regulars are an example . They know that taste can trick you . Lighter , stronger . Bubble gum flavours in vaping another example . They knew cartoon characters and Drs and movie stars and Drs can influence you . Feeling important , feeling thinner , feeling empowered were tools they used . Words can be deceiving and dangerous . They prey mainly on the young . That's when we all started with one . Wasit Curiosity ? Lack of self esteem ? Why did you start ? What truth have you learned now to quit and stay quit ? Discernment is important . What lies will you believe ? Truth sets us free . People look up to idols . But let me say , smoking became our idols because of only two things : addiction and choice . How will you break free from addiction ?

Congrats, @babs609! Nine years is quite the achievement! Celebrate it and KTQ!

Congrats! What an accomplishment!

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Congratulations on 9 years @babs609

Congratulations on 9 years. You are an example of how it can be done.

Congrats on 9 years!!!

Congrats 9 years....someday I will be there too thanks for the example that it possible!

I will behave and wait a bit before starting back to exercising. It frustrating as I really liked it and how much better I felt and to be honest exercising and not smoking were/are 2 things I felt I had control of over still. I know I will get back to it soonish so I just need to hang in. In good news I did find a good indoor place I can walk out of the heat which only a 5 minute drive from my house and I can walk there any time between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. so I excited about that

Congrats on 9 years, Babs. Way to go!

Congratulations on 9 years smoke free, Babs! Great job!

Top-shelf quit. Congratulations Babs.

Hope you feel better soon @Katgirl

I heard this song on a commercial last night. I don't remember what they were trying to sell...good song though.

Thanks, Ace! One thing I will do is visit my son-in-law’s grave at Arlington. He was killed in action , in Afghanistan, in 2010. Watched pro athletes exercise today. First Wimbledon, then soccer, and tonight basketball.

Got plenty of exercise yesterday. Walked to sites of interest in Washington, D.C. from our hotel. Probably walked about 4 miles total. Nice day. Today it’s on to the museums.

Swam 2000 meters this morning and have an afternoon run scheduled as well This week I started a 16 week training plan- 2 workouts per day x 6 days week. Mondays are my rest days. Finally a reason to look forward to Mondays!!

Farmers walk ....looks more relaxing than power walking ...lol...

My mom smoked through both her pregnancies. It was the norm back then, heck the Dr smoked during examinations! I remember my mom having us girls light her cig for her when she was driving. Back then we didn't know how to inhale and she smoked menthols so I never thought that was very pleasant. My dad on the other hand smoked Pall Mall unfiltered so it was easy to go get a butt from any one of the ashtrays laying around and get our fix. Ugh, I think of it now and its gross Funny out of a family of five my brother was the only one of us who never picked up smoking. Hated it in fact....

Day 40 - Who are you and what have you done with Dianne?? Dianne who use to hate to exercise and always joked she needed a drill sergeant to drag her out of bed to exercise.....Dianne who had no energy ....who is this Dianne who getting up early to walk at 6:30 am because she does not want to miss out on it from the heat.....this Dianne who eating chia seeds, Greek yogurt, beets, power greens ect ect instead of chips ....this Dianne who doing online fat burning work outs and ab work outs.....and looking forward to doing them....I liking this Dianne...I liking this new adventure.....I liking my new found breath and sense of well being....I sorry if I make this sound easy...it is not and I have had my struggles and some really bad scary moments.....so yes it is hard... it can be hard but it also can be incredibly good and freeing ...if you here and thinking of quitting and see my words....it not all bad when you quit nor does it have to be....take stock of the good....take stock of hope ...yes educate yourself (there is a huge selection of information here...yay to learning all we can to free ourselves) but also spend sometime here playing too....there games....videos...ways to socialize and there even a confession thread lol