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6 months - 1/2 Year. Time to celebrate before completing your first full year Great Job Angeleek!

Just do your own thing Darcy. Why worry about others and how you stack up to them or their experience as a quitter. We are all different. We all quit differently but in the end, it is our own choice as to how we quit and become free or whether we bow to our addiction and begin feeding it again. Why should you not be entitled to enjoy the benefits of being smoke free? Just do it your way because .... your way will be PERFECT for you Your quit is still relatively young. Be patient. It will continue to get better and easier as time goes by. That doesn't stop at some point. It's a continual process. Give it time, lots of time. You'll see ...............

I was on the patch for 2 days then forgot to put it back on after a morning showier on the third day. Ended up giving the patches to someone else a week later and went cold turkey from there on. It was fine. A little white-knuckled at times for the first couple of weeks but I managed to navigate the storm my addiction created for me in order to try and lure me back to feeding it. NOPE! Not doin' that!

Tomorrow brings a new perspective; a new focus. Remember, YOU are in control of your addiction - not the other way around! Make it simple. Get back to the basic rule of quitting NOPE and you'll be fine.

it was 42 degrees C here today (about 107-108 F) so the wife & I said; "what should we do today?" when we were having our morning coffee. I told her, "there's about 1/2 of the interlocking stone driveway across the street where the steam shovel destroyed that house last week. Is there something we can do with those interlock stones?" Oh boy, what a mistake saying that was! She immediately figures we're gonna build a semi-nice garden on one side of our house where we never go or even see for that matter. She wants to use the interlock stones to border it on 2 sides? It's just been dirt & a complete weed-fest ever since we moved into the place. Unfortunately, at 9:00 AM I didn't think to take a photo of the "weed-fest" but trust me, it was gross & our neighbour has a walkway leading from their driveway to the back door of their house right beside it and have been complaining about it ever since we moved in. So, wheelbarrow and pick-axe in hand with the sun already beating on us, we go across the street and start bringing back loads of interlock stones 20 at a time. Between 9:30 AM and 3:30 PM we did what I thought would be impossible and built this little Garden of Eden along the south side of the house in completely unbearable sun and heat! It turned out to be a 4-beer job with frequent trips into the AC inside the house for whatever excuse we could think of at the time. That done, our clothes dirty and soaked with sweat, we still managed to slow cook a prime rib roast of beef on the charcoal grill which turned into a work of medium rare perfection At the end of it all, and reflecting on the day, I couldn't help but think what a perfectly productive day spent alone with my partner enjoying the frustrations, hard work and unplanned difficulties of what we seemed to have accomplished capped off with a beautiful meal. I wish everyone could have many of these days. It's all unplanned and just happens when you least expect it. Oh and both of us as X-smokers .... did either one of us ever even think of having a smoke? I know I didn't and I'm pretty sure the wife didn't either

Clearly Flats won by a long shot. I guess the issue here that really matters is that chicken wings are GREAT, no matter what yer preference!

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Congratulations on marking your 8th full year smoke free Babs. That's certainly an inspirational quit and is a beacon for new quitters to strive toward. Hope you find a way to celebrate because quitting never gets old! (oops - my bad! Originally had this a year short at 7 years )

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The wings I buy are already separated into Drums and Flats. The actual wing part is removed and not included because it's junk. In this pic, the ones on the left are the drums (mini drumstick) and the ones on the right are the flats (because they are flatter - not round like drumsticks). The drums have one large bone running up the centre and the flats have two thinner bones running up the centre and separated by a few millimetres. I find there's more meat that is easier to get off the bones on the flats. The drums tend to have more tendons and grizzle near the head of the drumstick which makes getting the meat off cleanly more difficult.

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We used to call those "the Pope's Nose" lol. They always went in the compost in our house They are very fatty I believe. If you eat them it's kind of like mainlining butter

Not sure about bird size but yeah, the wings I get are very meaty! I'll try and remember to take a pic next time we have 'em I would say the meat is about as good as on a regular drumstick. There wouldn't be as much meat on either the flat or the drum on a wing but close on the one's I buy. Actually, I think the meat on the flats I buy are better Cooked but still very moist!

No you can not smoke in Vegas then stay quit when you return home. It doesn't work that way. Nicotine addiction is a lot different than occasional drinking or gambling. You're probably not addicted to either of those. IMO, you'd be nuts to throw away a 3 week investment in your healthier future. It's not as hard today for you to fight the cravings as it was three weeks ago so why cave now!

You really have to know where to buy them because you're right, most wings are skin & bones with very little chicken on them. I never eat wings at a restaurant because they are always disappointing. Over cooked and what little meat is on them is all dried out. There's a market near where I live and they sell really large wings (uncooked of course), with the wing tips cut off (because there's zero meat there). These wings are really meaty. I can only eat about 6 in one sitting - maybe 8 if I'm really hungry. Eating them out somewhere, I'd eat 12 -16 and still be hungry

You're welcome anytime. I don't normally eat sausages but for you, I'll make an exception