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Six humorless ogres played Solitaire cards

False, I've played golf and I've played frisbee but never both at the same time. TNP goes to the beach regularly

Thank you all for your good cheer!

I miss purely hypothetical nonsense

Stayed hot and dry everywhere soaks

Racing our wagon

Huge congratulations to you on your first year down, Sammy! You worked hard for this (and I hope your dog is still getting lots of extra walks). Time to get out and celebrate your amazing accomplishment.

Welcome, ceeray! As others said, we can all relate to the push and pull of wanting to quit and knowing it's time but still being afraid to fully commit. I came up with countless reasons why tomorrow or next week would be a better time to quit than today, but of course when next week arrived it didn't feel any easier, so it was back to maybe tomorrow. That can go on endlessly until you just dive in and decide that today is the day and that's it. I also played the cut down game to get used to not smoking at certain times/places. Maybe it helped, maybe it didn't, but you've already done that now so at this point it's only prolonging your misery. You clearly want to be a non-smoker and the only way to get to where you want to be is to put them aside once and for all and just plow through the difficult days to get to the other side. No one was more surprised than I was to learn that it really was doable for me (not just for other people) once I truly made the commitment and refused to allow for the possibility of ever turning back. Quitting comes with lots of side shows (like the yammering in your head telling you just one more, or maybe just one more pack), and some people find various quit smoking aids helpful, but no matter how you go about it, it's really comes down to making up your mind that you no longer smoke and that you are in it for the long haul, whatever life might throw at you. You can do this, ceeray, and along the way you can come here and read, talk, play games, laugh, rant and rave — whatever you need in the moment — and we'll be here cheering you on.

Perfect pick, you're a natural. Yay for you, Saz.

Rants Righteous assertions never take smarts clown

I'm so glad you were able to catch him and get it back. And thanks very much, Saz!

Usually requires effort

Oh no! Did the ferocious tyrant steal your 5 letter word?

Sets every time

Herds of urials sampled endives salad

Inviting new experiences

Amazing. It doesn't really feel as if it's been 5 years, and I'm not sure if that's good or bad. I have no great words of wisdom, have had no miraculous rebirth, no huge gains in confidence, no wonderful new happenings in my life (yet, but I'm working on that). Many more bad things than good have happened since I quit, but none of it was because I quit. What is absolutely certain, though, is that had I not quit poisoning myself with cigarettes when I did, my health would be drastically and irreparably worse today. So that has to be more than enough since at some point it's all that matters. Oh, and my house smells much better now, and I love that part, too. I still get some mild cravings/thoughts here and there, but am never, ever, sorry that I quit. So now I'm ready to celebrate and very grateful that I still can. Cheers to all, and if you're on the fence take the leap -- life really will go on and you'll be giving yourself the best chance to be around to enjoy all the ups and downs of it.

Bob looks like a hard worker. Good job, Bob.

I am going to move into Weegie's house. At least on Sundays.

Really expensive stuff

Bashful rhino investigated neighboring giraffes sweet

Took every explanation to heart bites

Took a big leap eventually faith

Look at you plowing through that quit. Congratulations, and 7 months is a big deal!

True, or at least I used to but it may have just been an excuse to sit around with a beer and a smoke. TNP plays golf regularly