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I thought there may be a few of you, RN! :) Glad you like it, but I'll stick with those pretend heart shaped pendants. :)

Saw this in a product catalog - Cuz nothing sales I love you like an Anatomical Heart Pendant. :)

No smoking for me today!!! Still enjoying beautiful weather in November. Who wants to ruin that with smoke?

Hey Sarah ! Great to see ya. I'm sure the rest of the boys (and some of the girls) will be by soon to say hi. :)

Great to see you Julie! :)

I had a smoking dream the other night too. Probably because I was reading that other thread about. Over two years later, the dreams are still so vivid and you wake feeling like it really happened. Such an odd sensation. Great part, is that its just a dream and we're still non-smokers! :) YAY US!

Actually, it went a way pretty quickly - within the first couple months, I think. If I am around smoke, like a campfire, it acts up pretty badly.

GREAT JOB TEW!!!! One Year is so AWESOME!!!!! Do something super nice for your self today!!!

I love these!!! Even though we know some things about some people, I always learn something new about my quit friends!!! :0) Thanks for sharing!!! :)

Where in the world are you? near Denver, Colorado (my heart is in San Diego, where I grew up through college). When and how did you quit? July 9, 2013 - Cold turkey/Allen Carr/Quit Smoking Support Forums. Did smoking affect your health that you know of? Fo Sho!!! I had to clear my throat all the time! Drove me NUTS!!! It was one of the main reasons I quit. Trying to talk to people, then cough, cough, hack, hack. Gross! That may not sound like a health issue, but smoking was obviously not healthy for my throat. Has quitting significantly improved things? Yes, in so many ways. I save time and money. I don't stink. I don't feel ashamed. I have more self-confidence/self-esteem. I'm not having to clear my throat every 5 seconds. I feel healthier. What is the last music album you bought? The B-52's most recent. I was a little disappointed. :( Next on my list is Twenty-One Pilots. Funny how "album" has a different meaning today. :) Are you a parent? Yep. One 13 y/o boy, one 14 y/o girl. Animal wise, we have three dogs, a new kitten, one chicken, six head of cattle and bees. Tell me an interesting fact about you... I'm not that interesting. Even the farm animals are mostly my husband's thing. :) What is your current (or your last) job? Full-time Homemaker. Part-Time I work for a dental equipment manufacturing company that sells all around the U.S., some international and to the military.

Cute guinea pig video. :) https://www.facebook.com/TheDailyShare/videos/494370854055624/?fref=nf

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Keep going Quitters!!! You are truly inspirational!!!!!

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Not afraid to be around them anymore, but don't really like to be around them when they are smoking either. Gross - it stinks. Got a massage from a women the other day and while she didn't totally stink, I could smell it, and heard it on her voice and her cough (from the lavander oil, she said, but i wasn't coughing). So happy to be a non-smoker!

This place is different than other forums - IMO. Quitting smoking can be very emotional and the people here just all seem so real. I have been on other forums - gardening, exercise, sex (just kidding on the last one :) ) . They feel very superficial, and I don't stick around long. I would never share pictures or "real" things about myself on other forums (Facebook doesn't count). Here, it is a really supportive environment and feels very "family" like. There are people who I don't agree with at all, and some that I totally click with, but I love you all the same cuz you all have something to offer, and we all support each other almost no matter what. And honestly, it is a great feeling when someone says, "your post really helped me." Because there were sure a lot of people who helped me. Happy to pay it forward! :) (Even if I don't get here as often as I want to anymore. ) xoxo! :heart: :heart: :heart:

WOOT WOOT!!!! :)

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This is soooooo true!!! God, I HATED being a smoker. I hide it from people I didn't want to know. I was so happy to have smoker friends, but always hated that I had to smoke. Quitting was such a self-esteem builder!!!! I don't have to hide, I don't have to stink! I DON'T HAVE TO SMOKE! The hardest part of quitting is the anticipation of quitting. We've been programmed to believe that it is soooo hard. But it really can be "Easy Peasy," right Sarge? This doesn't mean that there aren't moments of "Hey, a smoke sounds kinda good right now." or "Wish I had a smoke." There are still those moments, but they are few and far between the longer we are quit. and easier to say NOPE to. On the other hand, if we smoke, even one puff, the addiction will return quickly and the mind games will be difficult to overcome. NOPE! Even cigars, Bandito!!!

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the stuffing. daylight savings time or not?

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