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So run. Run! Sarge guarantees after the first mile-and-a-half you won't be wanting to smoke again for at least 3 or 4 hours. And after that if you still want to smoke, run some more. Keep running until you no longer want to smoke or the anger goes away. Sooner or later both will happen. With or without running. With or without a cigarette. Sooner or later both will happen. You will no longer want to smoke AND the anger goes away. Easy Peasy

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1. Do you like Blue cheese dressing? Number 1 favorite dressing. 2. Have you ever smoked cigarettes? Like a chimney ... for 27 years 3. Do you own a gun? So many we lost count years ago There are multiple gunsafes in The Gun Room. We have a Gun Room 4. What flavor Kool Aid was your favorite? Black Cherry 5. Do you get nervous before doctor's appointments? Depends 6. What do you think of hot dogs? Two thumbs up !! 7. Favorite Christmas movie? Bah humbug! 8. What do you prefer to drink in the morning? Coffee 9. Can you do push ups? Currently at 58, going for 75 12. Do you have A.D.D.? Undiagnosed, but quite likely. 13. Do you wear glasses? Yes 14. Who was your childhood idol? Edison 15. Name 3 thoughts at this moment: Time to run. Sooooo hungry. This Turkey sammich is awesomesauce 16. Name 2 or 3 drinks you regularly drink. Water, water & more water Coffee Irish Whiskey 17. Current worry? That recent gall bladder pain [diagnosed gallstones] is actually a liver tumor slowly bringing death ... 18. Current hate right now? All forms of WooWoo - especially religion. 19. Favorite place to be? 1000 feet up any Big Wall cliff. 20. How will you bring in the New Year? Sound asleep 21. Where would you like to go? Mars 22. Name one person who will complete this? Bob 23. Do you own slippers? Big fuzzy warm ones -yes, of course. 24. What color shirt are you wearing? Black. Always black. 25. Do you like sleeping on satin sheets? Don't know. Never had satin. 26. Can you whistle? Yes 27. Where are you now? Garage 28. Would you be a pirate? No 29. What songs do you sing in the shower? 70s classic rock 30. Favorite Girl's Name? Annabelle 31. Favorite boy's name? Cosmo 32. What's in your pocket right now? American Arms .22 magnum ...and some Dubble Bubble 33. Last thing that made you laugh? Random post on reddit.com 34. What vehicle do you drive? Ford truck 35. Worst injury you've ever had? Shattered ankle 36. How many TVs are in your house? Two

That's covered in a different thread. https://www.quittrain.com/topic/7605-describe-your-penis-with-a-movie-title/ Easy Peasy

It's a good place to be to not even remember what it was like to smoke. You'll get here, too, folks. You just have to wait it out long enough. Easy Peasy

Jason's birthday is July, Jimmy. Sarge was born the day Jason quit. Easy Peasy [And thanks guys - Sarge forgot until Jimmy reminded him on Jason's Facebook page this morning]

To be fair: Unicorn Farts help. A lot. You just can't count on 'em coming 'round every time you need one. Easy Peasy Smell the rainbow

Every time Sarge wanted a smoke, he hit the basement treadmill for a mile. Takes your mind off it for the immediate 8 to 10 minutes, and kills the urge for the next 2 to 4 hours. There were 1800 [ish] miles logged that first year. ;) Easy Peasy

Sarge still carries around a 20-year-old expired military ID on this day, because on this day: free stuff. ;) Easy Peasy

You don't get it because you are still suffering under the delusion that you are not an addict. When you know that you are an addict, you know why this shit happens. It's baked right into the definition of being an addict. Easy Peasy

Reset that ticker. You. Fooked. Up. Easy Peasy

Also works quite well for us common, everyday,garden-variety narcissistic jackasses. Easy Peasy

Difficult is mostly imaginary. In the mind. Thoughts easily brushed aside in the face of bigger, more legit issues. It really is mind over matter. If you don't mind ... it don't matter. Easy Peasy

> The craving's are real! > The pain is real! > The mind-******* of 'just one' is REAL. >do not want any sugar-coated BS about >'how easy it is' It is as easy or as hard as you want to make it. You are in complete control. Easy Peasy

> how can I do this??? How can you not? We have to do this. Easy Peasy

Indeed Easy Peasy

Yes. Really. Unless you fully embrace that you are and will always be an addict, you will fail. You. Will. Fail. You seem to be taking this as a personal attack. Sarge assures you it is not. But it will happen. Easy Peasy

The Sarge merely points out fact. Any associated shame is of your own free fill. Sarge is not ashamed and shouts it to the world: I AM AN ADDICT. You are ashamed and in denial. You will remain a smoker. Enjoy that next cigarette, but when you do. remember what was said here. Remember what was said here. It's not as if you haven't been told again and again ... with the same damnedable outcome every damned time. It's time to wake the **** up, Tiffany Scew your misplaced shame. Do you want to live or not? Easy Peasy

It is, in fact, quite true. Not only are you an addict, but you are an addict in ridiculous and continual, long-term [and possibly terminal] denial. You can't control shit about your addiction, as evidenced by the past 3+ years of failure Get over it. Dig yourself out of denial...or fail again. You are an addict. It's not "merely semantics", it's a fact. Until you full-on, no doubt, no denial can acknowledge your addiction without difficulty and without "having a hard time"... until you can do this you will fail again. And you will continue to do so, again and again. This, The Sarge promises. Easy Peasy

It doesn't. Unless you smoke... and then it keeps going ... forever. Don't smoke ... and it goes away. Easy Peasy

A cigarette is never a need. Never. It is always and forever a want. All the way up until the moment you no longer want. Easy Peasy

All that bullshit goes away if you just hold out long enough. Gone away. Never to come back again. Just keep markin' time ... Easy Peasy

Those people are idiots. They could do it if they wanted to. They just wanted to smoke instead. Don't be like them. Easy Peasy

A successful quit starts with one day quit. A successful body builder starts with one day of moving heavy shit. See the similarirties? [A] Start. [2] One Day. [iii] Repeat ad infinitum. Easy Peasy