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Overall, I think Bakon threw out some good advice. Smoking is an addiction, and it's easy to just transfer all that addictive energy to other things. Also, guilt about not doing things, and falling into must-urbatory attitude. Moderation. Both Bakon and the Buddha on the same page. Who woulda thunk?

Why has meat vs vegetarian diet entered this debate???

Don't think this needs to be seen as disgusting. There's lots of cleaning up to be done on this planet. Wish there were meters for how much litter was being fished out of ocean daily, how many women avoided abuse, how many drunk drivers were pulled off the road, and so on. Reversal of bad habits ( that wreck people and the earth) are always reasons to rejoice, in my world.

Not so in my world. Women of all ages pay it forward, with compliments. What men think (about our bodies: pro/con) is mostly over there, not here, as we are the goddesses. Haha. truth, 100% The culprit related to body issues... is media world and its warped messages...promoting smoking, anorexia, excess, eternal youth, porn, violence... and objectification. Our bodies are not cars or buses or motorcycles...to wreck, or pimp up, or to park and forget about...or whatever....(I digress)....sorry.

hahahaha man, bakon, you always make me laugh so much i gotta go to sleep

well, hell, that's really good news :wub:

Is this the longest Bakon post ever? Thank you for your effort. This must be something you think is important. For women the weight gain after quitting is like punishment, not a reward, it sucks, and many women relapse because they can't stand the weight gain. If more men were like you and said, oh darling, sit down next to me on the couch, you smell so good, and you are so healthy since you quit smoking --- that would be heaven on earth. Star to you for starting up your small corner of heaven. Talk to other menfolk and help them to see healthy women are women who don't smoke. Meanwhile, the steely Goddesses will do what they want, and they are awesome.

This is an awesome and beautiful blood, sweat and tears number. It really blows my mind!

Don't care what you say, women all more deathly afraid of being fat slobs than dying from smoking. Don't blame - exercistimists?? - blame air brushing and porno sites. That said, your advice was nice, but steely goddesses do it all, and do it well, and they have nice big healthy hearts along with tight buns. Go, Goddesses!

Does laughing and crying count as exercise?

I guess people will do what they want. My sister died last year from colon cancer. She never had that baseline colonoscopy. People are free to kill themselves any way they choose. People are also free to live as they choose. My sister was a nurse, she smoked, and she didn't get tests. Why she did all this is, I guess, complicated. I was angry about it...but you just have to love people where they are or life becomes a bitter pill. When I'm not going insane from quitting smoking, I feel pretty happy about it...it makes me giddy happy!. I can only save myself, and I also laugh at my own jokes. Haha.

~ nope ~

Went to candlelight service for St. Pat's Day and bigwig up front starts swinging around bowl of incense and many people in congregation start coughing out loud. At Buddhist talks sometimes bigwig will lean over and snuff out the incense stick and smile at audience. Much kinder. Bigwig talk about St. Pat stomping out the snakes - really they were demons - and I'm picturing snakes as smokes and also smoke thoughts and imagining stomping on them with my Doc Martins. Rewiring ~~~ Nonsmoking world and me getting in sync. ;)

Let the number speak... 360, 694 cigarettes avoided... Happy St. Pat's Day! Thanks to all who stood up to be counted! :)

Colleen (Ginger? I'm confused) it's sooooooooo inspiring for me because now you are such an exercise warrior..and that kind of transformation just awes me. That's why I check your exercise log! It's gives me a thrill!

Then and now. Long time smoking wears you down. (Okay, so does short time smoking.) But there comes a time when relapse isn't an option because it's too painful. I know that some continue to smoke through the pain but I don't know how they do it. Before, during, and now into this quit I'm having issues with breathing, which is influencing my desire to exercise. I'm kind of glad that this quit has been hard, because all I can think of is increasing my lung capacity...and smoking would do the opposite. It still hard but now my lungs reign. How it was in the past for me is moot. I wish I had quit the final quit when I was younger, but what's done is done.

I just read a thread by someone who relapsed. What stuck out was the relapser said, "My poor lungs..." This was a really good comment because it was so graphic. Maybe instead of relapse, it should be called self-harming-by-setting-lungs-on-fire. What's so romantic about that romancing? Ugh. Also, relapser said she DIDN'T HAVE A PLAN IN PLACE...when coming up against a crisis. I don't have a plan except to right away stomp on any thoughts of smoking as the answer to anything. Am also GRATEFUL my lungs still hurt a little because I can't deny that they are in healing mode, so in a crisis, do something else, anything else BUT LEAVE THE POOR LUNGS ALONE.

WAY TO GO, MASSACHUSETTS!!! "On Kick Butts Day, kids stand up and reject Big Tobacco's manipulative marketing. We can make the next generation tobacco free..." said Matthew Meyers, President of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. MARCH 18, 2015 2oth Annual Kick Butts Day with Massachusetts hugging its kids. 10 Stars!!!!!!!!!! :party2: :tease: :girl_hide: :search: :give_heart: :pioneer: :whistle3: :party:

Congrats on 9 days running! :)

Wow! Gotcha, and wife, too!

Thanks! Gotcha!

Thanks for bringing this up. With change of weather also had a flood of associations... not exactly craves but thoughts of smoking memories. I replaced sucky thoughts with cool thoughts about all the new memories I can make now that I am starting to BREATHE I think about my old bike, how I want to pimp it up, and how I will outfit my new bike. My mind likes such thoughts. I'm earning to not fear any thoughts regarding smoking. Taking control...

Oh yeah, star. Now don't ruin it or I"ll take your star back.

This is a bit confusing for me, as the past is a mix of smoking then years of not smoking, then smoking. I can remember periods of very heavy smoking like the year after my mother died, and I was quite young, and smoking made it impossible to run and that was scary. But as far as individual cigarettes...no, don't remember them So if the final quit is about the faces of of any and all cigarettes fading away... I'm in 100%.

Way to go!!!!!!!!!!! Excellent read. The part about deep breathing...really hard hitting, and so true. Chains....yeah...chains.