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Llkoolaid
Member
08-01-2001
| Sunday, April 08, 2007 - 3:52 am
Happy Easter. Hope everyone is still smoke free, I am almost 4 months, I can't believe it. The smell of cigarettes now makes me sick to my stomach, I actually think I have it bet this time.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, April 08, 2007 - 7:54 am
Yay LL!!! But don't ever relax your guard.
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Retired
Member
07-11-2001
| Sunday, April 08, 2007 - 9:34 am
Congrats to all the quitters! How much do you have in the box now LL?
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Llkoolaid
Member
08-01-2001
| Sunday, April 15, 2007 - 12:48 pm
When it hit 1000, I bought some new sping clothes. I have started over. How are all my non smoking pals doing, 4 months plus for me.
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Retired
Member
07-11-2001
| Sunday, April 15, 2007 - 1:08 pm
Yay LL! Isn't it amazing how fast the money adds up? Congrats to all the other new non-smokers!!
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Sunday, April 15, 2007 - 2:34 pm
Congrats, LL!! Very good!! Still doing good here. Easter Sunday was a little bit tough. Nobody smoked in the house but when the smokers would come in I could smell the smoke on them and for a second I'd want one but then it'd pass. I have also had ONE dream that I was smoking but for the most part its been okay. Geez, how long does it take before you never want one even for a second?
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Babyruth
Member
07-19-2001
| Sunday, April 15, 2007 - 5:51 pm
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Babyruth
Member
07-19-2001
| Sunday, April 15, 2007 - 6:00 pm
Ok, I was going to post a pic that had a spoiler screen but it didn't work. It was a yucky pic of a healthy lung and a smoker's lung. So, instead, dear Twinkie: it may take forever for you to never ever ever have an urge. May I suggest this: whenever you DO have an urge, twist it into a positive. Think of that sensation as me or another TVCHer or family member (Sierra?) hugging you, because we love you. 
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Babyruth
Member
07-19-2001
| Sunday, April 15, 2007 - 6:02 pm
CONGRATS TO ALL THE QUITTERS!!!!!!
    WOO HOOOO! Keep up the good work!!!
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Sunday, April 15, 2007 - 8:58 pm
Baby, honey, I hate to sound really corny but I have to say it: you are such a joy in my life and I love you, too! And so many TVCH friends! 
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, April 15, 2007 - 9:12 pm
Good going on making it through Easter, Twinks! Yay LL on a thousand bucks!!! At one time that wouldn't have been so much U.S., but nowadays, well, it is almost a thousand bucks.
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Ginger1218
Member
08-31-2001
| Monday, April 16, 2007 - 3:58 am
"Geez, how long does it take before you never want one even for a second?" Uh, I hate to tell you this, but in my case, never. It is 11 years and I still get urges. I just know that I am an addict and can never touch it, because one drag and I will be smoking 3 packs a day. Just take a deep breath and it will go away.}
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Slothkitten
Member
09-16-2003
| Monday, April 16, 2007 - 6:58 am
Impressive, LL !! Thanks so much, Babyruth, Retired and Juju for being there. 2 months this Thursday ( for Twinkie, too ) . . . thank's for sharing that Ginger . . . sorry to hear that the urges still are with you ( me, too . . . bad sometimes ) . . but 11 years you have lived and coped with the stinkers . . . there's hope,lol ! ( popping another jolly rancher . . . . )
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Monday, April 16, 2007 - 7:34 am
Congratulations on two months, Slothkitten (and Twinkie)!!! It's been about nine years since I had my last cigarette, and I don't get urges anymore. It doesn't even occur to me, ever. Because I don't smoke. So why should I want a cigarette?
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Monday, April 16, 2007 - 7:03 pm
Damn, Ginger! I was hoping it would be like quitting drinking. In 3 years I've drank twice. Once was in TX for Spy's wedding and I had a sip of hubby's drink about a year ago (I didn't even want more than that sip) and I'm just not interested in drinking anymore. Whereas I always have the urge to smoke but I keep hoping that will go away after a couple of years at least. I have a friend who quit smoking 4 years ago and when I smoked around her it didn't bother her at all so I know there's hope. Thanks so much for the constant cheerleading, BabyR, Juju, and Retired! I don't know if I could have made it this far without you!! Big hugs and kisses to you!!
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Nickovtyme
Member
07-29-2004
| Monday, April 16, 2007 - 7:26 pm
Since I've quit drinking I've never had an urge to drink. I can be in a room full of people drinking and be alright. I can walk into a liquor store and only buy a bag of chips...Sobering up was much easier for me than this. This coming from a guy that used to hit the bottle a few times before going to school every day when he was 15...and ran around with a group who were affectionately known as the Weekend Warriors. that being said...I'm going on 3 1/2 months. Keep up the good work Twinkie, Sloth and LL!
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Monday, April 16, 2007 - 9:13 pm
YAAA, Nick!!! Good job!!! Isn't that weird about drinking? Doesn't bother me a bit if folks are drinking around me. I have no desire at all. But light a cigarette around me and I might ask for a puff. LOL
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Lawrie
Member
08-03-2002
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 2:22 am
My parents quit when I was about seven and I was foolish enough to start at 14. After I had been smoking for a while, I realized that Mother still had urges after ten or more years and I had the feeling that it was hopeless to try to quit if I would always have to fight the urges. (It was never a problem for my dad). She later figured it took about 30 years to completely get over it. I realize now that it wasn’t a constant thing for her. For me, I had a turning point at about six months. That’s when I seemed to go from it being a constant battle to becoming occasional thoughts of “a smoke sure would taste good”. I smoked for 34 years and now haven’t smoked for 14 months. When I do think about smoking, I remind myself about the first week of quitting. I know I don’t want to do that again. lol Just wanted to chime in and say that it will keep getting easier for a while yet. Hang in there!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 7:07 pm
I can honestly say I never, ever have an urge anymore, and can't remember when I did. It has been over 8 years since I smoked a cigarette.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 10:11 pm
YAAAA there's hope for me yet!! LOL Actually, I only get an occasional urge....maybe twice a day, three at the most except for Easter Sunday when it was all day but I was around smokers all day and I could have just stepped outside to join them but I didn't. That was hard!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - 6:58 am
Good going, Twinks!! Yep, there is hope. I am very proud that you survived Easter with the smokers? I guess you didn't convert anyone? Oh well. When they were out smoking, if you were a full-fledged non-smoker, you would have felt sorry for them that they HAD to smoke, and you didn't. Because they DO have to, to stave off those withdrawal symptoms that come if a smoker doesn't smoke. You, on the other hand, a non-smoker, were not having the same withdrawal symptoms they were having.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - 8:09 pm
Juju, you are so right and I so never want to go through those withdrawals again! And no, I didn't convert anyone....yet. 
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Retired
Member
07-11-2001
| Friday, April 20, 2007 - 2:06 pm
Congrats Sloth & Twinks on 2 months smoke free! Way to go!!!!  
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Friday, April 20, 2007 - 3:28 pm
Thanks, Retired!!
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Nickovtyme
Member
07-29-2004
| Friday, April 20, 2007 - 4:45 pm
Yay Twinks and Sloth!
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