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G’day NOPE .....Not One Puff Ever.... replace Ever with Min Hour Day as required!

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NOPE Happy Friday everybody

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As I come up on my 3rd anniversary of quitting....I feel awesome! @Doreensfreeis right about the "massive sense of pride". I dodged a couple of bullets over the last 3 years and am very thankful about that!! Here's to continued success for us all here at QTrain...

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NOPE - I don't smoke anymore.

Appointment went good, he's probably in his 70's but he seems pretty thorough. Even did an EKG which he said looked good. I go for labs and another appointment in two weeks. Had a couple breathing issues but not sure if it was anxiety about if the portable tank was working correctly. Luckily hubby went with me but I think I'll definitely take an anxiety pill first the next time!

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Getting ready to venture out to my first Dr appointment with my new dr. First time out since getting home from the hospital, I'm a little nervous.....

This post piqued my curiosity. Checked out the website for the company that produces the little poison sticks. They call themselves, get this...Smart Toothpicks. Here is a line from the "about us" section of their site: Customers report that our products not only improve lives, but allow new freedoms as well. Our products are specifically developed to perform as a catalyst to promote a healthier way of life...in a flavorful way! Careful boys, you're redlining...

Underrated great heros (today, Christina Koch returned to earth after spending 328 days aboard the International Space Station, setting the record for longest spaceflight for a woman. Her contributions and achievements deserve Hero status level recognition).

I feel like the character Jack in the movie “Room”. He was a 5 year old boy born into captivity and imprisoned his entire life in a 10 x 10 foot space known as Room. When he finally escaped captivity at the age of 5 there was a sudden explosion of senses he had never experienced before. He must have realized: THIS is what the world is supposed to be like. I felt that same feeling when I quit smoking.

Great post !!!! 6 years later ,I still feel a massive sense of pride ....I would never smoke again ....Ever !!!!

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Sending Hugs Jillar ...hope your appointment goes well..!!!!...

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Wow I hate to see so many people getting sick on here. I know it's that time of year - but it really does suck. My own BF sounds like he's about to keel over so I've basically been living in my office/spare room for almost a week. Leaving nothing to chance and taking stock in Lysol lol. But I hope everyone gets well soon. So during my time of not being able to do my old hobbies - soaping etc. I've somehow gotten into fish and aquaponics. It started out so innocently with me just wanting a betta for my desk however my BF said just get a 10 gallon tank - so I did. But I couldn't stop thinking about that betta, so went out and got a 1.5 gallon cube for my desk so I could watch him swim while I worked. Well 1 quickly turned into I need another one - so now I have 3 tanks . At first I just had the plastic plants and decorations then took all that out and added live plants for an aqua scape got some driftwood. I'm hooked - It's like smoking I want just one more then I'll stop! Lucky I don't have the space for it because I'd go broke real quick. Went to get dog food the other day and ended up checking out their 55 gallon tanks lol - I had to pull myself away. But I really enjoy it, it's like therapy almost. My hair - the past 2 weeks it just sort of took off and the sides and back growing in faster than the top but not enough that you still cant see my scalp so maybe in another month or so I'll have scalp coverage. I was hoping by summer I'd have enough to do something like a pixie but only time will tell. I will say it's much easier to wash lol. My next visits are in March for an EKG and then in May for another lung scan. I have finally come to terms with the fact that I will have to have these scans and tests for the rest of my life - and that's fine. As long as it's a good quality life vs quantity. Because I hated feeling as if there was so much to do and so little time to do it. So I'm learning to make time for the things I enjoy. In other words it's time to start living and not dwelling. It's not easy as I have my breakdown days but that's ok - I look at it as a whole body release and just give into it and then I feel better. Oh and here's my doodlebug getting ready for Valentines day - begging for hugs and treats lol.

Butt Emissions: Study Finds Even Extinguished Cigarettes Give Off Toxins January 29, 2020 This specially built smoking machine was used by NIST scientists to measure the emissions that come off cigarette butts long after they've been extinguished. Cigarette butts pile up in parks, beaches, streets and bus stops, places where all types of littering are frowned upon. An estimated more than five trillion butts are generated by smokers worldwide each year, and concern about their environmental impact has prompted studies of how they affect water and wildlife habitats. But despite their prevalence, almost no one has studied the airborne emissions coming off these tiny bits of trash. When Dustin Poppendieck was asked to evaluate them, he was skeptical. As a measurement scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) he realized there was no standard way of analyzing the amounts of chemicals swirling in the air around cigarettes hours and days after they’d been put out, and he was intrigued. But he also thought there might not be enough chemicals present to make the measurements meaningful. What his team found, however, was that a used butt — one that is cold to the touch — can in one day give off the equivalent of up to 14% of the nicotine that an actively burning cigarette emits. “I was absolutely surprised,” said Poppendieck. “The numbers are significant and could have important impacts when butts are disposed of indoors or in cars.” The NIST measurements were performed under an interagency agreement with the Food and Drug Administration as part of its analysis of the overall impact of cigarette smoking on people’s lives. For a long time, most of the health impacts of smoking were misunderstood and often underestimated, in part because the emissions of cigarettes had not been fully assessed. Measurements and epidemiological studies over the last 50 years have improved our understanding of the health impacts of tobacco. We now know a good deal about how cigarette smoking affects smokers’ own bodies as they inhale and exhale, referred to as mainstream smoking. Work has also been done to establish the health effects of secondhand smoke, which is the emissions from the end of a cigarette, pipe or cigar, and the smoke that is exhaled by smokers. NIST scientists have measured the airborne emissions we are exposed to once a cigarette butt has been “extinguished." More recently, research has also examined thirdhand exposure, which comes from the chemical residue that stays on surfaces such as walls, furniture, hair, clothing and toys after a cigarette has been extinguished. Like mainstream smoking and secondhand smoke, thirdhand exposure can increase the risk of cancers and cause numerous other health problems, especially in the still-developing bodies and brains of infants and children. The overall goal of the recent NIST study was to quantify the emissions from extinguished cigarettes and discover what happens to those emissions when the butts are left in different environments. Poppendieck’s team measured eight of the hundreds of chemicals typically emitted from cigarettes, including four that are on the FDA list of harmful and potentially harmful constituents. They also measured triacetin, a plasticizer often used to make filters stiff. Filters were added to cigarettes in the 1950s. While they do collect part of what comes off a burning cigarette, they don’t fully negate the exposure from inhaling tobacco smoke. Filters provide a kind of handle for cigarette users who want to avoid burning their lips or fingers, wasting tobacco, or having to pull stray tobacco bits off their tongues. Triacetin can make up as much as 10% of a filter, and its low volatility means it doesn’t evaporate quickly at normal temperatures, so it could be a good indicator of long-term emissions from a butt, Poppendieck explained. The question that Poppendieck and his team considered, therefore, was not the impact of filters on smokers themselves. Rather, they focused on emissions from discarded butts, which are largely just used filters. “If you have ever sat on a park bench when somebody next to you smoked, then they got up and left their cigarette butt behind, that odor you were smelling is indicative of what we are trying to capture and measure,” Poppendieck said. “Anyone with a good sense of smell knows it’s there.” The team had to “smoke” over 2,100 cigarettes, although the scientists didn’t actually light up and inhale. Instead Poppendieck’s team built a “smoking machine” that uses robotic movements to simulate what humans do when they light up. The machine was made to move air through each cigarette in the same way, to remove some potential variables associated with the behavior of actual smokers. Extinguished cigarettes were placed in a walk-in, stainless steel chamber in order to characterize airborne emissions. The team also tried to determine if environmental differences in temperature, humidity and saturation in water would change those emission rates. Cigarettes were carefully lit and "smoked" in a machine before being recorded in the lab at NIST. Most of the chemicals from the extinguished butts were emitted in the first 24 hours, Poppendieck noted. However, nicotine and triacetin concentrations were still about 50% of the initial level five days later. The team also found that butts emitted these chemicals at higher rates when the air temperature was higher. “The nicotine coming from a butt over seven days could be comparable to the nicotine emitted from mainstream and sidestream [secondhand or thirdhand] smoke during active smoking,” Poppendieck said. This means if you don’t empty an ashtray in your home for a week, the amount of nicotine exposure to nonsmokers could be double current estimates. Figuring out what to call these newly discovered and measured emissions has been challenging. In the lab, Poppendieck and his team refer to them loosely as “after smoke” or just butt emissions. No matter what terminology is used, the research team wants people to know that the chemicals remain long after the cigarette goes out. People have been asked to not throw their cigarettes out car windows, because it takes years for the butts to degrade. Poppendieck wants people to also know they can put used butts in sealable metal or glass jars with sand instead of leaving them out in the open. “You might think that by never smoking in your car when kids are present, you are protecting the nonsmokers or children around you,” Poppendieck said. “But if the ashtray in your hot car is full of butts that are emitting these chemicals, exposure is happening.” Papers: M. Gong, N. Daniels, D. Poppendieck. Measurement of chemical emission rates from cigarette butts into air. Indoor Air. Available online in preprint format on Jan. 18, 2020. DOI: 10.1111/ina.12648 D. Poppendieck, M. Gong, V. Pham. Influence of temperature, relative humidity, and water saturation on airborne emissions from cigarette butts. Science of the Total Environment. Available online Jan. 5, 2020. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.1364

@jillar I am glad it went well and can understand you being nervous. It will get better. Maybe you should get a couple of opinions. You do want the best care.

G’day Hang in there..... it will all go well I’m sure!

Hope all goes well with your appointment @jillar

Oh @jillar. I hope you are well enough to be your own advocate or your beloved is going with you. Try not to worry and just concentrate on wellness. Thinking of you, sweets.

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Being honest with yourself ...... There is NO excuse ....there is NO slip..ect... It's you deciding ...to smoke ...you have let the addiction win... You have to be honest ....

Understand your addiction and proactively protect your quit by recognizing and eliminating thoughts/words/deeds that lead to failure. Standing by a commitment to Not One Puff Ever (NOPE) will ensure success.

He is a Rottie in every way! He's a licker and a leaner and stick by your side and under your feet food cleaner lol. He pretty much loves everyone once he gets to know them - but he's very territorial and HATES the mailman lol. Ahhh the fish and plants (it really is zen) Does he sell them online or just local? I've actually been doing a lot of research on what plants go best with what fish/light/temp/tank size etc. so much info but I know that 55 gallon (maybe bigger) will be mine mwa-ha-ha! I have heard that. My neighbors actually came back thicker and curley. I was reading an article on the actress Selma Blair and how she chose radiation to help with her MS. She did lose her hair and said that it would either come back a different color or texture and she would just keep shaving it until it came back the color she wanted lol. I'll just be happy it's back - I'm really excited to see what cool pixie would look like. I've always had long hair so I may decide I like it short. Maybe something like this as far as the tops and sides - love that color. Pic is not me of course tho I wish it were lol.

hellkatbaby, he is adorable. Is he a Rottweiler? Fish tanks are a great hobby. There is one at my doctors' office and I find it to be so relaxing. My son is also into them and actually grows the plants to sell. Be prepared, that hair may come in curly. My friend had that happen after treatments. I am so glad to hear you are doing so well. It is amazing the new medical treatments they have. You are doing so great. Stay strong and keep healing.

Good news, @jillar. Glad the appointment went OK and your beloved was there with you. I bet it wore you out.

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hellkatbaby, Rotties can be such big lovable babies. I bet he is the best medicine for you. My son has a friend that owns a pet store and he grows them to him. He does not sell them online. I love the haircut. I wear mine short and similar. It cracks me up that gray is in now. I have been coloring mine for a while. Once I went short, I never went back. It is easy to take care of though. I bet you would look beautiful with any style!

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G’day Was too build a barn on a mates place this weekend. Not happening ....he lives at the top of the Mary river. Couple of local roads flooded already so with a docs appointment for the wife this arvo have to leave early and go the long way. But that’s just inconvenient really. Dams are under 50 per cent. This will fill them for sure.

No. Even when I would smoke anything, I would never have smoked a salmon. I suppose you'd have to dry it, crumble it up and some how put it in a cigarette paper. Ugh, no, it would be horrible. No nicotine though. No one worries.

Ever smoked salmon?