Sazerac

N O P E

Courtyard Sunflower for You, SUE  !  

For all us Hobos and Gawd Bless The Brits for recording this show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoyBKoKOy2w#

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Amy !!! Your Freedom is Here !

and The Tan Canary sings for you

(if I can figure out how to do the link thing)

darn, I am such a Luddite still.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEWM-hVPKuo&list=RDaEWM-hVPKuo#t=0

Drink from the well of NOPE, baby.

I am humbled

and downright GIDDY

over the Beautiful reception 

all of y'all,

My very own Heroes,

have bestowed here.

Thank you So much.  

I look forward to settling in like a home home home in a home

and toasting wildly each and every one of you.

What an amazing community.

S

The Bottomless Cup of N O P E.  Delish.

Yeah, you right, this IS the start of Greatness,  Giopetro.

Wow, Tracey.

Ever since my first Puff,  

I was in complete Denial about Everything,

as All Good Junkies are.

Second Hand Smoke ?  Get outta here !  Pfttt.

Now, Reality check.  Truth and more Truth.

I am horrified at my old self,  WTF,  who was that Junkie Broad ?

Grateful for another chance, Now.  Here.   Now.

The Quit is about Freedom from Nicotine, yes ?

Stay as far away from Nicotine as you can.

Protect your Quit from the very beginning with Everything you got.

Do what you need.  Do whatever it takes.

As Doreen says, 'All Road Lead To Rome (and Roam)'

Be very, very Good to your Own Sweet Self !

Me, I guzzle from the bottomless cup of N O P E.

Always so handy !

But, in Early Times, when I wasn't researching Primal Scream Therapy,  

I also used the famous S&M Device of Snapping Rubber-Bands around my Wrist,

training brain to associate crave with Bad instead of Nicotine's Faux Reward.

I tell you, I felt Crazy, and Oh So Ridiculous,  tending to the giant welts on my wrists from my snap snap snapping

but, magic was wrought (and lickity split too).

Later, a poultice of Witch Hazel to care for unsightly bruises.

Congratulations !

At six months, a sort of calm began to wash over me and

a realization that Time was on my side.

 Look what you have accomplished, Lace ! 

Two Years (and Two Days ?)

A beautiful achievement.

Just Beautiful, Leanna.

Six Months Feels Really Good, Aine, doesn't it !

Wow.  Really, really Good

and even better yet to come.

Some crazy times for y' all lately. Damn.

No more Jumper Cables, ya hear me ?

Suitable Fireworks will be provided.

Trumpets, also.

Toot to toot toot !  

Six Months !  

Hooray.

E V E R Y T H I N G.

Is.

Better.

E v e r y t h i n g.

never mind goofball-ness.

 Welcome Wendy !.

 It is all true.  It gets really, really Good in so many ways.

No Doubt.

Oh, Dear.  I meant to post the above to the new Blond with lots of numbers in her name.

Goofball here.

Would this make me Plus One ?

(no mathematical wizard here) 

Welcome.  You are in for some really Good times.

Guarantee.

Booby Prize!  Just for Jengel and a Happy Year Too !

Haven't had a Boob Tube since 1976 (?)

when I tossed a Husband's B/W portable out of a second floor window.

Smithereens on a meadow below.

Bliss.

Didn't do much for Marriage, though.

NOPE is Delish !

I have been secretly at the loom,

warp-ing and waft-ing

yards of El Bandito Plaid 

for your new kilt.

Ready Soon but,

now wishing you plenty sips 

of Whisky de Islay

for your Seven Months of Freedom.

Beautifully done !

Keep that Sporran swinging, won't you ?!

Love,

Sazerac

Hey Now,

I have been riding the rails of Quit Train

like a damn hobo since its inception. 

Now that my first year of nicotine freedom is approaching,

I bought a ticket to ride in luxury.  

Good thing too, I have a lot of good people to Thank.

Everyone !  I thank you so much for sharing your wisdom, experiences, foibles, and humor !

You have helped to make my quit, dare I say,  Easy ?

No, not all easy but, not near as hard as I once believed.

Never thought I would quit, never ever.

Then, on a whim, I dared myself. 

I said,

"Sugar, you think of yourself as a strong woman but, you're not even close.

Just look at you, you're a friggin' JUNKIE !"

I read and read everywhere and reading still.

I watched Joel Spitzer.  I watched Allen Carr.

I drank the NOPE cool-aid. (Delish)

I saw all of YOU succeed !

I ate too much, dammit.

Now, proud to be Strong and so Free.

I hope to give something back to y'all, for sure,

and perhaps, provide a shard of courage to those still enslaved by nicotine.

Thank you so very, very much Train Riders,

y'all are the Absolute Best.

Sazerac

quit October 23, 2013