#201 PeppermintFizz
So inspirational!!
CASSIE
#202 bakon24 September 2013 - 09:11 AM
Counter said
"1 year 1 hour since last cigarette.
$2007.72 saved 7301 smokes avoided"
1 year done. 1 hour working on next one year. Like an accomplishment and a continuation of the work involved. Going for a Subway sandwich in an hour. That's how the ride started. Been downhill for a while but even still the group pushed me there. Advise to anyone- stay close enough to board that someone in here remembers your name. Good feeling to post after a week or three and see a familiar face. Also NOPE. Cant say it enough. Recommend everyone repeat it whenever you THINK its ok to maybe touch something which gives a puff. Don't play with fire.
First weeks of crawling turn into a walk, then a march. Keep marching. Put your head down and plow forward at times, but soon it turns down hill and the ride gets to be easy. It was quick to become easy for me. Just a month or two and I think it was downhill. But I am on my guard too. I got lucky and it quickly was a foul smell to me. But also not completely done, some thought about smoking here or there, out of the blue, which isn't completely gone and still work to stay away from.
So fight on, your stronger with every crave conquered, the roller coaster is worth it. Thank you to all my friends here I made it.
Keep Marching
#203 Nancy.
We will keep marching!
#204 ChristaC
Thanks, Bakon! Loved to read the thread....inspiring me to keep on climbing, because I want to be where YOU are!
#205 Sgt.Sausage
bakon, on 24 Sept 2013 - 09:11 AM, said:
Counter said
"1 year 1 hour since last cigarette.
$2007.72 saved 7301 smokes avoided"
1 year done.
Well done, Mr. Bakon.
The Sarge salutes you.
Well done.
Easy Peasy
#206 sparklingabyss
Congrats on a whole year!
#207 jimmy009
+1 ill keep marching
#208 bakon
Posted 07 October 2013 - 03:47 PM
1year 2 weeks or so. Sticking around a little to see the last Amigo hit his year. Plus like teasing Scott and Jimmy and some of the girls. Baffled posted about the habit and changing seasons, adjusting to not smoking even after awhile and having a trigger pop out of the blue. Not that I want to smoke but I looked at a half a smoke laying near a door the other day and thought "I used to put them out and sit them on a wall to light when I came back out."
Anyways- I walked out of work late the other night. Like 20 minutes late and in hurry to get home. Always had time for 1 smoke on ride home and usually not finsihed when I pulled in driveway. Let dogs out and finish last couple puffs. So I know I'm in hurry and instead of firing up in truck I guess my routine was to fire up on way to truck so I could ge the whole thing done.
So a year after quiting I am walking through the lot at work going toward truck, patting my pockets, looking for a lighter I no longer carry, to fire up a smoke I dont have, so I can finish it before I hit the house and go inside.Got to truck and I am patting again, double checking to find it. Need to find it before I unlock the door, need to get it lit before I get in truck and I am carrying other items. So I am switching them around in my hands and patting with the other hand, then realized I still havent found it and had to laugh. I didnt want a smoke, but that habit was still in my pea sized brain somewhere.
Also dreamed about running last night- needed to run because I got a physical training test coming up and I smoke, so got to practice running before test.....Been out of Army 25 years now. Dont know where that thought was hiding.
Changing title to pea brain. Had village idiot but that got used against me by an angry woman in here.
#209 kinkash
You rock Bakon! JT Philly posted something similar a few weeks back. It's all good!
#210 baffled
Needed to repost Bakon at his point in my quit. His quit seems so similar to mine that I like to know what he was thinking and posting at the same stages. Thought it might help others as well. Thank you thank you Bakon.
#211 billquit
Bakon..you're a full fledged inspiration! I sure appreciate you and I'm real proud of you!
#212 kinkash
billquit, on 12 Oct 2013 - 09:21 AM, said:
+10000
#213 bakon
13 months and quit is very enjoyable. As time goes by, the bad memories of old relationships fade and only the good remain. My quit is like that. I have to think of something to find the bad in the quit. Sure I had moments of crawling skin and flying off the handle. But the end results are so good, so worth it, and so far from the cage of just a year ago, I cant think that it was too hard. I hope everyone reaches this point. Lot of posters recently saying it's getting easier. I tell them that's the downhill side of the march. I also think that as smokers, the first couple hurdles in quiting seem so steep that we postpone quiting. Then we start and they knock us down, hard. Moods, hunger, chemicals making us fart, break out and not sleep. We got to face the hardest part first, no easing in to it. So the failure rate in first week is highest, second week that goes down, continuing to ease with each day/week/month. But not a steady down, more a square function. , like gravity accelleration, 9.82 m/s2. Time is squared for how far it eases up. Sometimes there's a post with someone still struggling a month in and not easing up, usually some NRT going on nobody knew was happening and the nicotine hasnt left the building yet. I dont care how long you havent puffed, its not going to ease up till you quit the nic. Also love the saying a puff away from a pack a day- that and NOPE are my favorites. As for me, most of my quit buddies are at the year now. I would recommend staying close that first year. Some recent people come back who would have months to a year now, only to start again. Group is good about that, but I feel like it was a waste to let it go. The best posts to me are when they come back and dont gloss over the relapse. They say how disappointing it was. How the smoke didnt help. Some sit here fantisizing for nothing. Relapsers are the proof. Just ask a smoker if he would trade places with you, you give them the hard work and your one week quit and they give you the pack...they will take it. They cant get over that first hurdle. Someone started a Million Dollar to Smoke thread recently. I cant say I wouldnt for that, but I wouldnt for the sake of just "having one." Too big of a risk for no reward. The relapsers all say that first one was so disappointing. See someone come back, ask them to post their thoughts when they got that first one in. Failure and disappointment. Someone had a line like "When we smoked we wished we were here. Now here we sometimes want to be there" Remember we dont want to smoke. That life is gone. SO for me- Easy Cheesy. Keep Marching
#214 bakon
1y 1m 17 d-
Dont bump it up much because I dont have much to add. I dont struggle but an occasional thought does pop up. Not an urge, just a thought. Saw a lighter on the dash of a car the other day. Pushed it in to see if it worked. Came out glowing like new. Thought "This is a good one, heated up fast." Then put it back. Remember burning them out in my truck. Worn out from too much use.
Could smell smoke a mile away now. Still dont like it.
Gym is easy now than a year ago. So much more lung capacity. Walk twice as far, twice as fast, sweat but dont loose my breath.
Smell things I haven't since being a kid. Lemons, real ones, not cut but on display. Could never smell that as a smoker. Sure I could smell lemon cleaners, or a fresh cut one. But not one with the peel on sitting a distance away.
Teeth- whiter and no problems. Smile is improved. Skin too. I can see the gray in a smoker.
Still marching. Head up and moving forward.
#215 Cristobal
I am so happy that you are doing well.
I understand many things in your last 2 posts, because I am at the same time in my quit as you.
Where are Gainsey and Youngster ???
Are the 3 Musketeers only 1.5 now (You are 1, I am one half.).
#216 bakon
Youngster is missing but Gainesy checked in at a year and doing well. Three amigos is now you me and Gainesy. M and Freliz are right there with us too. Your way more than a half.
#217 bakon
14 months- all is well.
Cristobal's name is still hard to spell for me but is still here posting away too. I always start typing CHRist....then got to go look at it again. I think English is my second language on the keyboard.
Saw BABS, Sgt, Kinkash, and a few others post in the last week from last fall. M and Breath, Greenlover, Mojo.
Got some crazy new ones too- looks like board is moving on just with enough flavors of personality to keep interesting.
The owl is 6 months in. NK, Christa, Bill, baffled Jimmy, Jenny all in the middle grounds, months around 6 but less than 12. Never much into the fart titles. I think of brand new, less than month, 2-4,5-8, those 9-12 are old timers, then the big year and more group. I get titles, just don't use them in my head.
Some pretty faces on some too on the avatars!!
Scott from PA hasn't been hassled in a while about his pic, so I'll throw him in with pretty people. If I missed your name it only because my pea brain cant hold that much.
(Saw the angry swimmer too, she cant see me though, only person I know blocked me. Funny is when she posts about NRT and her struggles at the beginning. Kind of verifies what I was trying to tell her on why her anger wasn't fading, just laugh to myself. It would be worth a warning point to say "I told you so" with my hand up showing her the international symbol for friendship. )
Notice I only wrote about the group. No smoking thoughts, only thoughts of some friends on the quit smoking group and check in to see how they are. Bike season is over, go around block now and then, but got smarter as I got older and don't go out much this time of year. Big plans next year already forming up. Going to hit the south. Big circle ,with PA and Ohio, about 15 states, including some places from the recent picture thread places. We are going to stop in Redstone Arsenal-Huntsville Alabama. Old Army post I was at for about 2 years. Hope to see some marching going on so I can get a photo. I could seach google for one I suppose.
I did hit the chat button twice in last month. Both times I didn't know what I was doing. But one time I was only one in room. When I looked back Soul was in there. She was the fouth person to ever post to my thread and one of the original people I remember. So I start to write that and she Kieser Sozied "Poof " Soul left the room." Couldn't tell her what help she was that first week. I didnt know I had to be fast. Sat there looking at the screen with all I typed and nobody to read it left. Just me in an empty room that doesn't really exist as a physical space. The other time someone yelled "BAKON" and they scared me out of the room. (Was at work really but those chat rooms are a little scary)
Otherwise just a lurker mostly.
Keep Marching.
#218 Guest_susana_*
I hope that is not a farewell post.... ...
You have been a great support to me on these last few months. During and after my relapse. I don´t want you to go without knowing how much I appreciate your input and your non-judgmental tone.
14 Months tomorrow.... SUPER-MEGA-GREAT!!!
#219 SallytheOwl
I never get tired of hearing how people have no more thoughts of smoking anymore. Keep those inspirations coming, Bakon. Congrats on your solid and comfy quit. Love it.
#220 Nancy.
Bakon, you are the best!
