bakon

better than the cat

ava or jen? any confessions?

some chick is being funny..... short list. starts with jen and goes to ava... got bat too.. stay out until blood is cleaned up

correct suspect

pull head out of butt and see if fresh air helps.... maybe lightheaded is just the fog clearing of all those chemicals. I would think a true medical condition would make you lose balance and more... more info needed

who steals the likes?

Game still -9 and on pause...OFFICIALLY.

jenny...main suspect ginger second only because she blames the one I didn't guess(Jenny) ava- third suspect- don't think she would pick the two singers if she likes them. dd is the good egg in this but a cheater and might know more....

THE BEST OF THIS POST IS SCAMPS NEAR END. He only ever made 2 posts and this was his first. #141 kickitorfcckit Posted 25 February 2013 - 06:06 AM Yeah, bakon! You're an inspiration!! Congratulations Thanks for posting here to help others, too #142 christinabell Posted 25 February 2013 - 06:15 AM Well done bakon. Five months is a huge achievement. You should be extremely proud of yourself #143 bakon Posted 18 March 2013 - 09:51 AM March 18th and just hit 3500 smokes missed, dont know exact number of days but counter has 1 week shy of 6 months. Thought I would update the number of smokes. 3500 at five minutes a pop- 17,500 minutes or 291.66666 hours or 12.152777 days. Over 12 days of constant smoking every second. This is just 1 pack a day of king size. Laid out end to end 3500 x 3.25 inches = 11375 inches 947.916 feet 315.972 yards over three football fields (not soccer Gainesy) almost 2/10th a mile For you metric folks 3500 x 84 mm=294000mm 294 meters almost 3/10 kilometer #144 KickinSticksposted 18 March 2013 - 08:00 PM Bakon, as someone just starting out, it was great and useful to read through your progress over the past half year. Congrats on keeping the quit! #145 islandgirl Posted 19 March 2013 - 07:03 AM Congratulations Bacon on your great quit. Very inspiring journey #146 bakon Posted 19 March 2013 - 08:17 AM Thank you both. Live in Steeler country but would prefer being on an island #147 KickinSticks Posted 19 March 2013 - 08:07 PM Yeah, grew up in Steeler Country but never moved back after college. Now that there's the direct ticket, we're free to move about the country. #148 bakon Posted 24 March 2013 - 07:45 PM 6 months still marching #149 youngster513 Posted 24 March 2013 - 08:28 PM Gyeah, 6 months bud! Marching on! #150 ShaunPosted 24 March 2013 - 09:25 PM Your doing great!!! Unlike #151 babs609 Posted 24 March 2013 - 09:25 PM excellent soldier!! doing fabulous! #152 bakonPosted 25 April 2013 - 10:23 AM 7 months and doing fine. The temptations are all around but never think twice about it. Saw a half a burned one in a friends ashtray ther other day. Looked at it like "I remember you. I remember how many times you tasted good for the first puff only to let me down with the second. Crappy taste left on my tongue." Smiled and walked away. Friend tried quiting soon after I did. Said the gum dehydrated him and still left him smoking at night. Cant put all the knowledge of this board out there in one conversation. Sounds preachy. How do you tell someone cold turkey is the best asnd easiest route when it sounds the hardest? and is the hardest at first. I didnt even try to explain he didnt really quit and made it worse with what he tried. Just thought to myself "He just isnt ready yet." I could see when I told him I hit 7 months he wished he was me. There is a good signature on one of the people with more time than me...something like ...So many times we feel we wish we were still smoking, and when we were smoking we wished we were here. #153 jimmy009 Posted 25 April 2013 - 03:07 PM keep on marching forword 7 months is super way to go #154 bakonPosted 22 May 2013 - 11:12 AM Almost 8 months and last week was harder than normal. Was a vacation on the motorcycle and smoked a lot more than usual for bike week events in the past. Riding at day and drinking at night plus crowd is more smokers than a regular crowd. Just associated the whole event including the place we stay with the habit. Now I didn't pick any up. Bum any. Buy or borrow. But I did think about it more often and so had to stay on guard. Back home now and have no thoughts of it. In fact the smell has changed to me again. Not a pleasant smell but not like s*** either. Like the smell when I was a kid and an adult fired up. Didn't like it. Harsh. But not that stale klingy crap ashtray odor. #155 slocumPosted 22 May 2013 - 11:35 AM Congrats on 8 months. Just remember, any junkie thinking is a lie. Smoking never did do anything for you and never will. #156 EmmaBunny Posted 22 May 2013 - 12:43 PM I bet it was really difficult in that environment, but you held tight and made it through successfully! Congratulations for that. And thank you for reminding all of us that we need to stay alert. #157 bakon Posted 28 May 2013 - 01:35 AM Wife and I have been pretty good with the gym for a few years but I never spent much time with the cardio stuff. Knew I should not smoke was more important than riding a stationary bike for my health. And why get out of breath walking in place on treadmill. Again I was a smoker and three flights of steps could make me piss and moan. Avoid the cardio much as I could, maybe 5-10 minutes and move on. So hit some weights, fake a few sit ups and feel like I was doing my part. Well 8 months quit and I am ready to work on the heart and lungs now. Do some walking a few days a week with the dogs, maybe a 1-1.5 miles in a 15-20 minute route, depending on weather. Lungs and such feeling fine, dont piss and moan walking anymore. Steps or hills are fine. Working at gym still so muscles are stronger than most my age and not overweight, so summer is here and we are doing some bike riding. #158 anna173 Posted 28 May 2013 - 01:47 AM congrats!! Hang in there!! you can do this!! Unlike #159 scampNEWLY_REGISTERED 2 posts Posted 20 June 2013 - 04:55 AM Hi Bakon, I'm more a reader than a poster - Just thought I would post and let you know, that you have helped massively, a 40 year old married guy (20+ year smoker) sitting in Sydney Australia on the other side of the world, I started the journey 95 days ago, and especially at that time, i was googling and reading every article and forum under the sun, anything to to distract myself It sure was tough back then. For some reason your posts really struck a chord with me, and i kept returning and reading your thread over and over again over the weeks and months. That NOPE approach sure does work, i credit that simple concept with getting me to 95 days, as well as your "starting out" thread. I know i'm not out of the woods yet, but i'm thinking about it less and less, and it is so much easier to brush off than just a month or two ago. Anyway trust you are staying strong, and thank you from some one you'll never meet, but whom's taken such inspiration from your words and progress, - i bet you never thought as you wrote these, that later you'd be helping someone in Australia in getting the strength to beat the evil sticks !! best scamp #160 bakon Posted 20 June 2013 - 03:31 PM Scamp, thanks buddy. I am closing in on 9 months. I have been watching the "old timers" of the group, people with three months or more when I joined, now get their year mark. I think the group helped me alot and along with a counter I could watch the progress. I would recommend posting some here to help the others, but also get yourself a counter on your signature line. That little thing kept adding days and weeks. I never wanted to reset it and explain to the group that after a few beers I had no control over myself and ended up ruining the quit. Where am I now- well in the background here. Lots of folks saying exactly what I would and dont want to be a smart ass on some posts so best to move on and leave it alone. Other times I feel I got to be Mr Obvious and say the simple thing Pap would say to me when I was young. Thank you for the complements. Those really were my first posts and the progress went pretty fast. I go back and read it myself at times, but you made my day writing what you did. I will have a beer later for you. I have lost quits longer than this before, but never had a place to come and talk about it either. We have some things in common. Over 20 years smoking, I am just a few years older and although we both speak english, I find the movies with you guys talking hillarious. Those guys from England (One of my quit buddies Gainesy) are funny, but I have to listen to what they sat twice sometimes because it is so fast and pronounced so different. Welcome to the group and hope to read some more of your posts.

only one computer I access lets me ....got more....just going to take time to get it here...

watching- ginger and ava for clues reading- the same two for clues

me and you are bumper cars....the more I try to get to you the more we crash apart...

devilwoman would be suspect equal to ginger,,,,so I got to stick with ginger first....ava second

little do you know....you are both breaking my heart... I love you till the sun dies

not sure now----ava not care about sticks game....but framing ginger??? but why would she choose two performers she likes??? or is ginger shifting blame??? ava didn't visit my page today but ginger did? why??? I am sticking with ginger as main suspect but ava is not off the hook yet.....

AVA is suspect now too......

you can have ginger too- she is posting added pictures to my stuff or maybe jen???

they aren't mad at the winning streak.....

I remember that skirt....on the floor

me and you on stage?

I am columbo...the latest visiter to my profile is an easy way....

very funny ginger

Ginger remove the box shitter from my signature

-9 post again and its a cheat win for the stciks

colleen added a cat to my posts....more proof she is an egg...like the girl in school who keeps poking the boy she likes....I hope nancy or jen see it