Bassman

Machine messes up and squirts it in your face...edited...squirts me in the face... insert sandles

Want to go to Hawaii but in 2 weeks I'll be going to Louisiana for 10 days......Yea...just need to get away for a while..... where do you want to go?

Very good, and educational Markus....tks

Coming To Terms The First Full Year As A Nonsmoker Note: FANS = First year As Non Smoker If no one else has seen reference to FANS before, then I just made it up and will adopt it as a new nosmoking acronym. ----------------------- We've Heard about going through the first full year of nonsmoking and greeting triggers on certain events through out that first year. While we were smokers these events triggered our smoking. We associate the first year because it includes all four seasons, holidays, and events for the first time as a NOPE smoke quitter. The most common trigger of course is the addiction, "time for another smoke" simply to feed the addiction. It didn't matter when you satisfied that one because many times it was not uncommon to chain smoke right to another one with a simple deduction of "because I can", or I might as well smoke two now because I can't get away for another one for at least an hour. During the winter and because of the cold, we stayed inside most the time. Now spring is here where a lot of us enjoy the outdoors, fishing, boating, gardening, yard work, swimming, hiking and so on, time for smokes. Now we are outside in the wide open warmer air and when we were smokers, there was no reason to not smoke outdoors. The triggers are now there; starting the grill, time to smoke, starting the lawn mower, time to smoke, opening a beer, time to smoke, cast the line out into the lake, time for a smoke. There are millions and millions of self made and addiction triggers that are used every second of the day. Summer is now here - summer vacation, time to smoke, kids home all day, time to smoke, jump in the pool, time to smoke, get out of the pool, time to smoke, friends and family out back, time to smoke, dog pooped on your freshly cleaned patio, time to smoke. Fall is creeping in - go for long walks, time to smoke, go to the mountains, time to smoke, enjoy the pumpkin patches, time to smoke. Winter is now here with the holidays, time to smoke, and another year done, time to smoke. Some of the others celebrations not mentioned during the year like all the major and minor holidays and some you never heard of. My oh my, don't forget John and Mary's birthdays, cousins, brothers, sisters birthdays, mom and dad, aunt uncle, husband, wife, time to smoke.....you get the idea. Then there are the anniversaries to celebrate, all call for a smoke. Lets add all the accomplishments of John and Mary, cousins, brothers and sisters, mom and dad, aunt uncle, husband, wife, time to smoke....you get the idea. Then we have all the bad and tragedy things that happen that we thought gave us reasons to smoke. With all this going on, when was there time for sex???? ?.......But after sex, you know the drill, time for a smoke....... So we go year after year after year using all these reasons and celebrations and millions more just to give a reason to light up again. But being the good educated nonsmoker we are now, we know all those smokes were nothing more that the addiction tricking us and making us believe we needed it when in reality it was the addiction that needed it. So now that the previous year is up, time to start a new one as a nonsmoker because we finally did the BIG QUIT......., yea, time for The NOPE Shuffle......... All those triggers are still going to be there as a yearly anniversary but this is the first time we go through them as a nonsmoker. And you can bet your sweet bippy that when each of these recurring things come up, while you may not think about it, the addiction will and even be dumb enough to bring it to your attention because it is the first time for a full year each these things are happening that you will not smoke at these events. So now we must be vigilant in our quit, to not dwell on the urge, time to come to terms , completing our first full year as a non smoker. I have only completed one quarter of my first year as a nonsmoker so I have so much more to go through, but you can bet my sweet bippy that I am aware and taking evasive action to not let the first year FANS take me prisioner during any event. Happy NOPEing and keep on truckin..............Bassman

Welcome over DJ, great to see you here. I bet MQ wouldn't even mind if you put your feet on the couch..... Looking forward to your post.........Bassman

Welcome over here soul, great to see you here.........

yes and I'm waiting for more words for all of ours song........

Self explanatory, I play the bass guitar and I bass fish. So it fits just looking at the name either way, but to say it is for the bass guitar. I learned the 6 string guitar first, but they were a dime a dozen and cheaper to find to play in bands. Bass players weren't as plentiful and found it easier to play in bands. No one tells me how to play so if they wanted me to play a certain way, I'd leave and go find another band...... Why did I like playing in bands.............for the girls silly..........................Bassman

You stop by not having a desire to smoke anymore. you stop by having support from others who stopped but asked that same question as your friend. You stop by getting educated not only on the bad effects of smoking, but also the good. Tell him he'll have support facing the addiction. Tell your friend it's not so mucn how to stop as it is when to stop. When is now, how is to want to and not do it again....NOPE..............Bassman

Hi Carly, welcome... Chantix assisted in my quit and helped make it pretty solid for me. Let us know if you need anything......Bassman

Hi Lynn, so good to see you here, enjoy your stay and looking forward to your post.

Hi Fay, great to see you here, looking forward to you being around.........Bassman

Welcome Craig, if you feel like it, plop down on the quit train couch, prop your feet up and relax. I bet MQ wouldn't even mind if you put your feet on the couch to relax........anyway, good to see you here.

Hold the horses.... Okay, I got a tune. It will be a med slow bluesy in A minor.....it will be a mix of: Pink Floyd Clapton Blues with a touch of slowed down - Wings: Medicine Jar Words won't be exactly as you wrote them as that one was long enough to make 2 songs. I may rearrange some lines to fit the trune but they will be your words credited to you..

A bit late, I was working.......DON'T JUMP...good test

Okay, some of you asked for it... Here is new song for my 3 month quit celebration. It is called: Never Trust..... I wrote the song 40 years ago and this recording was done 6 years ago. Good rocker with cowbell........Bassman http://youtu.be/ffaQMs2Mhl8

I should be there, what time??????? I'll bring my guitar.......

Not yet, but I will soon, promise.....I'm sure I can make a good go of it. I may want to try a good Pink Floyd style.

Welcome WYE.........great to see you here.......Bassman

Howzit Scott, good to see you here, welcome aboard........

Group quitsmoking project involvement requested.... Hi all.....All my songs will now be posted only here on QUITTRAIN from Youtube. MQ was gracious enough to give us a place to put my songs in a pinned post in the Books, Movies, and Music section. With that said, the first quit smoking original song for this board will be a new one I haven't written yet, but want to enlist your help for the words like on the NOPE Shuffle. Add to this post, phrases or sentences referencing quit smoking in any shape or form and I'll put them together and write a tune. The song will belong to all of us. It will be called.......... "The NTAP Shuffle". Don't be thinking you don't have the ability for some words, you'll be suprised and they don't necessarily need to rhyme............... Let's give this a go and see if we can put together an official QUITTRAIN board song...........So lets get some words in here......................Bassman

Yes, great to see all....

Welcome aboard Comrade....good to see you here and hope you're doing well............

HAT, you are on the every mobile NOPE mode, if it moves, if it says NOPE, you're on it...............glad to see ya today..........Bassman

Okay you got me going too so lets all do the NOPE Shuffle together.... http://youtu.be/m258n2jqFGQ