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One year-no cigarettes - 9/27/2007 7:06:16 AM

MissSCD

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Greetings to one an all.

Today is my one year anniversary date from quiting smoking. It is also my anniversary date from my hysterectomy.
I did not care if I had a cigarrette or not for two days, so I kicked the habit.
It has been difficult since most people I know smoke. You can do it. It is an addition just like drugs or anything else.
I could not breathe after the surgery. I quit. If I can quit, you can too. Email me if you ever want to talk about it.

Regards, MissSCD

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RE: One year-no cigarettes - 9/27/2007 7:08:53 AM

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Congrats, I've never personally been through that. Have been close to people who tried to quit. I know the hell you must have went through and you've survived.

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RE: One year-no cigarettes - 9/27/2007 7:13:53 AM

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i am a nonsmoker. im very wheazy near smoke. somehow i simply dont go to comedy shows, bars, bingo, gatherings where there is smoke.

I am going to award the OP as post of the day. You serve as an inspiration!!!

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RE: One year-no cigarettes - 9/27/2007 7:19:22 AM

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When I was born, my Mom had smoked through her pregnancy (hey, it was the 1960's). I was then raised in a cloud of smoke until I started burning my own cigarettes when I was about ten, and so I've been hooked on nicotine all my life until I quit an January 15th of this year.

I caught a bad flu, which made cigarettes taste like shit. Kind of the same method you used to quit, in a way. It works, it's effective. I had been trying to quit for over twenty years before, but I wasn't even tempted to smoke again for about two months after that flu. But then, after that initial two months, I started to obsess over the idea of smoking again. Those very extreme obsessive / compulsive feelings lasted for about five months, but I muddied through it mostly by telling myself that I control my destiny until I smoke that first hit but that after that, the cigarettes would control me.

Congratulations on your year, I'm looking forward to mine. I already feel a lot better, and I can climb sixteen stories of stairs (about 200 feet) in under six minutes now. It's great - and I owe it all to a bad flu.

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RE: One year-no cigarettes - 9/27/2007 7:55:21 AM

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Well Santity:

Some times things happen for a reason. If it took the flu to kick the habit, congrats to you.
I issue you a challenge. Don't you pick up a cigarette without emailing me here to tell me about it.

Regards, MissSCD

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RE: One year-no cigarettes - 9/27/2007 10:11:07 AM

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Congratulations!!!!

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RE: One year-no cigarettes - 9/29/2007 8:43:20 PM

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Congrats MissSCD.
Not an easy thing to do with or without any reasons. I applaud you

And Sanitiy ay least you tried, and proved to yourselfwhen your ready to, you can do it :)

Be safe folks

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RE: One year-no cigarettes - 9/29/2007 8:49:02 PM

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Congrats MissSCD and Sanity.

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RE: One year-no cigarettes - 9/29/2007 9:16:01 PM

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