Quit Smoking In NYC...

Got this infomation from NYC.gov's health section. Since the price in
sickerettes has gone up again there has been renewed interest in
getting smober. Here's the press release...
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/pr2008/pr051-08.shtml

FlatironMike
One year, four months, four weeks, one day, 18 hours, 8 minutes and 22
seconds. 10315 cigarettes not smoked, saving $3,094.28. Life saved: 5
weeks, 19 hours, 35 minutes.

On Jul 10, 4:39�pm, FlatIronMike <FlatironMike...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Got this infomation from NYC.gov's health section. �Since the price in
> sickerettes has gone up again there has been renewed interest in
> getting smober. �Here's the press release...http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/pr2008/pr051-08.shtml
>
> FlatironMike
> One year, four months, four weeks, one day, 18 hours, 8 minutes and 22
> seconds. 10315 cigarettes not smoked, saving $3,094.28. Life saved: 5
> weeks, 19 hours, 35 minutes.

Good article. Ten dollars a pack!!! Oh my. Aren't you glad you don't
smoke
Annette
Nicotine free for six months, three weeks, 18 hours, 42 minutes and 25
seconds. 2047 cigarettes not smoked, saving $358.29. Life saved: 1
week, 2 hours, 35 minutes.

On Jul 10, 3:39�pm, FlatIronMike <FlatironMike...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Got this infomation from NYC.gov's health section. �Since the price in
> sickerettes has gone up again there has been renewed interest in
> getting smober. �Here's the press release...http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/pr2008/pr051-08.shtml
>
> FlatironMike
> One year, four months, four weeks, one day, 18 hours, 8 minutes and 22
> seconds. 10315 cigarettes not smoked, saving $3,094.28. Life saved: 5
> weeks, 19 hours, 35 minutes.

Hi, Mike. Ten bucks a pack!!!! I can't remember what they cost back
in 1997 when I quit, but I was smoking at least 2 packs a day, more if
I went out in the evening. I am aghast at the idea of burning up
$20.00 a day on a vile habit that will kill you.

I never got a meter because I didn't want some little bug thing
ticking away on my computer reminding me of my bad habit. But I did
the next best thing; I kept track on a wall calendar and I kept each
and every one of them. I used Nicoderm patches and they came with
little stick-on seals to paste on your calendar when you were coming
down the stretch of the six weeks without a smoke. That ploy worked
so well with me that I keep track on a wall calendar every year. It
helps that the World Wildlife Federation keeps sending me new
calendars every year. And you know how every charity you have ever
contributed to has your name and address and sends you mailing labels
to put on your outgoing mail. Well I have so many of those now, I use
them on my mail and still have hundreds of labels left over. So I cut
off the picture, whatever it is, and stick it on my calendar. Today's
picture is of a cute baby seal from the National Wildlife Federation.
And I have saved every one of those calendars. Kind of makes me happy
to see them all in a row in my bookshelf. The only drawback is that I
will never really know how much money I have saved by not smoking. I
guess the cost of smoking was never the point with me; it was always a
health question.

Joyce
10 years 7 months 2 weeks 6 days on 7/10/08

On Jul 11, 6:59 am, kestrel <joyh...@aol.com> wrote:

> And I have saved every one of those calendars. Kind of makes me happy
> to see them all in a row in my bookshelf.

Would that be called 'bibliofeedback?'

> The only drawback is that I
> will never really know how much money I have saved by not smoking.

Download the meter, use an average of $7 per pack, and run it once.
That will tell you how much you've saved! Then you can just remove the
meter from the startup menu. In a few years you can run it again, bump
up the price another dollar or two, and see how much more you've
saved.

$10 per pack.... amazing. I remember the cigarette machine in the
lobby of the building I grew up in. My mother smoked Chesterfields and
she'd send me to the machine with a quarter, and the pack would come
out with two pennies taped to the side for change.
I
> 10 years 7 months 2 weeks 6 days on 7/10/08

Doesn't that really feel good!!! )
I'm getting excited by my next upcoming milestone... I'm a month and
10 days away from the 10 year mark. I never would have believed it
could be done.... But I did it... one day at a time. ODAT!

Steve Kramer
Chiang Mai, Thailand
http://www.photoenvisions.com

It's like a race between Cigarettes and Gasoline. Thank God, I quit smoking
cigs, and drinking gasoline.

--
AZ
"FlatIronMike" <FlatironMikeNYC@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:b57baddf-cac0-4501-ba5f-c20348ce5571@k37g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
> Got this infomation from NYC.gov's health section. Since the price in
> sickerettes has gone up again there has been renewed interest in
> getting smober. Here's the press release...
> http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/pr2008/pr051-08.shtml
>
> FlatironMike
> One year, four months, four weeks, one day, 18 hours, 8 minutes and 22
> seconds. 10315 cigarettes not smoked, saving $3,094.28. Life saved: 5
> weeks, 19 hours, 35 minutes.

On Jul 10, 4:39*pm, FlatIronMike <FlatironMike...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Got this infomation from NYC.gov's health section. *Since the price in
> sickerettes has gone up again there has been renewed interest in
> getting smober. *Here's the press release...http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/pr2008/pr051-08.shtml
>
> FlatironMike
> One year, four months, four weeks, one day, 18 hours, 8 minutes and 22
> seconds. 10315 cigarettes not smoked, saving $3,094.28. Life saved: 5
> weeks, 19 hours, 35 minutes.

Hey Mike can we go back in and adjust our meters? Someone needs to
make a meter that allows us to update the $$$ as the cost of the
smokes goes up.

I can't believe what I was wiling to pay. Without A3S I'd be paying
it still.

On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:39:04 -0700 (PDT), FlatIronMike
<FlatironMikeNYC@gmail.com> wrote:

>Got this infomation from NYC.gov's health section. Since the price in
>sickerettes has gone up again there has been renewed interest in
>getting smober. Here's the press release...
>http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/pr2008/pr051-08.shtml
>
>FlatironMike
>One year, four months, four weeks, one day, 18 hours, 8 minutes and 22
>seconds. 10315 cigarettes not smoked, saving $3,094.28. Life saved: 5
>weeks, 19 hours, 35 minutes.

Are they going to increase the price/tax on Ho Hos and Twinkies and
potato chips and greasy burgers and Three Musketeers and Keebler
chocolate chip cookies? Might discourage people from poor eating
habits. Oh, no. Probably not.
Sue

Well, Joyce, me being me, I did a meter for you using the $10 a pack
and 2 packs a day...

Ten years, seven months, three weeks, 14 hours, 13 minutes and 58
seconds. 155463 cigarettes not smoked, saving $77,731.02. Life saved:
1 year, 24 weeks, 19 hours, 15 minutes.

Now you can relax and kick back and figure where the $77K went! <G>

FlatironMike
One year, five months, 15 hours, 46 minutes and 8 seconds. 10333
cigarettes not smoked, saving $3,099.69. Life saved: 5 weeks, 21
hours, 5 minutes.

On Jul 11, 10:46*am, "st...@seatraveler.com" <SteveKram...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> > 10 years 7 months 2 weeks 6 days on 7/10/08
>
> Doesn't that really feel good!!! *)
> I'm getting excited by my next upcoming milestone... I'm a month and
> 10 days away from the 10 year mark. I never would have believed it
> could be done.... But I did it... one day at a time. ODAT!
>
> Steve Kramer
> Chiang Mai, Thailand

***** "I'm good, I know it, and I have no need for false humility. I'm
proud
of who and what I am. And even prouder of what I'm becoming."

Steve Kramer

On Jul 12, 3:59*pm, LarbGai <larb...@lycos.com> wrote:
> On Jul 11, 10:46*am, "st...@seatraveler.com" <SteveKram...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > > 10 years 7 months 2 weeks 6 days on 7/10/08
>
> > Doesn't that really feel good!!! *)
> > I'm getting excited by my next upcoming milestone... I'm a month and
> > 10 days away from the 10 year mark. I never would have believed it
> > could be done.... But I did it... one day at a time. ODAT!
>
> > Steve Kramer
> > Chiang Mai, Thailand
>
> ***** "I'm good, I know it, and I have no need for false humility. I'm
> proud
> of who and what I am. And even prouder of what I'm becoming."
>
> Steve Kramer

***I hope you are on the "Deportation Clock" with Thai Immigration
Pinkie; forget the cigar watch...Lets pack it up and Vamousse out of
the Kingdom...The place is polluted enough as it is without you
spilling your verbal sewage anymore...You've been nailed to the cross
by the TROLLS...admit it Pinkie, you lost!..:-) *Afro Style grin*

On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:46:01 -0700 (PDT), "steve@seatraveler.com"
<SteveKramer2@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Jul 11, 6:59 am, kestrel <joyh...@aol.com> wrote:
>
>> And I have saved every one of those calendars. Kind of makes me happy
>> to see them all in a row in my bookshelf.
>
>Would that be called 'bibliofeedback?'
>
>> The only drawback is that I
>> will never really know how much money I have saved by not smoking.
>
>Download the meter, use an average of $7 per pack, and run it once.
>That will tell you how much you've saved! Then you can just remove the
>meter from the startup menu. In a few years you can run it again, bump
>up the price another dollar or two, and see how much more you've
>saved.
>
>$10 per pack.... amazing. I remember the cigarette machine in the
>lobby of the building I grew up in. My mother smoked Chesterfields and
>she'd send me to the machine with a quarter, and the pack would come
>out with two pennies taped to the side for change.
> I
>> 10 years 7 months 2 weeks 6 days on 7/10/08
>
>Doesn't that really feel good!!! )
>I'm getting excited by my next upcoming milestone... I'm a month and
>10 days away from the 10 year mark. I never would have believed it
>could be done.... But I did it... one day at a time. ODAT!
>
>Steve Kramer
>Chiang Mai, Thailand
>http://www.photoenvisions.com

Good to see you, Steve, but why did you cross post to another NG?
Sue

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