What makes you stay quit?

Sometimes I wonder what makes me stay quit. I don't have a good reason to
live to a ripe old age... I live with a chronic pain condition that makes
life less than fun most of the time and I still haven't lost the weight I
put on when I got this illness, nor the further weight I put on when I quit
smoking. It all adds up to over 50 pounds.... sooo depressing. No diet works
for me at age 54 nor does increased exercise makes me lose....

And, I still miss smoking sometimes and I have several friends who still
smoke and I don't hang out in too many places where you're not allowed to
smoke... so WHY do I stay quit???

Because it means I'm no longer a slave needing to light up all the time!
Because it means I don't contribute to making tobacco companies richer!
Because I smell good! Because because I have enough money to pay the dentist
bills!!!...

I AM FREE!

Now add your reasons okay???

Katie
Three years, three months, three days, 13 minutes and 31 seconds. 41615
cigarettes not smoked, saving SFr. 10'403.83. Life saved: 20 weeks, 4 days,
11 hours, 55 minutes.

On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 14:59:19 +0200, "Katie" <vfolle@yahoo.fr> wrote:

>I AM FREE!
>
>Now add your reasons okay???
>
>Katie
>Three years, three months, three days, 13 minutes and 31 seconds. 41615
>cigarettes not smoked, saving SFr. 10'403.83. Life saved: 20 weeks, 4 days,
>11 hours, 55 minutes.


My reason are the same as yours, plus the million others that occur to
me on a regular basis, but the biggest thing that keeps me quit is
knowing that I will never go out in public again smelling like a dirty
ashtray and not knowing it. It always surprised me when people knew I
was a smoker even when I wasn't smoking a stink stick. I'm still
horrified to know I smelled so bad for so many years.

My meter: Two years, nine months, one week, two days, 17 hours, 13
minutes and 7 seconds. 60763 cigarettes not smoked, saving $7,595.38.
Life saved: 30 weeks, 23 hours, 35 minutes. My quit date and time is
September 29, 2004 @ 3:00PM.

--
BessieBee

"OK, so what's the speed of dark?"
Steven Wright

All my various reasons come down to one word - FREEDOM

Freedom from withdrawal every 20 minutes of every day
.... from worrying whether I have "enough" cigs to last until my next trip to
the store
.... from the ineffective attampts to eliminate the smoke stink from my
person
.... from the huge expense
.... from the concern of whether *this* cig is the one that will give me
cancer
.... from the constant planning of when and where I'll get my next fix
.... from guilt

Anne D.

"Katie" <vfolle@yahoo.fr> wrote in message
news:4692307a$0$3788$5402220f@news.sunrise.ch...
> Sometimes I wonder what makes me stay quit. I don't have a good reason to
> live to a ripe old age... I live with a chronic pain condition that makes
> life less than fun most of the time and I still haven't lost the weight I
> put on when I got this illness, nor the further weight I put on when I
> quit smoking. It all adds up to over 50 pounds.... sooo depressing. No
> diet works for me at age 54 nor does increased exercise makes me lose....
>
> And, I still miss smoking sometimes and I have several friends who still
> smoke and I don't hang out in too many places where you're not allowed to
> smoke... so WHY do I stay quit???
>
> Because it means I'm no longer a slave needing to light up all the time!
> Because it means I don't contribute to making tobacco companies richer!
> Because I smell good! Because because I have enough money to pay the
> dentist bills!!!...
>
> I AM FREE!
>
> Now add your reasons okay???
>
> Katie
> Three years, three months, three days, 13 minutes and 31 seconds. 41615
> cigarettes not smoked, saving SFr. 10'403.83. Life saved: 20 weeks, 4
> days, 11 hours, 55 minutes.
>
>
>
>

On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 14:59:19 +0200, "Katie" <vfolle@yahoo.fr> wrote:

>Sometimes I wonder what makes me stay quit. I don't have a good reason to
>live to a ripe old age... I live with a chronic pain condition that makes
>life less than fun most of the time and I still haven't lost the weight I
>put on when I got this illness, nor the further weight I put on when I quit
>smoking. It all adds up to over 50 pounds.... sooo depressing. No diet works
>for me at age 54 nor does increased exercise makes me lose....
>
>And, I still miss smoking sometimes and I have several friends who still
>smoke and I don't hang out in too many places where you're not allowed to
>smoke... so WHY do I stay quit???
>
>Because it means I'm no longer a slave needing to light up all the time!
>Because it means I don't contribute to making tobacco companies richer!
>Because I smell good! Because because I have enough money to pay the dentist
>bills!!!...
>
>I AM FREE!
>
>Now add your reasons okay???

Because I'm 61 years old, am feeling my mortality and don't care to
make my life any shorter than it already is.
Because I don't want to start coughing again and I love being able to
take those deep breaths.
Because I'd like to get my credit cards paid off before I retire.
Because my meter is very precious to me.
Because I would have to come her to AS3 and announce that I'd screwed
up and I couldn't face that.
Because I would disappoint my son.
Because I would disappoint some of my friends.
There are lots more reasons.

I'm sorry you're so unhappy, but good for you for keeping your quit.
Sue
One year, three months, two weeks, four days, 8 hours, 48 minutes and
30 seconds. 15687 cigarettes not smoked, saving $2,611.90. Life saved:
7 weeks, 5 days, 11 hours, 15 minutes.


>
>Katie
>Three years, three months, three days, 13 minutes and 31 seconds. 41615
>cigarettes not smoked, saving SFr. 10'403.83. Life saved: 20 weeks, 4 days,
>11 hours, 55 minutes.
>
>
>

Knowing that if I started again... I'd piss off myself and let my family
down.

Then... there's that whole quitting thing again, and I aint going through
that again!



"Katie" <vfolle@yahoo.fr> wrote in message
news:4692307a$0$3788$5402220f@news.sunrise.ch...
> Sometimes I wonder what makes me stay quit. I don't have a good reason to
> live to a ripe old age... I live with a chronic pain condition that makes
> life less than fun most of the time and I still haven't lost the weight I
> put on when I got this illness, nor the further weight I put on when I
> quit smoking. It all adds up to over 50 pounds.... sooo depressing. No
> diet works for me at age 54 nor does increased exercise makes me lose....
>
> And, I still miss smoking sometimes and I have several friends who still
> smoke and I don't hang out in too many places where you're not allowed to
> smoke... so WHY do I stay quit???
>
> Because it means I'm no longer a slave needing to light up all the time!
> Because it means I don't contribute to making tobacco companies richer!
> Because I smell good! Because because I have enough money to pay the
> dentist bills!!!...
>
> I AM FREE!
>
> Now add your reasons okay???
>
> Katie
> Three years, three months, three days, 13 minutes and 31 seconds. 41615
> cigarettes not smoked, saving SFr. 10'403.83. Life saved: 20 weeks, 4
> days, 11 hours, 55 minutes.
>
>
>
>

This is a great thread-starter Katie.

The old old-timers will remember that after 25 years of smoking I quit
for the same 3 reasons I had begun to smoke:

Peer pressure
Cool thing to go
Made me look older

Immediately, I added to that incentive list a pact with my then-14-year
old athlete daughter that I wouldn't start smoking again, unless she
started (She's 25 and still hasn't smoked, despite my begging when
she was 15-16).

Since then, I've added a mountain of reasons to stay quit. (until I'm
80, right BC Joyce?)
I know I'm one puff away from a pack a day, so I always try to remember:
the imprinted image of Bud Ellis on oxygen
TOO EXPENSIVE (Michigan's sin tax is one fo the highest in the U.S., if
not -the- highest)
The serenity I feel (the absence of the nicotine fixes/withdrawals I
went through upwards of 20-25 times a day
Standing outside when it's -50 degrees windchill, (trying to flick a
Bic truly sucks)
mental stamina
freedom!!!!!!
sneaking around
how horrible those first few days/weeks/months of withdrawals

So far, those incentives are working.

Quit smoking for:
11 years, 3 months, 3 weeks, 3 days, 12 hours, 38 minutes, 20 seconds
Life saved: 9 months, 1 week, 4 days, 1 hours, 12 minutes, 42 seconds

DDJacque
TOF


\On 2007-07-09 08:59:19 -0400, "Katie" <vfolle@yahoo.fr> said:

> Sometimes I wonder what makes me stay quit. I don't have a good reason
> to live to a ripe old age... I live with a chronic pain condition that
> makes life less than fun most of the time and I still haven't lost the
> weight I put on when I got this illness, nor the further weight I put
> on when I quit smoking. It all adds up to over 50 pounds.... sooo
> depressing. No diet works for me at age 54 nor does increased exercise
> makes me lose....
>
> And, I still miss smoking sometimes and I have several friends who
> still smoke and I don't hang out in too many places where you're not
> allowed to smoke... so WHY do I stay quit???
>
> Because it means I'm no longer a slave needing to light up all the
> time! Because it means I don't contribute to making tobacco companies
> richer! Because I smell good! Because because I have enough money to
> pay the dentist bills!!!...
>
> I AM FREE!
>
> Now add your reasons okay???
>
> Katie
> Three years, three months, three days, 13 minutes and 31 seconds. 41615
> cigarettes not smoked, saving SFr. 10'403.83. Life saved: 20 weeks, 4
> days, 11 hours, 55 minutes.


--

i stay quit, because QUITTING IS TOO HARD!






"Katie" <vfolle@yahoo.fr> wrote in message
news:4692307a$0$3788$5402220f@news.sunrise.ch...
> Sometimes I wonder what makes me stay quit. I don't have a good reason to
> live to a ripe old age... I live with a chronic pain condition that makes
> life less than fun most of the time and I still haven't lost the weight I
> put on when I got this illness, nor the further weight I put on when I
> quit smoking. It all adds up to over 50 pounds.... sooo depressing. No
> diet works for me at age 54 nor does increased exercise makes me lose....
>
> And, I still miss smoking sometimes and I have several friends who still
> smoke and I don't hang out in too many places where you're not allowed to
> smoke... so WHY do I stay quit???
>
> Because it means I'm no longer a slave needing to light up all the time!
> Because it means I don't contribute to making tobacco companies richer!
> Because I smell good! Because because I have enough money to pay the
> dentist bills!!!...
>
> I AM FREE!
>
> Now add your reasons okay???
>
> Katie
> Three years, three months, three days, 13 minutes and 31 seconds. 41615
> cigarettes not smoked, saving SFr. 10'403.83. Life saved: 20 weeks, 4
> days, 11 hours, 55 minutes.
>
>
>
>

Because I want to
Because I can
Because I want to show my children NOT to smoke
Because I don't want to be a hypocrit, telling my kids not to smoke,
then light a cigarette, proud of the life's message I just conveyed to
them.
Because I'm afraid to die
Because it is one of the few things in life I *can* control

Inky,

Quitting again since Two weeks, three days, 13 hours, 33 minutes and
56 seconds. 526 stinkers not smoked, saving € 55,86. Life saved: 1
day, 19 hours, 50 minutes.

for me it's having the maturity and understanding to recognize that *one
puff* will wake up my addiction.

Because I don't want to disappoint my mother, my brother, my
boyfriend, my best friend and -- most of all -- myself.
But the biggest motivation for me is that I know, one puff and I've
got another 72 hours of withdrawal ahead of me. I've already seen that
movie and I don't care to see it again.


Ashley

Smoking has been something I've chosen NOT to do for 2 Weeks, 2 Days,
14 hours, 5 minutes and 44 seconds (16 days). I have saved $46.63 by
not smoking 248 cigarettes and I have an additional 20 hours and 40
minutes of my life to show for it. My Quit Date: 6/23/2007 2:15 AM

Great thread and great meter Katie. You are overflowin with 3's
today...<G> Makes the Gnomes itch to come over and seranade ya a
bit. As to why...

all of the reasons other have posted as well as my self-respect.
Quitting for me is saying to myself that I AM worthy of all the
benefits of being smober. For years I've felt 'what the hell' when it
has come to taking care of myself and the past few years I've gotten
more in touch with my self-worth. That freedom lead me right back
here and I'm damn glad to be a part of AS3 again.

FlatironMike
FSS
Four months, four weeks, 18 hours, 51 minutes and 55 seconds. 2975
cigarettes not smoked, saving $892.46. Life saved: 1 week, 3 days, 7
hours, 55 minutes.

On 9 Jul, 13:59, "Katie" <vfo...@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Sometimes I wonder what makes me stay quit. I don't have a good reason to
> live to a ripe old age... I live with a chronic pain condition that makes
> life less than fun most of the time and I still haven't lost the weight I
> put on when I got this illness, nor the further weight I put on when I quit
> smoking. It all adds up to over 50 pounds.... sooo depressing. No diet works
> for me at age 54 nor does increased exercise makes me lose....
>
> And, I still miss smoking sometimes and I have several friends who still
> smoke and I don't hang out in too many places where you're not allowed to
> smoke... so WHY do I stay quit???
>
> Because it means I'm no longer a slave needing to light up all the time!
> Because it means I don't contribute to making tobacco companies richer!
> Because I smell good! Because because I have enough money to pay the dentist
> bills!!!...
>
> I AM FREE!
>
> Now add your reasons okay???
>
> Katie
> Three years, three months, three days, 13 minutes and 31 seconds. 41615
> cigarettes not smoked, saving SFr. 10'403.83. Life saved: 20 weeks, 4 days,
> 11 hours, 55 minutes.

Top Post Katie (I like that name as it is my granddaughters name
except it is spelt Kati.....why do young uns have to do name stuff
like this?) I would like to send you some healing thoughts, hoping
that in some way they could ease your pain.

What makes me stay quit ?

IMHO I think this changes or rather gets added to as your quit goes
on. I think all the above reasons mentioned are extremely valid. I
love reading the new reasons to quit and the benefits of quitting
discovered here.

Smoking tobacco is wrong on so many levels. It does no good and is a
waste of time and money. It brings endless pain and misery to all who
are unlucky enough to succumb to cancer at the worse and the shit load
of lung diseases at best.

Isn't the freedom great ?
The self respect I feel is unsurpassed I honestly have never felt this
good in my life.

Why didn't I do this earlier in my life.... I wasn't grown up enough.
I remember when I first quit I had watched the movie Shawshank
Redemption I posted that I wished I could talk to myself as a youth as
Morgan Freeman's character had wished he had in the film while he was
at a parole hearing. Saying to myself "Chris don't smoke lad".

Lynn "the voice of reason" asked if I would have listened as a
youth. That answer helped me so much to change and grow as a person
it is quite unreal.

All these things I have learned here, all these things I have laughed
at here, the people who answered my posts when I was crawling the
walls I thank you all NOW.

In a nutshell for me it's AS3 that has kept me quit. Bud Ellis got me
here from beyond his grave God bless him. Sure I was ready to quit
but the very fact that I knew there was a group of folk just like me
out there in the big wide world made it so much easier.

Fuck I talk way too much.

Regards Chris

On Jul 9, 7:01 pm, eightpans <chrisco...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 9 Jul, 13:59, "Katie" <vfo...@yahoo.fr> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Sometimes I wonder what makes me stay quit. I don't have a good reason to
> > live to a ripe old age... I live with a chronic pain condition that makes
> > life less than fun most of the time and I still haven't lost the weight I
> > put on when I got this illness, nor the further weight I put on when I quit
> > smoking. It all adds up to over 50 pounds.... sooo depressing. No diet works
> > for me at age 54 nor does increased exercise makes me lose....
>
> > And, I still miss smoking sometimes and I have several friends who still
> > smoke and I don't hang out in too many places where you're not allowed to
> > smoke... so WHY do I stay quit???
>
> > Because it means I'm no longer a slave needing to light up all the time!
> > Because it means I don't contribute to making tobacco companies richer!
> > Because I smell good! Because because I have enough money to pay the dentist
> > bills!!!...
>
> > I AM FREE!
>
> > Now add your reasons okay???
>
> > Katie
> > Three years, three months, three days, 13 minutes and 31 seconds. 41615
> > cigarettes not smoked, saving SFr. 10'403.83. Life saved: 20 weeks, 4 days,
> > 11 hours, 55 minutes.
>
> Top Post Katie (I like that name as it is my granddaughters name
> except it is spelt Kati.....why do young uns have to do name stuff
> like this?) I would like to send you some healing thoughts, hoping
> that in some way they could ease your pain.
>
> What makes me stay quit ?
>
> IMHO I think this changes or rather gets added to as your quit goes
> on. I think all the above reasons mentioned are extremely valid. I
> love reading the new reasons to quit and the benefits of quitting
> discovered here.
>
> Smoking tobacco is wrong on so many levels. It does no good and is a
> waste of time and money. It brings endless pain and misery to all who
> are unlucky enough to succumb to cancer at the worse and the shit load
> of lung diseases at best.
>
> Isn't the freedom great ?
> The self respect I feel is unsurpassed I honestly have never felt this
> good in my life.
>
> Why didn't I do this earlier in my life.... I wasn't grown up enough.
> I remember when I first quit I had watched the movie Shawshank
> Redemption I posted that I wished I could talk to myself as a youth as
> Morgan Freeman's character had wished he had in the film while he was
> at a parole hearing. Saying to myself "Chris don't smoke lad".
>
> Lynn "the voice of reason" asked if I would have listened as a
> youth. That answer helped me so much to change and grow as a person
> it is quite unreal.
>
> All these things I have learned here, all these things I have laughed
> at here, the people who answered my posts when I was crawling the
> walls I thank you all NOW.
>
> In a nutshell for me it's AS3 that has kept me quit. Bud Ellis got me
> here from beyond his grave God bless him. Sure I was ready to quit
> but the very fact that I knew there was a group of folk just like me
> out there in the big wide world made it so much easier.
>
> Fuck I talk way too much.
>
> Regards Chris- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Because I thought I'd die if I didn't quit. I didn't WANT to quit - I
thought I liked smoking. I didn't realize, I guess, that it was an
addiction until I decided to quit and got educated. Smoking kills, and
I already knew that - but not "me", right?
Hugs,
Pam

"eightpans" <chrisconro@googlemail.com> wrote in message
news:1184022069.791548.7300@57g2000hsv.googlegroup s.com...

> Top Post Katie (I like that name as it is my granddaughters name
> except it is spelt Kati.....why do young uns have to do name stuff
> like this?) I would like to send you some healing thoughts, hoping
> that in some way they could ease your pain.
>
> What makes me stay quit ?
>
> IMHO I think this changes or rather gets added to as your quit goes
> on. I think all the above reasons mentioned are extremely valid. I
> love reading the new reasons to quit and the benefits of quitting
> discovered here.
>
> Smoking tobacco is wrong on so many levels. It does no good and is a
> waste of time and money. It brings endless pain and misery to all who
> are unlucky enough to succumb to cancer at the worse and the shit load
> of lung diseases at best.
>
> Isn't the freedom great ?
> The self respect I feel is unsurpassed I honestly have never felt this
> good in my life.
>
> Why didn't I do this earlier in my life.... I wasn't grown up enough.
> I remember when I first quit I had watched the movie Shawshank
> Redemption I posted that I wished I could talk to myself as a youth as
> Morgan Freeman's character had wished he had in the film while he was
> at a parole hearing. Saying to myself "Chris don't smoke lad".
>
> Lynn "the voice of reason" asked if I would have listened as a
> youth. That answer helped me so much to change and grow as a person
> it is quite unreal.
>
> All these things I have learned here, all these things I have laughed
> at here, the people who answered my posts when I was crawling the
> walls I thank you all NOW.
>
> In a nutshell for me it's AS3 that has kept me quit. Bud Ellis got me
> here from beyond his grave God bless him. Sure I was ready to quit
> but the very fact that I knew there was a group of folk just like me
> out there in the big wide world made it so much easier.
>
> Fuck I talk way too much.
>
> Regards Chris
>
IMHO Chris you don't talk enough. I have seen and read a whole pile of
posts here in AS3 and the post you have made is perfect. You even got the F
word in

I have quit for me
I stay quit for me, Sarah and Nick
I will never smoke again because I have learned to be free again.
I feel like I can't let down this group.
I have found new friends and I will never loose them....AS3

Steve,
Steve and Sarah

"FlatIronMike" <FlatironMikeNYC@gmail.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
1184016134.933175.152900@n60g2000hse.googlegroups. com...
> Great thread and great meter Katie. You are overflowin with 3's
> today...<G> Makes the Gnomes itch to come over and seranade ya a
> bit. As to why...
>
> all of the reasons other have posted as well as my self-respect.
> Quitting for me is saying to myself that I AM worthy of all the
> benefits of being smober. For years I've felt 'what the hell' when it
> has come to taking care of myself and the past few years I've gotten
> more in touch with my self-worth. That freedom lead me right back
> here and I'm damn glad to be a part of AS3 again.

So true Mike. I started this thread because I thought it would be helpful to
everyone and your post is helpful to me. I mean, what does it say about my
sense of self worth if I asphyxiate myself daily? There was always this tiny
voice in me when I lit my umpteenth cig of the day and it was saying "I want
to breathe, I don't want to smoke!"

K.
>
> FlatironMike
> FSS
> Four months, four weeks, 18 hours, 51 minutes and 55 seconds. 2975
> cigarettes not smoked, saving $892.46. Life saved: 1 week, 3 days, 7
> hours, 55 minutes.
>

"DDJacque" <shoppell@msu.edu> a écrit dans le message de news:
f6togr$vd5$1@news.msu.edu...
> This is a great thread-starter Katie.
>
> The old old-timers will remember that after 25 years of smoking I quit for
> the same 3 reasons I had begun to smoke:
>
> Peer pressure
> Cool thing to go
> Made me look older

LOL!

>
> Immediately, I added to that incentive list a pact with my then-14-year
> old athlete daughter that I wouldn't start smoking again, unless she
> started (She's 25 and still hasn't smoked, despite my begging when she
> was 15-16).

LOL again... and GOOD for your daughter!
>
> Since then, I've added a mountain of reasons to stay quit. (until I'm 80,
> right BC Joyce?)

I intend to start up again when I'm 75... but it may be illegal and too
expensive!

K.


> I know I'm one puff away from a pack a day, so I always try to remember:
> the imprinted image of Bud Ellis on oxygen
> TOO EXPENSIVE (Michigan's sin tax is one fo the highest in the U.S., if
> not -the- highest)
> The serenity I feel (the absence of the nicotine fixes/withdrawals I went
> through upwards of 20-25 times a day
> Standing outside when it's -50 degrees windchill, (trying to flick a Bic
> truly sucks)
> mental stamina
> freedom!!!!!!
> sneaking around
> how horrible those first few days/weeks/months of withdrawals
>
> So far, those incentives are working.
>
> Quit smoking for:
> 11 years, 3 months, 3 weeks, 3 days, 12 hours, 38 minutes, 20 seconds
> Life saved: 9 months, 1 week, 4 days, 1 hours, 12 minutes, 42 seconds
>
> DDJacque
> TOF
>
>
> \On 2007-07-09 08:59:19 -0400, "Katie" <vfolle@yahoo.fr> said:
>
>> Sometimes I wonder what makes me stay quit. I don't have a good reason to
>> live to a ripe old age... I live with a chronic pain condition that makes
>> life less than fun most of the time and I still haven't lost the weight I
>> put on when I got this illness, nor the further weight I put on when I
>> quit smoking. It all adds up to over 50 pounds.... sooo depressing. No
>> diet works for me at age 54 nor does increased exercise makes me lose....
>>
>> And, I still miss smoking sometimes and I have several friends who still
>> smoke and I don't hang out in too many places where you're not allowed to
>> smoke... so WHY do I stay quit???
>>
>> Because it means I'm no longer a slave needing to light up all the time!
>> Because it means I don't contribute to making tobacco companies richer!
>> Because I smell good! Because because I have enough money to pay the
>> dentist bills!!!...
>>
>> I AM FREE!
>>
>> Now add your reasons okay???
>>
>> Katie
>> Three years, three months, three days, 13 minutes and 31 seconds. 41615
>> cigarettes not smoked, saving SFr. 10'403.83. Life saved: 20 weeks, 4
>> days, 11 hours, 55 minutes.
>
>
> --
>

Chris, thanks so much for the healing thoughts... Yes, this is a great
place. I don't know if I would have stuck it out without AS3...

by the way, when I was about 12 I changed the spelling of my name to
"Kati"... my Dad was shocked!

all the best,
Katie


"eightpans" <chrisconro@googlemail.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
1184022069.791548.7300@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com...
> On 9 Jul, 13:59, "Katie" <vfo...@yahoo.fr> wrote:
>> Sometimes I wonder what makes me stay quit. I don't have a good reason to
>> live to a ripe old age... I live with a chronic pain condition that makes
>> life less than fun most of the time and I still haven't lost the weight I
>> put on when I got this illness, nor the further weight I put on when I
>> quit
>> smoking. It all adds up to over 50 pounds.... sooo depressing. No diet
>> works
>> for me at age 54 nor does increased exercise makes me lose....
>>
>> And, I still miss smoking sometimes and I have several friends who still
>> smoke and I don't hang out in too many places where you're not allowed to
>> smoke... so WHY do I stay quit???
>>
>> Because it means I'm no longer a slave needing to light up all the time!
>> Because it means I don't contribute to making tobacco companies richer!
>> Because I smell good! Because because I have enough money to pay the
>> dentist
>> bills!!!...
>>
>> I AM FREE!
>>
>> Now add your reasons okay???
>>
>> Katie
>> Three years, three months, three days, 13 minutes and 31 seconds. 41615
>> cigarettes not smoked, saving SFr. 10'403.83. Life saved: 20 weeks, 4
>> days,
>> 11 hours, 55 minutes.
>
> Top Post Katie (I like that name as it is my granddaughters name
> except it is spelt Kati.....why do young uns have to do name stuff
> like this?) I would like to send you some healing thoughts, hoping
> that in some way they could ease your pain.
>
> What makes me stay quit ?
>
> IMHO I think this changes or rather gets added to as your quit goes
> on. I think all the above reasons mentioned are extremely valid. I
> love reading the new reasons to quit and the benefits of quitting
> discovered here.
>
> Smoking tobacco is wrong on so many levels. It does no good and is a
> waste of time and money. It brings endless pain and misery to all who
> are unlucky enough to succumb to cancer at the worse and the shit load
> of lung diseases at best.
>
> Isn't the freedom great ?
> The self respect I feel is unsurpassed I honestly have never felt this
> good in my life.
>
> Why didn't I do this earlier in my life.... I wasn't grown up enough.
> I remember when I first quit I had watched the movie Shawshank
> Redemption I posted that I wished I could talk to myself as a youth as
> Morgan Freeman's character had wished he had in the film while he was
> at a parole hearing. Saying to myself "Chris don't smoke lad".
>
> Lynn "the voice of reason" asked if I would have listened as a
> youth. That answer helped me so much to change and grow as a person
> it is quite unreal.
>
> All these things I have learned here, all these things I have laughed
> at here, the people who answered my posts when I was crawling the
> walls I thank you all NOW.
>
> In a nutshell for me it's AS3 that has kept me quit. Bud Ellis got me
> here from beyond his grave God bless him. Sure I was ready to quit
> but the very fact that I knew there was a group of folk just like me
> out there in the big wide world made it so much easier.
>
> Fuck I talk way too much.
>
> Regards Chris
>
>
>
>
>

I am sorry you are in pain. I know how this is, except my own experiences
have always had an ending, eventually. It is scary to say the least.

Some of my reasons:
Because quitting is too hard, I am still *quitting* and not myself yet
after 7 months.
Because I don't want to start coughing again.
Because I enjoy the increased lung capacity and challenging myself
physically.
Because it is socially unacceptable now,(peer pressure)
Because my quit money buys lots of stuff, including the monthly insurance
on the new truck. One way to stay quit is to make sure there is absolutely
no frigging way you can afford to financially go back to it.

Jbeth.
Seven months, three weeks, 14 hours, 3 minutes and 25 seconds. 4671
cigarettes not smoked, saving $1,868.35. Life saved: 2 weeks, 2 days, 5
hours, 15 minutes.





"Katie" <vfolle@yahoo.fr> wrote in
news:4692307a$0$3788$5402220f@news.sunrise.ch:

> Sometimes I wonder what makes me stay quit. I don't have a good reason
> to live to a ripe old age... I live with a chronic pain condition that
> makes life less than fun most of the time and I still haven't lost the
> weight I put on when I got this illness, nor the further weight I put
> on when I quit smoking. It all adds up to over 50 pounds.... sooo
> depressing. No diet works for me at age 54 nor does increased exercise
> makes me lose....
>
> And, I still miss smoking sometimes and I have several friends who
> still smoke and I don't hang out in too many places where you're not
> allowed to smoke... so WHY do I stay quit???
>
> Because it means I'm no longer a slave needing to light up all the
> time! Because it means I don't contribute to making tobacco companies
> richer! Because I smell good! Because because I have enough money to
> pay the dentist bills!!!...
>
> I AM FREE!
>
> Now add your reasons okay???
>
> Katie
> Three years, three months, three days, 13 minutes and 31 seconds.
> 41615 cigarettes not smoked, saving SFr. 10'403.83. Life saved: 20
> weeks, 4 days, 11 hours, 55 minutes.
>
>
>
>

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:02:49 +0200, "Katie" <vfolle@yahoo.fr> wrote:

>I intend to start up again when I'm 75... but it may be illegal and too
>expensive!

My father's family were all smokers. Heavy smokers. All have passed
now, but his younger sister. I hadn't seen Aunt A for many years when
we had a family reunion of sorts a few years ago. Aunt A is now in her
80s and still as active as always, both mentally and physically.

She had given up smoking a few years earlier (in her late 70s or early
80s) She just stopped. We shared quit stories and one comment she
made that will stick with me always, "Honey, if I found out I was
going to die tomorrow I'd had smoke pouring out of every oriface."

--
BessieBee

"OK, so what's the speed of dark?"
Steven Wright

On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 12:42:03 -0400, DDJacque <shoppell@msu.edu> wrote:

>This is a great thread-starter Katie.

>BC is writing to Katie:
Sure is! Way to go with all those threes, Katie! I hear ya' about
the chronic pain and the 50 pounds. Glad you can at least be free of
something major--all the crap and health problems that go with
smoking.

>The old old-timers will remember that after 25 years of smoking I quit
>for the same 3 reasons I had begun to smoke:
>
>Peer pressure
>Cool thing to go
>Made me look older

You betcha I do, DD J ! One of the most clever things I've ever seen
in this ng.

>Immediately, I added to that incentive list a pact with my then-14-year
>old athlete daughter that I wouldn't start smoking again, unless she
>started (She's 25 and still hasn't smoked, despite my begging when
>she was 15-16).

Heh heh. You _begged_ Val to smoke? You BAD! ;-) My congrats
on raising a kid with the good sense to not listen to you!

>Since then, I've added a mountain of reasons to stay quit. (until I'm
>80, right BC Joyce?)

That's not sounding so "old" anymore. Just celebrated my FIL's
80th. He's still a spring chicken. Can we renegotiate that to
say...89? Still got 'em in your freezer, I suppose.
Ewwwwweeewee...........Barf. That's OK--I still have things in my
freezer from 1967.

>I know I'm one puff away from a pack a day, so I always try to remember:
>the imprinted image of Bud Ellis on oxygen
>TOO EXPENSIVE (Michigan's sin tax is one fo the highest in the U.S., if
>not -the- highest)
>The serenity I feel (the absence of the nicotine fixes/withdrawals I
>went through upwards of 20-25 times a day
>Standing outside when it's -50 degrees windchill, (trying to flick a
>Bic truly sucks)
>mental stamina
>freedom!!!!!!
>sneaking around
>how horrible those first few days/weeks/months of withdrawals
>
>So far, those incentives are working.

Ditto. Also sucked trying to flick a Bic while going 70mph on a
Goldwing. Biker Daddy rigged me a ciggy lighter for the back of the
bike, though. Wasn't he sweet? NOT!

I love it that we've been in our present house for 12 years and I've
NEVER had to wash or paint the walls! The former (and only other)
owners (since 1968) never smoked in it either. Sweet!

Not smoking means FREEDOM in a hundred...or maybe a thousand ways.

>Quit smoking for:
>11 years, 3 months, 3 weeks, 3 days, 12 hours, 38 minutes, 20 seconds
>Life saved: 9 months, 1 week, 4 days, 1 hours, 12 minutes, 42 seconds
>
>DDJacque
>TOF

Love that meter! Love ya! Love AS3!
BC Joyce
TOF--12 years coming up on Aug. 11

>\On 2007-07-09 08:59:19 -0400, "Katie" <vfolle@yahoo.fr> said:
>
>> Sometimes I wonder what makes me stay quit. I don't have a good reason
>> to live to a ripe old age... I live with a chronic pain condition that
>> makes life less than fun most of the time and I still haven't lost the
>> weight I put on when I got this illness, nor the further weight I put
>> on when I quit smoking. It all adds up to over 50 pounds.... sooo
>> depressing. No diet works for me at age 54 nor does increased exercise
>> makes me lose....
>>
>> And, I still miss smoking sometimes and I have several friends who
>> still smoke and I don't hang out in too many places where you're not
>> allowed to smoke... so WHY do I stay quit???
>>
>> Because it means I'm no longer a slave needing to light up all the
>> time! Because it means I don't contribute to making tobacco companies
>> richer! Because I smell good! Because because I have enough money to
>> pay the dentist bills!!!...
>>
>> I AM FREE!
>>
>> Now add your reasons okay???
>>
>> Katie
>> Three years, three months, three days, 13 minutes and 31 seconds. 41615
>> cigarettes not smoked, saving SFr. 10'403.83. Life saved: 20 weeks, 4
>> days, 11 hours, 55 minutes.

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:50:32 GMT, BessieBee
<BessieBee@I_dont_smoke_anymore.com> wrote:

>On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:02:49 +0200, "Katie" <vfolle@yahoo.fr> wrote:
>
>>I intend to start up again when I'm 75... but it may be illegal and too
>>expensive!
>
>My father's family were all smokers. Heavy smokers. All have passed
>now, but his younger sister. I hadn't seen Aunt A for many years when
>we had a family reunion of sorts a few years ago. Aunt A is now in her
>80s and still as active as always, both mentally and physically.
>
>She had given up smoking a few years earlier (in her late 70s or early
>80s) She just stopped. We shared quit stories and one comment she
>made that will stick with me always, "Honey, if I found out I was
>going to die tomorrow I'd had smoke pouring out of every oriface."

LOL. I *like* your aunt!
Sue

I think the biggest thing is that I love who I have become without the
cigarettes.

I had an epiphany last night, after going through some boxes of old "too
small" clothing. I love the new me, weight and all, much more than I love
the old skinny sexy 'and everything else that implies' using drinking
drugging smoking me. I asked my husband and he loves this REAL me much more
too.

That's why I stay quit.
With hope and heart,
Kathleen



"Katie" <vfolle@yahoo.fr> wrote in message
news:4692307a$0$3788$5402220f@news.sunrise.ch...
> Sometimes I wonder what makes me stay quit. I don't have a good reason to
> live to a ripe old age... I live with a chronic pain condition that makes
> life less than fun most of the time and I still haven't lost the weight I
> put on when I got this illness, nor the further weight I put on when I
> quit smoking. It all adds up to over 50 pounds.... sooo depressing. No
> diet works for me at age 54 nor does increased exercise makes me lose....
>
> And, I still miss smoking sometimes and I have several friends who still
> smoke and I don't hang out in too many places where you're not allowed to
> smoke... so WHY do I stay quit???
>
> Because it means I'm no longer a slave needing to light up all the time!
> Because it means I don't contribute to making tobacco companies richer!
> Because I smell good! Because because I have enough money to pay the
> dentist bills!!!...
>
> I AM FREE!
>
> Now add your reasons okay???
>
> Katie
> Three years, three months, three days, 13 minutes and 31 seconds. 41615
> cigarettes not smoked, saving SFr. 10'403.83. Life saved: 20 weeks, 4
> days, 11 hours, 55 minutes.
>
>
>
>

I am so sorry you are having such a difficult time right now, but what a
wonderful thread idea Katie!! For me, the reasons to stay quit are simple:

To make sure I am here for as long as possible, for this child and for any
other children I may have in the future. I owe them that much.

--
Lots of love
Summer (007) -- 5M+
_________________________________________________

e-Mail: summer DOT cashmore AT ntlworld DOT com
http://www.summcash.blogspot.com/
"Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
That way, if he gets angry, he's a mile away and barefoot."
_________________________________________________



"Katie" <vfolle@yahoo.fr> wrote in message
news:4692307a$0$3788$5402220f@news.sunrise.ch...
> Sometimes I wonder what makes me stay quit. I don't have a good reason to
> live to a ripe old age... I live with a chronic pain condition that makes
> life less than fun most of the time and I still haven't lost the weight I
> put on when I got this illness, nor the further weight I put on when I
quit
> smoking. It all adds up to over 50 pounds.... sooo depressing. No diet
works
> for me at age 54 nor does increased exercise makes me lose....
>
> And, I still miss smoking sometimes and I have several friends who still
> smoke and I don't hang out in too many places where you're not allowed to
> smoke... so WHY do I stay quit???
>
> Because it means I'm no longer a slave needing to light up all the time!
> Because it means I don't contribute to making tobacco companies richer!
> Because I smell good! Because because I have enough money to pay the
dentist
> bills!!!...
>
> I AM FREE!
>
> Now add your reasons okay???
>
> Katie
> Three years, three months, three days, 13 minutes and 31 seconds. 41615
> cigarettes not smoked, saving SFr. 10'403.83. Life saved: 20 weeks, 4
days,
> 11 hours, 55 minutes.
>
>
>
>

I quit because....
I have to think why...
I think the first reason was because I knew if I didnt THEN..RIGHT
THEN...that I would have a heart attack.
My incentive to continue to reach this goal was then...MY SELF
WORTH..I wanted to feel better about myself. I smoked because I didnt
have any self worth.
Because I want to attract good things in my life...especially good
people.

I was up for the challenge - I needed the challenge to prove to
myself, that I could do it - THIS would increase my self respect and
self worth.

There are many other reasons, like; Its disgusting. Its slow suicide.

Then I educated myself a bit..and discovered JUST HOW DANGEROUS these
things are....Oh sht...and I was doing that to myself??
4000 chemicals ??? car exhaust and rat poison to be a couple of
them ???

Because I wanted to GET HEALTHY...and move away from someone in my
past..and smoking is one way...and a damn good way.

Even if you have one reason...and you thgink its a silly one..IT
ISNT..........Any reason is a DAMN GOOD REASON to end the shit.

I didnt know though that I would be struggling with this as I read
some of you older folks - I thought, once quit...say like a
year...then never to be bothered by it again. Im reading thats not
true....and that I find a lil frightening (for lack of a better word)

Silent Night
Steve
Three weeks, three days, 16 hours, 59 minutes and 0 seconds. 617
cigarettes not smoked, saving $98.83. Life saved: 2 days, 3 hours, 25
minutes.

Congrats on your 3's Katie and thank you for a fantastic thread!

Wow...There are sooo many reasons I will not smoke. Most have been
mentioned.

We are free!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cheers!
Cat




"Katie" <vfolle@yahoo.fr> wrote in message
news:4692307a$0$3788$5402220f@news.sunrise.ch...
> Sometimes I wonder what makes me stay quit. I don't have a good reason to
> live to a ripe old age... I live with a chronic pain condition that makes
> life less than fun most of the time and I still haven't lost the weight I
> put on when I got this illness, nor the further weight I put on when I
> quit smoking. It all adds up to over 50 pounds.... sooo depressing. No
> diet works for me at age 54 nor does increased exercise makes me lose....
>
> And, I still miss smoking sometimes and I have several friends who still
> smoke and I don't hang out in too many places where you're not allowed to
> smoke... so WHY do I stay quit???
>
> Because it means I'm no longer a slave needing to light up all the time!
> Because it means I don't contribute to making tobacco companies richer!
> Because I smell good! Because because I have enough money to pay the
> dentist bills!!!...
>
> I AM FREE!
>
> Now add your reasons okay???
>
> Katie
> Three years, three months, three days, 13 minutes and 31 seconds. 41615
> cigarettes not smoked, saving SFr. 10'403.83. Life saved: 20 weeks, 4
> days, 11 hours, 55 minutes.
>
>
>
>

Bingo! Me too!



"EchoTalkAbout" <echoinalberta@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:09b55d3f9bf85cf79ab610983a503d1d@localhost.ta lkaboutsupport.com...
> for me it's having the maturity and understanding to recognize that *one
> puff* will wake up my addiction.
>
>

On 2007-07-10 09:44:49 -0400, Joyce <marjo@not.a.valid.address.com> said:
>
>> Since then, I've added a mountain of reasons to stay quit. (until I'm
>> 80, right BC Joyce?)
>
> That's not sounding so "old" anymore. Just celebrated my FIL's
> 80th. He's still a spring chicken. Can we renegotiate that to
> say...89? Still got 'em in your freezer, I suppose.
> Ewwwwweeewee...........Barf. That's OK--I still have things in my
> freezer from 1967.

89? Geez. let's compromise on 85. Deal? I didn't keep those
cigarettes all this time. I threw those 3 packs out of my freezer on
my 3-year anniversary. HA!

>
> Love that meter! Love ya! Love AS3!
> BC Joyce
> TOF--12 years coming up on Aug. 11

Wow, 12 years. You're awesome!! I love you too, sweetie.

DDJacque
TOF (chasing BCJoyce)

\

On Jul 9, 11:42?am, DDJacque <shopp...@msu.edu> wrote:
> This is a great thread-starter Katie.
>
> The old old-timers will remember that after 25 years of smoking I quit
> for the same 3 reasons I had begun to smoke:
>
> Peer pressure
> Cool thing to go
> Made me look older
>
> Immediately, I added to that incentive list a pact with my then-14-year
> old athlete daughter that I wouldn't start smoking again, unless she
> started (She's 25 and still hasn't smoked, despite my begging when
> she was 15-16).
>
> Since then, I've added a mountain of reasons to stay quit. (until I'm
> 80, right BC Joyce?)
> I know I'm one puff away from a pack a day, so I always try to remember:
> the imprinted image of Bud Ellis on oxygen
> TOO EXPENSIVE (Michigan's sin tax is one fo the highest in the U.S., if
> not -the- highest)
> The serenity I feel (the absence of the nicotine fixes/withdrawals I
> went through upwards of 20-25 times a day
> Standing outside when it's -50 degrees windchill, (trying to flick a
> Bic truly sucks)
> mental stamina
> freedom!!!!!!
> sneaking around
> how horrible those first few days/weeks/months of withdrawals
>
> So far, those incentives are working.
>
> Quit smoking for:
> 11 years, 3 months, 3 weeks, 3 days, 12 hours, 38 minutes, 20 seconds
> Life saved: 9 months, 1 week, 4 days, 1 hours, 12 minutes, 42 seconds
>
> DDJacque
> TOF
>
> \On 2007-07-09 08:59:19 -0400, "Katie" <vfo...@yahoo.fr> said:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Sometimes I wonder what makes me stay quit. I don't have a good reason
> > to live to a ripe old age... I live with a chronic pain condition that
> > makes life less than fun most of the time and I still haven't lost the
> > weight I put on when I got this illness, nor the further weight I put
> > on when I quit smoking. It all adds up to over 50 pounds.... sooo
> > depressing. No diet works for me at age 54 nor does increased exercise
> > makes me lose....
>
> > And, I still miss smoking sometimes and I have several friends who
> > still smoke and I don't hang out in too many places where you're not
> > allowed to smoke... so WHY do I stay quit???
>
> > Because it means I'm no longer a slave needing to light up all the
> > time! Because it means I don't contribute to making tobacco companies
> > richer! Because I smell good! Because because I have enough money to
> > pay the dentist bills!!!...
>
> > I AM FREE!
>
> > Now add your reasons okay???
>
> > Katie
> > Three years, three months, three days, 13 minutes and 31 seconds. 41615
> > cigarettes not smoked, saving SFr. 10'403.83. Life saved: 20 weeks, 4
> > days, 11 hours, 55 minutes.
>
> --- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Hi, DDJacque, I have to admit that I really haven't dared to examine
my resons for quitting. I am too afraid to look into iit too deeply,
lest I might find the old rationale for smoking int the first place,
I am so proud of you and BC Joyce who set the pace for me. Oh, those
were the days. You two were my shining beacons. How could I smoke a
single dreadful gasper with the two of you champions watching my every
step? My thanks to you all all of those who were AS3 all those years
ago. It's great to see you here. I did not visit AS3 for a very
long time. It was Mike who drew me back and I'm glad he did. Now I
would really find a support group for quitting Edy's Grand Silk ice
cream. That is an addicition to die for. I don't even have to have
it in the fridge. My mouth starts salivating at the mere mention.
And no, I am not going to run madly down to the corner supermarket
where I know it is lurking int the freezer, just waiting to pounce on
an addict like me.

Joyce