How very very odd? Wondering why I feel the way I do? Like I just want to go out and smoke a pack. I know I feel edgy and almost sick to my stomach and that might have something to do with this. That feeling of being sick is almost like swallowing down the cough gag after smoking. ???????? HMMMM wondering. I know that this isn't supposed to happen and this is where I am. Wondering what is going on with me. ????????????? Knowing that I won't smoke no matter what. I might just have to call in sick and go to bed. Perhaps if I have a nice bowl of soup. Maybe I OD'D on coffee and I only had two this am. Some very little bit of new stuff nothing really stressful and I don't think that that would set off what is happening in my body? Flu? I don't know???? I do know I won't smoke. I do know I'll explore a little further, have something nice for lunch and chill a bit, just let myself see what exactly is going on. Thought I would just write this down and see what might come form all those around. NOPE Phillip [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 2/17/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 279 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 6,989 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $2232 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 45 [B]Hrs:[/B] 13 [B]Mins:[/B] 24 [B]Seconds:[/B] 41

Up and at'em this morning. Did an eight hour shift yesterday as a volunteer host for a breast cancer screening imagery machinery fundraiser. Way north of home. Was a wonderful fun experience. The only strange and sad thing was seeing people who had paid a lot for the tickets to this event all dressed up, wearing pink ribbons of remembrance and awareness and reaking of smoke. I felt sad and frustrated at the same time. I hope they will make it through despite the huge danger they put themselves into by smoking. I hope they will never have to use the services of the clinic that will benefit from this fundraiser. Back to the job for another day. I felt great having volunteered and given my time to such a great cause. Over and out Phillip :confuse: [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 2/17/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 274 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 6,859 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $2192 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 44 [B]Hrs:[/B] 17 [B]Mins:[/B] 15 [B]Seconds:[/B] 17

Nine Months! Nine months! Thats how much time has gone by and oh so much water under the bridge. WOOOOOO HOOOOO. I am excited when month ten rolls around I will be celebrating in the Piazza San Marco in Venice. So so very excited and that excitement has spread into every aspect of joy in my life at this moment. This can be done. I know there is all kinds of "stuff" to get through; however, despite everything the journey out the otherside is a fantastic feeling. The journey really is the destination. WOOHOO Nothing better. :) :p ;p :eg: ;p :p :eg: :gasp: :blush: :eg: [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 2/17/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 272 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 6,824 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $2176 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 44 [B]Hrs:[/B] 11 [B]Mins:[/B] 43 [B]Seconds:[/B] 42

Jan I don't go until the middle of December and we get back at the end of the month. I am still around. I hope you are well and that all is going well with you. :) I came in and looked and looked for the post that I made the link to, "One Man's Opinion of the "Quit Meter", cause I could not find it. Because it is locked I can not bump it. This post was instrumental in helping me keep my quit. Rob47 was a huge piece of that and my laughter was also a nice piece. The more I laughed and smiled the less I felt like smoking. All attached I believe to dopamine levels. Besides it is really hard to laugh and smoke and I choose laughter every time. Another piece in my sadness today is that I miss some of the chracters that posted here when I first started. The camaraderie and the laughter was great. Phillip [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 2/17/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 269 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 6,742 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $2152 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 43 [B]Hrs:[/B] 22 [B]Mins:[/B] 46 [B]Seconds:[/B] 21

In light of some of the reading I have been doing here today. I wanted to place this in a position where I could find it. [url=http://www.stopsmokingcenter.net/support/viewmessages.aspx?topic=28184&forum=18]One Man's Opinion on the "Quit Meter"[/url] [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 2/17/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 269 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 6,742 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $2152 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 43 [B]Hrs:[/B] 22 [B]Mins:[/B] 43 [B]Seconds:[/B] 39

So LIFE is choosing me as I choose LIFE! MMMMMMM Through some of the nastiest of testing. My Mom is doing much better and my dog is walking on her own. Many things, many things conspiring to bring me to the brink and I simply choose to live and keep on giving what I can for the journey of life to continue. I have made it through 262 days and the nineth month is coming around. I have not smoked ++6500 cigarettes and saved ++$2000.00 . I really had fun because I promised myself in February that if I made it through I would go to Venice well I have booked the tickets and have a fantastic apartment looking over the Piazza San Marco and nothing will sway me from the path of committment I am on. Christmas Day in Florence. I am so excited and I spend my time planning and reveling in what a few months can do and has done for me and my life. Cheers Congrats to all those February quitters moving through here. Stay strong you can do it, to all you new quitters. As the days get shorter and winter moves in to the land, for me, the quit becomes more and more a part of my life and the newfound gift of easy breathing that I am giving myself. CIAO Phillip [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 2/17/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 262 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 6,559 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $2096 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 42 [B]Hrs:[/B] 18 [B]Mins:[/B] 15 [B]Seconds:[/B] 49

Marie Absolutely PROUD of beating the odds. Happy, excited and pleasantly surprised that I can and have actually been able to do this. Particularly when so many of my community members who can not or do not quit even with the knowledge that they have, cancer, heart disease, lymph bases cancer and evern AIDS. I went back and read the article (which speaks to how a community can be so in denial) and I will post it in another thread. So yes I am pround and very happy that I am choosing LIFE. NOPE and on day one hour at a time. Cheers Phillip :) [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 2/17/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 254 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 6,361 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $2032 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 41 [B]Hrs:[/B] 11 [B]Mins:[/B] 22 [B]Seconds:[/B] 0

Hello ALL! What a bunch of fantastic quitters!HMMMM I just wanted to creep in and clear some of the cobwebs. AND take a moment to celebrate the latest of, for me, milestones. 253 days thats 36 weeks, 6072 hours and a whole lot of minutes, like 364,320. Every one of these is a milestone, every one of these minutes hours days and weeks is an achievement and I am happy and surprised that I have kept my word to myself for so long. As the weather gets colder it is going to be more like when I started, Back in February it was cold, the days were short and there was a lot of dark. The season idea makes a huge amount of sense to me know. As I watch, feel, and experience how my quit is and how I am with my quit. I am on the whole happy. There has been for me not a whole lot of ease with this quit life. It is something really new and I need to manuever and shift my life to fit with that of a non smoker. Sometimes that is very humbling because as a smoker I was sometimes arrogant and would just turn round and leave from whereever I was to go have a smoke. Last night I went to dinner with a group of seven other people there was non of that. I was there, connected and part of the group for the whole night. It was a pleasure being all there, having all of me present and fully accounted for. I still get headaches and I am not sure what that is. I got headaches before I quit and went through all kinds of diagnostics and was told it was an atypical migrain headache. I have no different symptoms and no wish to go through the whole diagnostics again, so I get headaches. I am coming back down in weight from the little vacation and the continuous days of celebrating turning 50. The pounds are coming off with more ease that at the beginning of the quit. I also know what to do in the pool to get myself feeling like I have really given the workout a go. My muscles are tighter than they have ever been. I am bettr able to breath that I can ever remember. With regard to all the other health issues I have, and I won't get into them all here, everything seems to be stable. Nothing untoward and nothing that is not in the balance it should be. I am happy I quit because there is even more chance of balancing and not aggravating any other symtomology. By not smoking I ge

Phillip... To see this post on day 366 of your quit. How awesome you are. I am so very, very proud of you and glad to have been a part of your journey. Lady :) [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 7/1/2005 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 598 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 11,968 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $2093 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 54 [B]Hrs:[/B] 0 [B]Mins:[/B] 29 [B]Seconds:[/B] 8

Phillip... I just wanted to say that I love sharing this journey with you. You are one of the best! Lady. [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 7/1/2005 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 493 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 9,868 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $1725.5 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 43 [B]Hrs:[/B] 11 [B]Mins:[/B] 39 [B]Seconds:[/B] 0