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PENITENT?S 6 YEAR ANNIVERSARY TUESDAY!!!!!!

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A huge congratulations for six years of freedom!!!!! What a wonderful milestone. You are a wonderful encouragement here at SSC.

All the best,

Jan

My Mileage:

My Quit Date: 1/27/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 843
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 21,075
Amount Saved: $6,954.75
Life Gained:
Days: 98 Hrs: 22 Mins: 16 Seconds: 19

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Hi Pen, Congrats, and thank you for sharing... I returned and I am so delighted to see so many still here. This is a new quit, I have learned some things from previous attempts. It is encouraging to me to have such wisdom and help here.

hugs,

Bonnie

My Mileage:

My Quit Date: 5/7/2010
Smoke-Free Days: 12
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 204
Amount Saved: $40.80
Life Gained:
Days: 1 Hrs: 15 Mins: 26 Seconds: 12

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Hey Pen!!!

Happy belated Anniversary!!! I hope you rewarded yourself well yesterday and continue the celebration for another few days... I would, and will! I did a little toast to you with my first beer last night, too!

Your posts, starting a little over 800 days ago, had a profound impact on my quit and I just wanted to say thanks for being here when I needed you! I'm know there are a bunch of others here who feel the same!

Jim

My Mileage:

My Quit Date: 3/5/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 805
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 20,125
Amount Saved: $3,320.63
Life Gained:
Days: 138 Hrs: 15 Mins: 36 Seconds: 59

Quit Meter

$45,825.00

Amount Saved
Quit Meter

Days: 1096 Hours: 17

Minutes: 9 Seconds: 46

Life Gained
Quit Meter

6110

Smoke Free Days
Quit Meter

183,300

Cigarettes Not Smoked

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Hi Penitent,

Wow, what an amazing, insightful post! Well said! With 6 years under your belt you are still willing to help others achieve victory in this battle. I commend you for this! Thank you for sharing your tips and advice to newer quitters!

Samantha, Health Educator

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Thanks for the mention Penitent! I am glad to hear that it will get easier... :)

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Surely this party is still going on...it must be at least a 24 hour one...if not the whole week.

It's funny Pen, when I first started here, I had the exact same feeling about talking to Leslie, Lin, Tresa, Anne-Marie who were all well in front of me. Even now these names are special as the people who led me through the difficult times. And then there are the contemparies...too many to mention, but I am still in contact with a number of them. And then the "just behind me" crowd which would include you and Luna. Look how far we have come! I think this site started in around 2001, it's amazing to think of how many people have quit here since then.

Great advice Pen, as always.

Many many congratulations on your fabulous milestone. Same time next year?

Lizzie

My Mileage:

My Quit Date: 4/23/2003
Smoke-Free Days: 2583
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 38,745
Amount Saved: �9,686.25
Life Gained:
Days: 281 Hrs: 19 Mins: 47 Seconds: 19

Quit Meter

$9,165.00

Amount Saved
Quit Meter

Days: 810 Hours: 20

Minutes: 11 Seconds: 46

Life Gained
Quit Meter

6110

Smoke Free Days
Quit Meter

36,660

Cigarettes Not Smoked

for 14 år siden 0 +0 / -0 2534

Where to start? Well let's try the end and let's call the end today. Smoking? What's that? No craves (they died out long ago) and no triggers either. After 6 years, my brain has finally been completely rewired; it no longer connects certain situations to the need to automatically reach for the pack and light up - nor does it recognise the anticipated thrill that accompanies that trigger. Having gone round the sun 6 times, the brain has had plenty of time to adjust and I'm grateful that it has. I am no longer an ex-smoker, I am now a non-smoker!

I've hung around, warts and all. I've been contentious here. I've ruffled a few feathers in my time and I make no apology for that. This quitting lark is tough; it affects the psyche and it takes effort to succeed. Yes, it is a matter of life or death. My quit always came first. After that, there was room for others. Some others more than other others! When I was in the lifeboat I always tried to help pull on board those who were actively trying to climb in for themselves not those who seemed hell-bent on making their transition to safety as hard as possible for everyone concerned. Time is precious and saving six while losing one in the process was always acceptable to me. Still is. I've quit and I've helped plenty to quit and that makes me happy. In more recent times, I have vacated the lifeboat in favour of a whole new set of admirable crusaders; I commend them and hope that you can forgive my absence.

Advice to the new quitters Rock asks.

a) You will only succeed if your desire to quit smoking is greater than your desire to smoke. I've seen quitters here with many days under their belt who still want to smoke and let everyone here know that. With that mindset I believe that they will eventually return to smoking; with that mindset, so will you.

b) Keep trying. If you fall, get up and get going again. The sooner the better. This is not my first quit. I fell many times but every failed attempt prepared me for my final quit. I didn't know at the start that this was my final quit and neither will you.

c) Set simple target dates and reward yourself when you reach them. An hour, a day, 48 hours, 3 days, a week, 10 days, 20 days, a month, 50 days etcetera. Simple rewards or more elaborate ones as important checkpoints are reached. To this day my biggest milestone was ONE YEAR! 6 years on, I still run my excel spreadsheet which shows me the smokeless hours that I have amassed since quitting. Today I tick off days worth of hours at a time; in May 2004 each slavish hour earned was rejoiced and ticked as it was completed. What a feeling! Waking each day I could tick off 8 hours in one go! That felt brilliant too! As I type, that total now stands at 52,573 hours without a cigarette. I've got to be happy with that!

d) Getting time in. I've been there. I remember thinking back in May 2004 "Wow! Lizzie's been quit over a year?" That was immense and completely unimaginable for me. It was way over the horizon and far away; I was still kicking and screaming on a daily basis and I am convinced that while seeing off those horrendous early craves in five minute cycles the clock actually stopped on occasions or even went backwards. 12 months? 12 minutes seemed like a lifetime to me. Stick with it, it will get easier. (SerenityNow note!)

e) Find a buddy and share. Preferably someone who quits at the same time as you so that your experiences are similar and you can bounce off each other. It helps not to be alone. It really helps! I was very lucky; I got the best buddy out there!

f) SSC – all the answers are here, both factual and emotional. Trawl the history and there is an answer here to every question that may come to the mind of a new quitter. If you can't find it, just ask and it will be answered.

And so, I set out into year seven with warm and fuzzy memories of my early days here. What fun it was and what fun we had beating an addiction that I thought I would take with me to an early grave. That grave may still be early but at least I have given myself a chance; at this stage of my quit, that's reward enough.

To Luna, Rock, Tresa, steelroots, Todash, nonic, Tabbyh, Kaiser, duffis, Samantha, SerenityNow, Lolly, Karren and Brenda; thank you for your kind words and thank you for sharing this occasion with me.

Best to All,

Penitent

PS Special thanks to The Connecticut Kid!! Dance? x

My Mileage:

My Quit Date: 5/18/2004
Smoke-Free Days: 2192
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 54,800
Amount Saved: �13,700.00
Life Gained:
Days: 377 Hrs: 8 Mins: 32 Seconds: 33

Quit Meter

$59,070.00

Amount Saved
Quit Meter

Days: 1169 Hours: 22

Minutes: 13 Seconds: 47

Life Gained
Quit Meter

5370

Smoke Free Days
Quit Meter

118,140

Cigarettes Not Smoked

for 14 år siden 0 +0 / -0 1904

How awesome! Congrats!
My Mileage:

My Quit Date: 5/1/2009
Smoke-Free Days: 382
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 10,696
Amount Saved: $4,545.80
Life Gained:
Days: 43 Hrs: 1 Mins: 6 Seconds: 55

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Pen, many congratulations on 6 years- wow, now that is some impressive stat! xx
My Mileage:

My Quit Date: 5/10/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 738
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 18,450
Amount Saved: $11,070.00
Life Gained:
Days: 90 Hrs: 2 Mins: 53 Seconds: 7

for 14 år siden 0 +0 / -0 382

Congratulations my Sassenach friend.

You are indeed a star and I continue to follow your example six months behind.

Love Lolly.

My Mileage:

My Quit Date: 11/25/2004
Smoke-Free Days: 2000
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 70,000
Amount Saved: �10,000.00
Life Gained:
Days: 265 Hrs: 11 Mins: 16 Seconds: 31

Quit Meter

$11,496.00

Amount Saved
Quit Meter

Days: 719 Hours: 6

Minutes: 58 Seconds: 53

Life Gained
Quit Meter

5748

Smoke Free Days
Quit Meter

114,960

Cigarettes Not Smoked

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