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Just FYI - it has been one year (yesterday) since I last smoked a cigarette. I can still remember the taste. But I can breathe much better now, and I think those extra 30 pounds look good on me.

I just came from the "Life Force" folks - our company's wellness program. 5' 10", 276 lbs, 19.1 % body fat, 140/80 blood pressure, 72 resting pulse. She had me on the treadmill for twenty minutes, could not make my pulse raise. Pronounced me 'fit' (and I know it), but said she never saw anyone so obviously overweight in such good physical condition. Hehehehe. Clean living, my droogies.

I'll be drinking the beer tonight!

No cigarettes, though.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
 
Congrats Bill, stick at it!

I have been off the fags for five years now (I stopped May 10th 2000). I still get the occasional craving.
I still consider myself a smoker, it was easier to stop by thinking 'I haven't given up, I just don't want one...', I kept thinking that for the last five years.

It worked for me.
 
Glad to hear everything looks good. It's been 12 years for me now since I took so much as a drag. I walk past the door to my office building and almost gag when I get a whiff of the smoke. But once I get a few drinks in me, somehow that aversion disappears... I've got a buddy who still smokes, and when we're sitting on the patio knockin' em back, man it sure is tempting.
But I don't give in. I know if I smoked one, I'd smoke twenty. Actually, I wouldn't live long enough to go through that pack. My wife would kill me first.
 
Joe and Bill,
Congrats to you both!!!
I quit 8 years ago when I met my present wife, she wouldn't date a smoker (Hoorah for her). It was the most difficult thing I'd ever done, but well worth the extra 25 pounds I've added. 😀
 
Congrats, Bill!!!! 😀

Sounds like you need to reward yourself by buying a new camera!! I saw that Peace Camera had a Paxette for sale. 😉
 
captainslack said:
Congrats, Bill!!!! 😀

Sounds like you need to reward yourself by buying a new camera!! I saw that Peace Camera had a Paxette for sale. 😉
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Believe me, my friend - I'm rewarded, I'm rewarded! I think I 'pre-rewarded' myself!

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
 
Congratulations from someone who has nothing but admiration for your will power and wishes he had as much. I think you have to be or have been a smoker to appreciate what a powerful addiction it is, -- actually tougher to lick than heroin, according to something I read.
Atta Boy!
 
Congrats! I'm missing the willpower, too :-(
Even with nicotin chewing gum, now way! At the moment I'm forcing myself to smoke pipe and only pipe and don't smoke at my non-smoking friends and I'm pretty proud that I can fly 11 hours without to much trembling 🙂
 
Thanks Bill, everything helps. With me it's both, a neurosis and adiction. My doctor told me that I need retraining to get away from the cigarets, then I can get away from my nicotin adiction.
So he gave me some goals I have to achieve, the first was don't smoke in the office, don't smoke while walking and do a lot of walking 🙂. The next task is not to smoke cigarets in pubs.
 
I found it remarkably easy to quit back in 1980 when I came down with pneumonia. It won't even describe what happened then. It immediately convinced me that I needed to stop smoking. This was after a pack a day habit for 3 years.

I shouldn't have started in the first place, I have asthma.

I hope no one here has the same experience. It was like something out of a Stephen King story. "The Stand" comes to mind.

More power to those who sweat-it-out and end their relationship with old "King Tobacco."
 
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Kiev4a summed this one up better than me on this one and my congratulations also!! I keep trying to kick the habbit, but too weak willed at the moment and keep re-offending 🙁
 
Congrats on the smokelessness. Good to hear that you are monitoring your health too.

I have been going through a little issue personally, so it is always good to point out that regular checkups are just as important as having the oil changed in your car. 🙂
 
Congratulations Bill. Now you want to get that BP down to 130/80. Smaller portions of the same things ought to do it over a year or so. At least that is what my doctor tells me. He says you will get used to smaller portions in a week or so. Now how does one put up with being hungry for a week or longer? Whatever you do don't start smoking again.
Kurt M.
 
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