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Kerry
Quit Date: May 4, 2004
Posts: 862 Location: Illinois
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Posted: August 1, 2004 7:40 PM Post subject: ANOTHER MILESTONE |
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Hi all! I just returned from vacation and am happy to say that I've completed another milestone. I took my first smokeless vacation and did it suck? Well, kind of. I wasn't miserable and had a great time but on a few occaisions I sure felt like something was missing and I knew exactly what it was. I also knew that I would get thru it but I have to admit that I was sure jealous of my husband who is having such an easy time with his quit. I guess this is just part of life beyond the smokescreen. I wasn't sad all week, I wasn't angry all week, I guess I was just stunned. I'm still surprised when this has such a mental effect on me because I really don't have nic fits anymore. I have to say that I did notice how much better I am physically. We went to a wave pool (my passion) and I spent hours in that pool. The smoking section was right across from the pool and while I thought that a smoke "sounded good" I realized that I wouldn't have had the stamina to spend so much time exercising in the pool. I also had to laugh because our vacation was in The Lake of the Ozarks and I had no idea how hilly it was there. If I were still a smoker, I think they would have had to air lift me back to Chicago Anyway, all in all it was a good time and I still need to keep crossing these milestones. As long as I know that someday this will go away, I will be waiting with raised fists to battle the next one Thanks for listening. Kerry |
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kevin Site Admin
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Posted: August 1, 2004 7:57 PM Post subject: |
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you were actually able to have fun and relax without poisoning yourself and polluting your environment multiple times every day?
what a concept!
thanks for sharing the good news, Kerry - it helps us all realize that there really is life beyond the smokescreen.
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keep choosing life!
kevin
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Mindy
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Posted: August 1, 2004 8:27 PM Post subject: |
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Way to go Kerry! You should be so proud of yourself and your hubby! |
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essie662
Quit Date: April 14, 2004
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Posted: August 1, 2004 9:09 PM Post subject: |
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Great going, Kerry _________________
Essie
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Fightn4life
Quit Date: October 23, 2003
Posts: 1573 Location: Loysburg, PA
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Posted: August 1, 2004 10:38 PM Post subject: Welcome home... |
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Wow Kerry, your vaction sounded wonderful. Of course you were in our neck of the woods...Lake of the Ozarks. I live in the Ozark mountains in Ark.
I never thought about it before but maybe I had more problems smoke/ breathing here than PA because we are so high. Although I lived in a mountaion area of PA.
I am so glad your vacation was smoke free one and you enjoyed your time.
Good to have you back and still smoke free. Free proud, this is a wonderful milestone.
Sandy
9 months breathing free _________________
"Keep your heart open to dreams. For as long as there's a dream, there is hope, and as long as there is hope, there is joy in living."
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ms_tapestry
Quit Date: October 21, 2009
Posts: 2574 Location: Seminole, TX
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Posted: August 2, 2004 5:02 AM Post subject: |
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Congrats on your smoke free vacation. It was great to read such a happy post this morning. Thanks! _________________
Tonya
You must do the very thing you think you cannot do.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt |
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kannprint
Quit Date: April 10, 2004
Posts: 4988 Location: St. Louis, MO
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Posted: August 2, 2004 12:17 PM Post subject: |
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Dear Kerry,
FANTASTIC!! You're to be commended on keeping that quit alive and well. Glad you had such a nice vacation. _________________
LIVE WELL, LAUGH OFTEN, LOVE MUCH.
Jo |
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ajc3436
Quit Date: November 30, 2003
Posts: 66 Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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Posted: August 2, 2004 3:06 PM Post subject: |
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Kerry,
That is wonderful. Just goes to show you that you can do a vacation without somking just as well as you could when you smoked. Same as you can still drive a car, read a book, talk on the phone, and all the other things that are smoke triggers. Soon the cigs will be less and less on your mind.
Audrey |
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