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Jelli
Quit Date: May 30, 2004
Posts: 157 Location: Murphysboro, Illinois
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Posted: May 29, 2004 6:04 PM Post subject: Reasons I am Quitting- Please Add with your own reasons!!! |
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REASONS I AM QUITTING SMOKING
I Don’t Want My Life to be Controlled by Cigarettes
I Don’t Want to be Smoking through a Tracheotomy Hole one Day
I Don’t Want Heart Disease, Emphysema, Cancer or a Stroke
I Don’t Want to Make Brie, Story, Jellizuba, Marley or Vegas Fred Sick
I Don’t Want to Smell Bad Anymore
I Don’t Want the House or Car to Stink
I Don’t Want Yellow Teeth or Wrinkles
I Don’t Want to Waste Money Anymore
I Don't Want my Mother to be Worried about me anymore
I Want to Have a Baby
I Want to Feel Healthier
I Want to Handle Stress in Healthy Ways
I Want my Life Back
I Am Too Smart to continue being a Fool
I Want to Enjoy Life More and I Can't Keep Pretending Cigarettes Aren't in the Way |
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kevin Site Admin
Quit Date: -
Posts: 9538 Location: cincinnati, oh
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Posted: May 29, 2004 6:23 PM Post subject: |
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welcome to woofmang, Jelli - that's a great list of reasons you've got going there - and you'll have a lot of people rooting for you tomorrow as you step into day one of your new life!
you can do this too! _________________
keep choosing life!
kevin
the zen of the quit |
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bjj
Quit Date: April 7, 2004
Posts: 1056 Location: Ohio
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Posted: May 29, 2004 10:35 PM Post subject: |
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Hi Cathy,
Here are a few more:
No more cigarette burns in clothes, carpet, etc.
Will not need to carry oxygen with me.
No more cigarette cough.
Voice does not sound like a foghorn.
No more SOB on mild exertion.
There are many more and I am sure others will add to the list.
One month, three weeks, one day, 17 hours, 34 minutes and 16 seconds. 2109 cigarettes not smoked, saving $210.93. Life saved: 1 week, 7 hours, 45 minutes. _________________
Bonnie
"Always think of what you have to do as easy and it will become so".
Emile Coue |
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Carol
Quit Date: December 9, 2009
Posts: 631 Location: Wisconsin
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Posted: May 29, 2004 11:13 PM Post subject: |
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I don't want to be a social outcast
I won't have that horrible yellowish stain on everything in the house.
I won't accumulate more wrinkles than my age should
I will live to enjoy my granchildren
The possibilty that I will grow old with my husband increases greatly.
I can have guests into my home without being worried about the smell. _________________
WALK TALL WALK PROUD
CAROL |
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Jelli
Quit Date: May 30, 2004
Posts: 157 Location: Murphysboro, Illinois
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Posted: May 30, 2004 1:30 PM Post subject: |
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I thought of another one-
I Won't have to sit in the stinky, awful, smoker's aquarium at the airport anymore |
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Fightn4life
Quit Date: October 23, 2003
Posts: 1573 Location: Loysburg, PA
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Posted: June 2, 2004 9:39 AM Post subject: One reason |
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I chose life.
Sandyz
Seven months, one week, two days, 15 hours, 37 minutes and 40 seconds. 10019 cigarettes not smoked, saving $1,502.89. Life saved: 4 weeks, 6 days, 18 hours, 55 minutes.
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"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."
~Anonymous |
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Leona
Quit Date: June 1, 2017
Posts: 1838 Location: Alpena, Michigan
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Posted: June 2, 2004 9:55 AM Post subject: |
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I don't want to smell like my son (who smells like an ashtray)
I don't want emphasyma (2 of my family members died from this disease and another one has it)
I want tobe able to sing walk and talk without coughing my lungs out.
I want to live to see anther day year month century
I want tomake my grandmother proud of me
I want my animals to come to me without the here kitties
I don't want to be chained to my ashtray lighter and cigarettes.
I am going to be married July 20 and don't want to carry the habit to the marriage with me.'
I want to make my daughter proud of her mom for not smoking. (and she is )
One month, three weeks, 22 hours, 56 minutes and 5 seconds. 2078 cigarettes not smoked, saving $358.49. Life saved: 1 week, 5 hours, 10 minutes. _________________
Quiting smoking is like a fine wine ......
It just gets better with age. |
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ajc3436
Quit Date: November 30, 2003
Posts: 66 Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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Posted: June 2, 2004 9:57 AM Post subject: |
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Hi Cathy,
I just had a new grandson that I want to see grow up.
Smoking is to dam inconvient when one must stand out in the cold to do it.
Just a couple of mine that aren't listed already.
Welcome!
Audrey |
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EBRBETTY
Quit Date: May 29, 2004
Posts: 16 Location: mass
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Posted: June 2, 2004 10:15 AM Post subject: |
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I have a cronic illness, I want to feel at least a little better.
I want to spend the money on something for me, 5 bucks a pack is crazy
I want to be able to breath better when I workout and lift weights |
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jennifer32327
Quit Date: November 23, 2004
Posts: 456 Location: Florida
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Posted: June 2, 2004 10:54 AM Post subject: |
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Myself, my health
My Beautiful Daughter Victoria
My Fiancee
I won't stink have bad breath and my life will not revolve around smoking
I can breath easier, run a mile, hike without being out of breath.
I won't be a social outcast.
FREEDOM!!!! _________________
Jennifer,
Keep your heart open to dreams for
as long as there is dream there is hope
and as long as there is hope
there is joy in living! |
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Angel
Quit Date: November 11, 2004
Posts: 208 Location: MI
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Posted: June 3, 2004 1:59 PM Post subject: |
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I want to lessen the chances of catching my kids smoking behind the shed
I want to floss my teeth without tasting smoke on my fingers
I want to be there for my husband when he's ready to quit
I want to invite people to my house without worrying about the smell
I want to own the extra two hours a day I used to spend smoking
I don't ever want a face full of ash from it blowing back in the truck window |
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Leona
Quit Date: June 1, 2017
Posts: 1838 Location: Alpena, Michigan
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Posted: June 3, 2004 10:01 PM Post subject: |
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Jelli,
I will give you another really good reason to never go back to smoking and it comes with a small story.
I have a friend who is big and strong and she protected me in high school because the kids all picked on me one of the reason's I started smoking to be accepted and ok we lost touch after school she went her way and I went mine I have seen her from time to time in differnet places around our area. She has remained here for a long time. WEll today my fiancee and I went to a tool sale in the next town. As I was getting ready to leave with my fiancee I saw my friend and naturally I went over to say hi. That is when I noticed she was walking slower and was no where near as big as she use to be and by big I mean muscular. Anyway I didn't say anything about this but did say hi and then it took her a few minutes but she said hi back and explained things were difficult for her right now because she was on Kemotherapy because she had cancer. She use to smoke like a chimmeny I guess we all did in those days. But she said she had quit January of this year when she found out she had "Cancer" I told her I had quit almost 2 months ago now.
I could not beleieve how fast and far she had gone downhill and how little she could function. She says she is getting better and I did not ask what kind of cancer as this was a shock to me. She was a friend I would of given up my life for and she me. That was many years ago but I still admire and respect her so very much. But I am sure as you know smoking causes cancer and has 43 different cancer causing agents in it. I am sure my friend has cancer from smoking and this is a reason to remain and get quit.
One month, three weeks, two days, 11 hours, 1 minute and 45 seconds. 2138 cigarettes not smoked, saving $368.87. Life saved: 1 week, 10 hours, 10 minutes. _________________
Quiting smoking is like a fine wine ......
It just gets better with age. |
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mikegeorge
Quit Date: May 30, 2004
Posts: 45
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Posted: June 4, 2004 5:58 AM Post subject: |
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I want to save some money (cigs are $US8-10 a pack here in Australia).
I don't want to feel withdrawals everytime I'm in some situation when I can't smoke.
I don't want an addiction that only lines the pockets of people who don't care if I live or die.
I'm scared of leaving my wife and children without a father.
I'm scared of dying a painful death.
When my wife complains that I eat too much ice-cream or chocolate I want to be able to say 'well, atleast I don't smoke' |
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