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Dana Rae
Quit Date: January 22, 2005
Posts: 201 Location: Palatka, Florida
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Posted: February 6, 2005 4:46 PM Post subject: The untold story |
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This has been around thought I would send it here too!!
Timetable of physiological change
--- The Untold Story ---
(What the quit literature doesn't tell you.)
20 minutes after quitting.
You begin looking for loopholes in your quit commitment, thinking about postponing the whole arrangement until after the next millenium begins.
After 8 hours.
You have already contemplated at least three murders and several other brutal acts of violence.
After 24 Hours.
Your city or town declares a mysterious and unforeseen water shortage, while municipal sewers are suddenly overwhelmed.
After one week.
You have consumed enough calories to sustain a Bengali village of 2000 for four years. Food shortages become critical within your region; pets and local wild animals become nervous.
After two weeks.
Quitzits establish early outposts on your face. Risk of Browser's Butt Syndrome (BBS) rises to equal that for 13-year-old boys with new computers and internet access. Smileys appear in your writing and begin to replicate
Within one month.
You have already begun to pester smokers and complain about the smell of their obnoxious cigarettes; IQ returns to low double-digits; Quitzits begin to function autonomously. Exclamation point shortages prevail across the land.
After six weeks
You may have experienced your first bowel movement since your quit began; if not, be patient, it will happen within a few more weeks.
After two months.
You begin to forget the pain and misery of the first week without cigarettes, and are wondering if you could, perhaps, remind yourself of what you've been missing; Quitzits establish territorial treaties with each other.
After five months.
Intelligence returns to at least 60% of its pre-quit level; concentration remains a problem, at only 50%; carpal tunnel syndrome incidence exceeds all known levels for any keyboard-intensive occupation; you have typed more words than are contained within all the works of William Shakespeare, but with more flair and "sparkle".
After six months.
You wonder why you ever waited this long to quit. It's way, way, worth it.
I have been quit for 2 Weeks, 1 Day, 8 hours, 9 minutes and 32 seconds (15 days). I have saved $49.08 by not smoking 613 cigarettes. I have saved 2 Days, 3 hours and 5 minutes of my life. My Quit Date: 1/22/05 |
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Pamela
Quit Date: -
Posts: 3542 Location: Gardiner, NY
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Posted: February 6, 2005 6:11 PM Post subject: |
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FIVE + years of freedom and loving it! |
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dd200443
Quit Date: December 6, 2004
Posts: 26 Location: Iowa
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Posted: February 6, 2005 6:29 PM Post subject: |
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OMG Dana, this is toooooooo funny!!!!
I really can relate so some of these too............so thats what you call them......Quitzits......LOL
Thanks for the pick me up!!!!!!
DD |
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kannprint
Quit Date: April 10, 2004
Posts: 4988 Location: St. Louis, MO
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Posted: February 6, 2005 6:54 PM Post subject: |
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Funny but very true. You're extremely clever. _________________
LIVE WELL, LAUGH OFTEN, LOVE MUCH.
Jo |
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mtwilsonranch
Quit Date: January 20, 2006
Posts: 1863 Location: nevada
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Posted: February 6, 2005 9:18 PM Post subject: |
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Dana,
Thank you for the smile, I sure like the quitzits
Pam
1 month, 2 weeks, 2 days, 11 hrs., 18 min free of nicotine and feeling GREAT _________________
Right Now, this minute, this hour, this day, I choose not to feed my addiction.... |
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kjsblue
Quit Date: -
Posts: 756 Location: Nebraska
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Posted: February 7, 2005 10:32 AM Post subject: |
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I LOVE THIS!! Thanks for posting it! I need to print it
Kris
Five months, four weeks, two days, 7 hours, 58 minutes and 51 seconds. 3666 cigarettes not smoked, saving $733.49. Life saved: 1 week, 5 days, 17 hours, 30 minutes. _________________
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it -- William Arthur Ward
Q.D. August 8th, 2004 |
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Fightn4life
Quit Date: October 23, 2003
Posts: 1573 Location: Loysburg, PA
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Posted: February 7, 2005 9:34 PM Post subject: |
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Awesome, what insight...I loved this. oh..I will not be showing it to smoking hubby he'll have that many more reasons NOT to quit. Lord knows he has enough.
Sandyz
free for 474 days! _________________
"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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Cowgirl UP!
Quit Date: July 26, 2004
Posts: 5029 Location: Ala
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Posted: February 7, 2005 10:06 PM Post subject: |
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how true
Kay _________________
All with a little help from my friends, COWGIRL UP |
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2BFree
Quit Date: October 3, 2005
Posts: 51 Location: Ontario, Canada
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Posted: March 4, 2005 9:26 AM Post subject: |
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That's a Gooder!!! Only it didn't take a week to consume those calories
Freedom Rocks!!
Colleen _________________
One day at a time!! |
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kevin Site Admin
Quit Date: -
Posts: 9538 Location: cincinnati, oh
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Posted: March 4, 2005 10:43 AM Post subject: |
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keep choosing life!
kevin
the zen of the quit |
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Seabrez
Quit Date: -
Posts: 4458 Location: Gulf Coast
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Posted: March 4, 2005 11:02 AM Post subject: |
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Dana,
LOL ...oh yeah,....I can attest to the diminished mental capacity!!!! This one is print and keep. Cracking me up...just what was needed this morning a good laugh!
Thanks for reposting it!!!!
Smiles _________________
Living in Freedom
Deb
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. 2 Corn 5:17 NASB |
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Deb
Quit Date: February 5, 2010
Posts: 967 Location: North Carolina (Originally New York)
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Posted: March 5, 2005 11:38 AM Post subject: |
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Donna,
Thank's for sharing that my it's so true.
Have a great quit!
Deb |
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