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Pamela
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Posted: August 8, 2006 4:10 PM Post subject: I protest! |
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Quitting smoking really does change your life.
After I quit, I started going to town meetings, because I could actually sit through one without having to go out several times to smoke, or sit in agony trying to figure out how much longer the meeting would go on.
After I quit, I started to get more politically active, as I didn't feel like a total loser anymore.
After I quit, I ran for town office. I lost, but I gained the confidence as a non smoker to run in the first place.
After I quit, I have started to care about individual property rights, and have started a grassroots community effort to end restrictive zoning and taxation.
After I quit, I may picket the town if things don't go the way our property rights group wants.
After I quit, I may end up in jail, as a peaceful protester, another slave to civil disobedience.
That's OK....at least I won't be jonesing for a smoke.
Boy, quitting smoking really can change your life!
Here I am with my friends, putting my deoderant to the test! _________________
FIVE + years of freedom and loving it! |
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alleghany
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Posted: August 8, 2006 5:15 PM Post subject: |
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That is so cool! You could get a prison tattoo with the "no smoking" symbol, too!
Congrats on the involvement!!! _________________
Face your fears.
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kevin Site Admin
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Posted: August 8, 2006 5:32 PM Post subject: |
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
~ Margaret Mead
go for it, pam! _________________
keep choosing life!
kevin
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shevie
Quit Date: May 23, 2005
Posts: 413 Location: Grants Pass, OR, USA
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Posted: August 8, 2006 5:35 PM Post subject: |
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That's great, Pamela. What a way to channel all the excess time, energy, and emotions of the smoke-free you.
Sic 'em.
Shevie _________________
If you study something in the right light, how can there be any darkness? Dave Gardner
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Lori
Quit Date: March 18, 2006
Posts: 521 Location: Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted: August 8, 2006 7:44 PM Post subject: |
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Our resident radical -- I love it! You go Pam!
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Free
Quit Date: May 12, 2006
Posts: 826 Location: USA
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Posted: August 8, 2006 11:09 PM Post subject: |
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Pam ... I've one very important thing to say to you ...
YOU ROCK!!! _________________
Become addicted to constant and never ending self improvement.
The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. |
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marw
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Posted: August 8, 2006 11:36 PM Post subject: |
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That's terrific, Pam. You are an inspiration in more than quitting smoking. Of course that is the most important one! I hope I have your courage, and can begin to show Art work, which I have been invited to do, but never seem to find the courage to do!
Thanks for this letter.
BTW: I think the environment is the most important thing we have!! I am very worried about it, and we need political people who will help us to straighten this out! (I probably deviated from your topic but I had to say this!) _________________
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swaneem
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Posted: August 9, 2006 12:35 AM Post subject: |
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YOU GO GIRL!!!!!!! RAH... RAH..... RAH!
THERE"S NOTHING BETTER TO GET ONE'S BLOOD FLOWING THAN BY SHAKING UP THE ESTABLISHMENT!!!!
Donna _________________
Just when the caterpillar thought his world was
coming to an end..........God made him a
BUTTERFLY. |
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Carla
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Posted: August 9, 2006 7:54 AM Post subject: Re: I protest! |
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[quote="Pamela"]Quitting smoking really does change your life.
After I quit, I ran for town office. I lost, but I gained the confidence as a non smoker to run in the first place.
I would have voted for you, Pam! _________________
Carla
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Zuzu
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Posted: August 15, 2006 5:56 PM Post subject: |
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Pam-
Before I quit smoking I was (and still am) politically active. I was arrested several times for civil disobedience (or as one of the police detectives I work with corrected me, "criminal disobedience.")
A very poignant memory for me was once when I was truly unlawfully arrested and detained for 72 hours. (In this particular instance I actually wasn't even protesting, had nothing to do with a protest, wasn't even near any kind of civil or criminal "action" - but rather the victim of a wholly egregious police sweep.. long story for another time.) As I sat in Santa Rita county jail, going absolutely batty through nicotine withdrawal, I couldn't for the life of me deliberate on how henious and wrong the police were for arresting me. In that moment, the only "liberty" I was upset about losing was my "freedom" to smoke.
Funny that, isn't it? Freedom to smoke.. heh. Yeah, right.
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Barbara K.
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Posted: August 15, 2006 7:28 PM Post subject: |
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Pam,
You go girl! I admire you.
You're an inspiration.
Blessings, _________________
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn arouind and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Blessings,
Barbara K. |
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N2k
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Posted: August 23, 2006 2:00 AM Post subject: I'll Vote for that |
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I was just talking about the importance of voting today. (We had a primary run-off election today in my county for district attorney, county commissioner and tax assessor.) I just got home from a 'watch party'
I love politics. I applaud you for getting involved and dig that shot of 'you' in the picture.
All the best/Peace out
N2k _________________
All the best~
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I killed the Nicodemon and got off scot-free!
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Lady
Quit Date: July 1, 2005
Posts: 378 Location: Georgia
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Posted: August 28, 2006 10:39 PM Post subject: |
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Quitting really changed my life too. I am not the same person anymore. I'm not even interested in the same stuff I use to be. It is amazing. I didn't realize how much quitting would change my life. You are so right. It is all change for the better. Thank God we are free of the enslavement of smoking! _________________
I cannot change the past, but the future is waiting for me. |
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Pamela
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Posts: 3542 Location: Gardiner, NY
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Posted: August 30, 2006 11:30 AM Post subject: |
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Hi all. Yes, Zuzu, that was a crazy notion about the "freedom to smoke". I used to get all bent out of shape about "smokers rights"...."I have the right to kill myself if I want to"!
The crazy thing is, one of the things that used to terrify me the most was the thought of NOT BEING ABLE TO SMOKE..but still being addicted. Like you beind bars...that was my idea of torture! Mostly, I pictured myself as old (well, older) and feeble, maybe in a wheelchair, and not being allowed to smoke!
Well, those days are over....now I just have to worry that they won't bring me my CAKE! _________________
FIVE + years of freedom and loving it! |
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kevin Site Admin
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Posted: August 30, 2006 5:15 PM Post subject: |
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yeah! bring on the cake! _________________
keep choosing life!
kevin
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