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Pamela



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PostPosted: August 8, 2006 4:10 PM    Post subject: I protest! Reply with quote

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. Exclamation

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. Mad

After I quit, I may end up in jail, as a peaceful protester, another slave to civil disobedience. Sad

That's OK....at least I won't be jonesing for a smoke.

Boy, quitting smoking really can change your life! Wink



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PostPosted: August 8, 2006 5:15 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

That is so cool! You could get a prison tattoo with the "no smoking" symbol, too! Rolling Eyes Wink

Congrats on the involvement!!! Cool
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PostPosted: August 8, 2006 5:32 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

"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! Smile
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shevie



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PostPosted: August 8, 2006 5:35 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's great, Pamela. What a way to channel all the excess time, energy, and emotions of the smoke-free you.

Sic 'em. Wink

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PostPosted: August 8, 2006 7:44 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

Our resident radical -- I love it! You go Pam!

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PostPosted: August 8, 2006 11:09 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pam ... I've one very important thing to say to you ...

YOU ROCK!!!
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PostPosted: August 8, 2006 11:36 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's terrific, Pam. Very Happy 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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PostPosted: August 9, 2006 12:35 AM    Post subject: Reply with quote

YOU GO GIRL!!!!!!! RAH... RAH..... RAH! Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy

THERE"S NOTHING BETTER TO GET ONE'S BLOOD FLOWING THAN BY SHAKING UP THE ESTABLISHMENT!!!! Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy

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PostPosted: August 9, 2006 7:54 AM    Post subject: Re: I protest! Reply with quote

[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. Exclamation

I would have voted for you, Pam!
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PostPosted: August 15, 2006 5:56 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.

-Zuzu
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PostPosted: August 15, 2006 7:28 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very Happy Pam,

You go girl! I admire you.

Very Happy Very Happy You're an inspiration.

Blessings,
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PostPosted: August 23, 2006 2:00 AM    Post subject: I'll Vote for that Reply with quote

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. Wink

All the best/Peace out
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PostPosted: August 28, 2006 10:39 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

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!
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Pamela



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PostPosted: August 30, 2006 11:30 AM    Post subject: Reply with quote

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!

Rolling Eyes Well, those days are over....now I just have to worry that they won't bring me my CAKE!
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PostPosted: August 30, 2006 5:15 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

yeah! bring on the cake!
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