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Tman55

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4,062 Days Quit

Let’s make today a cig free one! Pball wins over yard work again. Better get ready😁

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Cig free Hump Day, Pball, wings n beer kinda day!! 33 pounds of fish in the freezer.

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Cig free Tuesday! Home today. Great day yesterday. Bringing home fish!!

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Cig free Monday! Fishing was good. More today!

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It’s a cig free TGIF kinda day. Off to pball then Calgary. Early flight in the morning! Salmon fishing!!

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Cig free Thursday folks! Better knock more projects off the yard work list.

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It’s a cig free Hump Day folks! All my grass cut yesterday so today it’s a dump run, groceries, pball and wings n beers.

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Cig free Tuesday folks! Better cut some grass today!

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Let’s have a cig free day to kick off another week. Off to pball.

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Cig free Sunday! Long day of pball yesterday but much fun. It’s a more yard work kinda day. Cig free is where it’s at. Join me?

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It’s a cig free, pball, TGIF kinda day. Will play this morning then more yard work this afternoon. Slowly getting there.

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Cig free Thursday all!! Join me??

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Tuesday Smile

Repost:  Smoking Cessation Time Line

Some positives to look forward to!

KTQ
Cara
D7006

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Smoking cessation timeline – the health benefits over time

¦ In 20 minutes, your blood pressure and pulse rate decrease, and the body temperature of your hands and feet increase.

¦ Carbon monoxide in cigarette smoke reduces the blood’s ability to carry oxygen. At 8 hours, the carbon monoxide level in your blood decreases to normal. With the decrease in carbon monoxide, your blood oxygen level increases to normal.

¦ At 24 hours, your risk of having a heart attack decreases.

¦ At 48 hours, nerve endings start to regrow and the ability to smell and taste is enhanced.

¦ Between 2 weeks and 3 months, your circulation improves, walking becomes easier and you don’t cough or wheeze as often. Phlegm production decreases. Within several months, you have significant improvement in lung function.

¦ In 1 to 9 months, coughs, sinus congestion, fatigue and shortness of breath decrease as you continue to see significant improvement in lung function. Cilia, tiny hair-like structures that move mucus out of the lungs, regain normal function.

¦ In 1 year, risk of coronary heart disease and heart attack is reduced to half that of a smoker.

¦ Between 5 and 15 years after quitting, your risk of having a stroke returns to that of a non-smoker.

¦ In 10 years, your risk of lung cancer drops. Additionally, your risk of cancer of the mouth, throat, esophagus, bladder, kidney and pancreas decrease. Even after a decade of not smoking however, your risk of lung cancer remains higher than in people who have never smoked. Your risk of ulcer also decreases.

¦ In 15 years, your risk of coronary heart disease and heart attack in similar to that of people who have never smoked. The risk of death returns to nearly the level of a non-smoker.

Repost: Smoking Cessation Time Line

Some positives to look forward to!

KTQ
Cara
D7006

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Smoking cessation timeline – the health benefits over time

¦ In 20 minutes, your blood pressure and pulse rate decrease, and the body temperature of your hands and feet increase.

¦ Carbon monoxide in cigarette smoke reduces the blood’s ability to carry oxygen. At 8... Show more

Good morning all
Happy Tuesday!!!!

Last confirmed pledge till June 18 which is when I hope to be in Newfoundland with a computer. I am still at work all week but had to cut my cable tomorrow or pay for a whole month - decided to pass. Got a hotel here starting next Tuesday and on the road May 31. Will try and check in to pledge from the road but even when I am not here you know I will not be smoking period. I be driving on the Freedom Road kicking ash as I go. Keep things going here my fellow... Show more

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Thought for today

Monday Smile

Repost:  When does it get better?

This is so very true.  We have to quit - we have to let the smoke screen clear and then we can finally see the lies our addiction had been telling us to keep us enslaved.  I remember crying for the loss of my 25 best friends.  I journaled about how much I missed them.  Folks - your friends do not try to kill you - keep that in mind and do not shed a single tear for them as they do not care about you.
Quitting is challenging but the freedom you gain  - soooo worth the effort.
KTQ
Cara
D7005

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when does it get better
From awojo on 1/17/2012 2:19:27 PM
I asked this question here at the Q at a point in time when I was really, really struggling in my quit. I want to share with you one of the answers I received, because I printed these words out and put them up in my office:

When will this pass is a question asked many times here on the Q. I cannot give you an exact date but I can tell you this.

It will pass when you finally and completely let go of the idea that you are missing something by not smoking.

It ends when you come to the realisation that there is no way that sucking noxious poison fumes into your body will make your life better in any way.

It gets better when you accept that your life is really better without cigarettes and decide to live life, with all its ups and downs, without a chemical crutch.

Do this and I promise it will get better.

KTQ
Dan
548 days, 23 hours, 18 minutes and 35 seconds smoke free. 16469 cigarettes not smoked. $5,352.75 and 4 months, 5 days, 19 hours of my life saved! My quit date: 5/2/2010 11:59:59 AM

I hope Dan's words hit home for you the way they did for me. It was the reality check I needed at a critical time when I was fed up with my quit.

And you know what....Dan was right. I changed my mind about what I thought I was "missing", and it got BETTER. And now here I am, with over 100 days smoke free and it is better!

It's worth it. KTQ.

Adele

102 days, 14 hours, 7 minutes and 21 seconds smoke free. 1847 cigarettes not smoked. $881.28 and 14 days, 2 hours of my life saved! My quit date: 10/7/2011

(Thank you again, Dan, for the reality check!)

Repost: When does it get better?

This is so very true. We have to quit - we have to let the smoke screen clear and then we can finally see the lies our addiction had been telling us to keep us enslaved. I remember crying for the loss of my 25 best friends. I journaled about how much I missed them. Folks - your friends do not try to kill you - keep that in mind and do not shed a single tear for them as they do not care about you.
Quitting is challenging but the freedom you gain - soooo worth... Show more

Good morning all - sorry about your Leafs Tman
Happy Monday !!!!!
Up and going for the day today. Going to work on packing - our dishwasher sucks here so I have a sink of dishes to do. Laundry to be done once I have hauled all the garbage out. Saying NO to smoking today and keeping to my path along the Freedom Road. My hand is offered to the next winning quitter joining me today.
Have a good one
Cara
D7005

4Y 0M
Life Saved
$104,024
Money Saved
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