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Topic: I QUIT  (Read 2262 times)

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surfingdude

  • Salmon
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  • Silence is golden and duck tape is silver
  • Location: Santa Cruz CA
  • Date Registered: Apr 2012
  • Posts: 679
I am on my soap box screaming it LOUD
I quit smoking on 9/11/2007...that is 6 years today without a cig...
I use an online calculator from American lung cancer place, it figures the savings and health benefits....
My currant results..

Time smoke free : 2192 days, 0 hours, 1 minutes, 60 seconds
Cigarettes NOT smoked : 65760.0416667
Lifetime saved : 502.33365162 days
Money saved : $21,372.01


FishingForTheCure

  • "I'm going to make dinner because my colors taste like hungry"
  • Manatee
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  • LOWRANCE & SIMRAD PRO STAFF
  • Location: Aromas
  • Date Registered: Apr 2010
  • Posts: 11327


Weimarian

  • Sea Lion
  • ****
  • F!!! politics. Let's go FISHING
  • Location: Weimar California
  • Date Registered: Mar 2011
  • Posts: 6191
Big congrat's!!!! Way to go (and save $$$$$ !)
my new name should be Ostridge. Got my head in the sand. Going fishing and letting go of the other stuff I can't control anyway!


fishkraft

  • Come to the "light".
  • Sea Lion
  • ****
  • Stealth, Ducati and Lotus, light makes right.
  • Date Registered: Jun 2010
  • Posts: 1989
RIGHT ON! 6 years, wow.  :hello2:
Stealth Kayaks Pro Staff


snowfighter

  • Salmon
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  • Location: Auburn
  • Date Registered: Sep 2012
  • Posts: 225
Jackson Big Tuna
17' mahogany touring kayak that I built


rshu

  • Salmon
  • ***
  • Location: Campbell
  • Date Registered: Jun 2009
  • Posts: 711
Right on!!! Congrats, that's not an easy thing to do!


Danglin

  • Sea Lion
  • ****
  • Accept Yourself, So Shall The World ...
  • Location: West County Sonoma/Baja Sur
  • Date Registered: May 2006
  • Posts: 7739
That's huge Bro!!!

and ConGrats!!!

Of all the drugs I've started and stopped, cigarettes are the hardest, and I did not even enjoy them!!!

still hard to put those suckers down, so congrats to you and yours on a battle well fought,,,
There are 3 Types of people in the world,,,
                          
                 The Sheep, The Sheep Dog & The Wolf,
                                                                         
      Which are You ,,,

2006 NCKA Shark Fishing Tournament Champion    
2nd Moutcha Bay, BC. 2006 "Tyee" Surfing Contest
ELK 07  1st Place Loser
HMB 09 3rd Place
HMB 09 Sardine Champion
2009-2016 Northern California HOW Coordinator

Love Baja…  :smt055


Kayote

  • Sea Lion
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  • Location: Drippin Chicken Water Ranch
  • Date Registered: Mar 2006
  • Posts: 1102
So I'm packing my bags for the Misty Mountains, where the spirits go...........


Chadrock

  • SonomaCoastSafetySquad
  • Sea Lion
  • ****
  • Location: Sonoma County
  • Date Registered: Aug 2008
  • Posts: 3568
Nice dude! Im just ahead of you. 1/1/2007.
If you want to thank a Vet, be a person worth fighting for.

1st place Red Barn Classic 2010


solsrf1

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  • Location: Sacramento
  • Date Registered: Apr 2007
  • Posts: 1574
Way to go Howard, Keep it up!!
 

Big Hammer Pro Staff
Kayak Connection Fishing Team


beerhunter

  • Sea Lion
  • ****
  • Location: Santa Maria
  • Date Registered: Oct 2012
  • Posts: 1400
Congrats man ...... that's definitely something to be proud of..... so what did you buy with the money saved? :smt012


G-Whiz

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  • ****
  • I'm Glen, from the mailroom!
  • Date Registered: Aug 2010
  • Posts: 5036
Awesome!!!!! keep going!!!!

I quit for 5 years, until I started kayaking   :smt009, then picked up that habit again; but I have been smoke free since July 27, 2013..... and still going...... :smt003
The one who dies with the most toys, WINS!



Bungle

  • Salmon
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  • I have no idea what I'm doing
  • Location: San Leandro
  • Date Registered: Apr 2006
  • Posts: 735
Way to effin GO!  Gotta be one of the hardest things to stick with.  Six years tobacco free is awesome.  Keep at it.


trianglelaguna

  • Sea Lion
  • ****
  • put the lotion in the basket
  • Location: Carmel Valley Ca
  • Date Registered: Dec 2013
  • Posts: 4104
way to go...folks like you telling me they put some cig time clean for many years...got me to keep trying to quit my shitty little smoke with coffee in the morning drive in to work deal....3-4 a day or less but still could not quit....finally quit 6 onths or so back and feel greaT!!!!!

keep spreading the good news...people hear and think about it later....i did!!!

thanks for posting
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.”
― Kurt Vonnegut


polepole

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  • Location: San Jose, CA
  • Date Registered: Dec 2004
  • Posts: 13201
Right on Howard!!!

-Allen