Wow Dale that's a scrumptious looking chicken dinner for our very own Daniela which is well deserved and then some that's for sure CONGRATULATIONS Daniela on your fantastic fabulous beautiful glorious wonderful humongous ginormous magnificent amazing spectacular splendiferous stupendous spectacular awesome entrance into the Quad Squad, YAY for your precious quit journey YAY for Smokefree living and YAY for each and every Day WON...... YAY for 1,000 super fantastic Smokefree days and counting WTG my friend and Fellow Exer and most definetly EXtended family XO. ....
Super ginormous congratulations! You have made significant contributions here, and that is greatly appreciated.I hope you celebrate your beautiful milestone with something very special.
Thank you so much Dale for making me dinner, it looks fantastic, and you know what, I'll eat a piece of skin too, it just looks too good not to
And thank you all for making this day special for me, you are my mentors, my partners, my friends, you are who I tell first when I have a good day or a bad one.
I love you and I am so proud to call myself your friend!
Thank you Sootie, I think the little not says it all when it comes to quitting smoking, I think the positive outlook on the process, along with turning what might seem overwhelming into something we can be proud of, it one of the secrets of a successful quit.
Hello,
My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit.
HOW I QUIT
I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started.
When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.
