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Archive of Daily Pledge, Bonfires and Quit Celebrations

Independence Day Bonfire is Now Beginning!!!

ShawnP
Member
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Welcome! The bonfire is now starting. It will continue through Sunday night midnight 11:59 EST. For those that aren't familiar with our bonfires, the fuel for the fire is your unsmoked cigarettes. It would be your days quit x how many cigarettes that you USED to smoke. You can find your days quit here...My Quit plan   Also, here is a calculator that you can use. Just edit the numbers to yours. You can find other statistics as well. 

 

Our goal tonight is a standard of 1 million. We usually do more. Our highest was 2,895,441 at the beginning of this year.

 

Feel free to post music, food or funny images. Please note that we do have to abide by "no copyright material". This site provides links to pics  . We are also having costumes. What can be more funnier than trying out different figures, animals etc? haha

Here are links that you can use....

1.  https://www.face-in-hole.net/

2.  http://photofunmaker.com/mans-face-effects

3.  Photomontage of Borat with his * banana hammock * green and sunglasses 

 

If you are mobile user, there are apps that you can use as well.

 

In case that you don't know how to post pics or videos, here are the tutorials

 

1.  https://excommunity.becomeanex.org/docs/DOC-1062-how-to-put-pictures-in-posts-of-all-kinds-discussio...

 

2.  https://excommunity.becomeanex.org/thread/17458-how-to-uploadembed-videos?commentID=115169#comment

 

NOW LET'S HAVE SOME FUN!!

(if you don't see a friend here, message them. The more, the merrier!!)

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230 Comments
Posamari
Member

No way is a couple nail biting quakes and aftershocks here in the high desert of southern California gonna make me smoke!!!    

Here's 34,348 menthol 100s stinky sticks to throw in!

Stand back!

Whoooooooshhhhhh!

Thanks Shawn and Elders for all you do! ❤️

Time to rock on the Independence Day Bonfire! 

(Literally in SoCal quake country) 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=myo9wXrNUP4 

Barbscloud
Member

Here's 30 (or maybe 40 on a bad day) to add to the fire.   

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Giulia
Member

Ah, I see our CaravanMaster showed up.  Afternoon Larry

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Brought some nice scorpion kebobs for ya on the trail

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And a little Scorpion music to wash it down with...

lqsi12
Member

Giulia‌ scorpion kabobs ! LOL where in the world hahahha

Giulia
Member

Several places in the world, actually!

RachelMB
Member

Hi guys-

I am throwing in another 20 for today! Thanks Shawn for throwing such a great bonfire! 

Rachel 

Giulia
Member

Bringing a mass of pickles for the picnic

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Giulia
Member

Shawn, baby, you are lookin' FINE!

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mikecity
Member

Hi,

How is it going?

I have 30 more for the fire!!

Good time!!    Good time!!

Giulia
Member

Jackie, you got a new hairdo!!!!  We gotta go dancing again!

Giulia
Member

Hey Mike, gonna save the world, eh?  Glad you're on our team!  mikecity

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mikecity
Member

I have a way to go to have a body like that!!

Thanks for the complement.

Quite the party!!

ShawnP
Member

haha i was thinking same thing

ShawnP
Member

Stormmmmm!!! miss ya. I will have some of that peach tea and mouth watering honey fried chicken!!! Never had it before but it sure looks really yummy!!!

ShawnP
Member

Good to see you Annette!!!

ShawnP
Member

wow on those earthquakes but i am sure you are somewhat used to them. Thanks for the contribution. N.O.P.E!

ShawnP
Member

ewwwwwwww

ShawnP
Member

hahahhaha I LOVE IT!!!

Giulia
Member

Wheeling in my load of unsmoked nasties:  146,297

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ShawnP
Member

wooooow! that sure is alot, Ms.Giulia 

ShawnP
Member

Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey - When you Believe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKaXY4IdZ40

ShawnP
Member

Pizza and salad is here. A little late lunch

OldBones-Larry

83386 Death sticks for the bonfire at this time. Better that bonfire than my lungs !!!!

indingrl
Member

Thanks Shawn - I love pizza YUMMIE !!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤so full- lol - I am a gobbler - pizza PIZZA and salad lover too - best LATE lunch ever - ❤

Thomas3.20.2010

Contributing my unsmoked sickerettes: 33.960 after 7 Years, 3 Months, 2 Weeks, 3 Days, 1 Hour, 57 Minutes and counting!

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ShawnP
Member

OldBones-Larry‌-great to see you! thank you!

Thomas3.20.2010‌ omgggggggg i miss you so much!!!!! thank you for coming!!! ok these next 2 are for you. I hope you will come and dance with me

Santana- Carazon Espinado

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6omUxqhG78&list=PL6giaKx8O3QQ1FJPkBa5l4NGkt1vUvIT5

Santana- Moonflower

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5b3VBUW2ok

TW517
Member

I love this tradition.  Seeing the number of cigarettes not smoked was a big motivator for me.  I gladly add my 11,744 to the fire!

ShawnP
Member

Thomas3.20.2010‌ our next Carlos Santana  ❤️

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ShawnP
Member

Great to see you, Tom. wow thank you so much!!!

JACKIE1-25-15
Member

Adding another 10 stinkers

ShawnP
Member

me too!!! i had deep dish last weekend. Was soooo good

ShawnP
Member

7 more hours to go and we are at 

1,871,183

TW517
Member

WOW!  How many people have contributed to that total?

ShawnP
Member

41 people so far. Think of how many people are on the site. If you see someone not here, message them to come.

ShawnP
Member

Bonnie11.3.2009‌ asked me to toss in hers. She has 106,020 not smoked!!

Legend
Member

Shawn 

Gwenivere  If Gwenivere did not give you her number of smokes I did just invite her to this Bonfire if she does not know it is going on. I did not see any activity on her page so I sent her a private message to please come. 

jonimarie
Member

I have another 20 cigarettes to throw in from yesterday

Thought I would bring some coffee and relief for all the food and good music we had before we head out on our journey homeimages.jpeg images.jpeg

So much fun

Thomas3.20.2010

That's too funny, Shawn!

nanawendy
Member

Hello Everybody !!! Just dropping by to have a margarita with extra salt with Tommy and throw my 47,575 unsmoked cigarettes into the fire.  

ShawnP
Member

For anybody that is reading this that hasn't contributed. Whether your numbers are small or big, everything counts! We do this as a group. Be proud of your quit. Also, for those that are using NRT's but not smoking, toss those unsmokes in. It counts!!

Gwenivere
Member

Legend‌, I thought I had updated my quit date to December 2, 2018.  At that time it was 18.  Thanks for the invite.

ShawnP
Member

heheh i love it!!!!

Legend
Member

Gwenivere Yay you came to be with us.

ShawnP
Member

i checked your profile, does 3,701 not smoked sound right to you?

ShawnP
Member

Legend
Member

Peter Frampton - Baby I Love Your Way (FCA! 35 Tour - An Evening With Peter Frampton)

https://youtu.be/HN0fneIQhJk

ShawnP
Member

Legend
Member

I have 18 more smokes to toss into the fire today.

Legend
Member

The Beach Boys perform a medley of their hits with John Stamos and Jimmy Buffett

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnRchdfsnMw

kristen-9-7-15

Almost missed the party! Im tossing in.....

48991

3 Years, 9 Months, 29 Days, 17 Hours, 34 Minutes Smoke free

About the Author
I am 51 yrs old and live in the Greater Cleveland area. I started smoking at a young age. I think it was more peer pressure at that time and just a few cigarettes a day until i became "LEGAL" to smoke. I then started smoking a pack or more a day, using stress as my excuse to smoke more. In reality, I realized after i quit smoking that there is no excuses for smoking. I am approaching 4 yrs next month, but I still have to work to protect my quit. I am here on Ex faithfully helping others and in return helps me. We call it here on Ex "Collateral Kindness" here is a link to my blog, 1 yr later that explained my trials in the the beginning of my quit. https://excommunity.becomeanex.org/blogs/ShawnP-blog/2013/03/14/one-year-later