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Archive of Daily Pledge, Bonfires and Quit Celebrations

New Year's Bonfire is now beginning!!!

ShawnP
Member
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Good evening! I am doing things a little different tonight. I am going to start off with the 70's music in the first hour and move my way up in decades. Every hour, i will also give totals. Bring food, I am only supplying appetizers. LOL

Come celebrate your freedom!

   Your fuel for the fire is.....Number of days that you are smoke free x the number of cigarettes that you used to smoke per day.
   
   Bonfire will continue til Monday at midnight!
   
   Join in on the fun. Feel free to share food and music if you wish.
   
  
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278 Comments
elvan
Member

Thought I threw these on last night but apparently I didn't so in addition to the 20 I added today, I am throwing on 1078DOF times 20 cigs/day = 21,560 MORE cigarettes to BURN, BABY, BURN!

Thanks, Shawn.

Cindiboo
Member
Thank you for hosting the bonfire!! It's excellent to throw those awful dreadful stocks of poisonous cancer in and let them burn.
ShawnP
Member

@ cindiboo, you're welcome

@Ellen, i am glad u threw them in, i was getting cold here lol

Storm.3.1.14
Member

Hey, villagers, I brought all the fixins to make waffle cone s'mores on the campire coals!

And, I'm proud to incinerate another 27 mistakes tonight. Good riddance!

Thank you, Shawn, for being such a dedicated host for all the past bonfires!

And, Happy TRUE Year to everyone who wants to get it right and keep it right in 2017!

LIVE FORWARD!

SmokedOut041412

I have been quit for 4 Years, 8 Months, 2 Weeks, 4 Days, 19 hours, 15 minutes and 38 seconds (1,724 days). I have saved $7,063.05 by not smoking 24,147 cigarettes. I have saved 2 Months, 3 Weeks, 1 Day, 20 hours and 15 minutes of my life. My Quit Date: 4/14/2012 12:00 AM

brittann3
Member

My quit date was 10/17/2016. That's 1,326 cigarettes NOT smoked and about $398 NOT spent!! It's still so hard to believe that I just decided not to smoke and then I didn't. 

ShawnP
Member

Mothergoose can't be here tonight but gave me her number. 62,025 i am tossing in for her!!!

Pops
Member
What's the total?
ShawnP
Member

i will announce in am but we are over our the total from last bonfire.

Pops
Member
Thanks a million for hosting the bonfire. Hopefully you'll get some sleep tonight. Pops
ShawnP
Member

I always sleep good after a good bonfire. That smoke makes me sleepy.

c2q
Member

Can't wait to see the results. Thanks Shawn.

Chris265
Member

Arriving a little late – but I have a massive 54,600 un-smoked cigarettes to add to the fire.  Pleasant surprise to realize it’s been 3 years nine months to the day!  Let em burn!

Legend
Member

I’m tossing in 41 more cigarettes into to bonfire.

freeneasy
Member

Thanks for reminding me Shawn! Sorry, I'm late here's my 30,600 unsmoked cancer sticks.

misty_dawn
Member

Thank you for finding me, Shawn! I would have missed it. 😄

I have

2,350 days of freedom from cigarettes

47,000 unsmoked tobacco sticks to toss in this fire!

And $15,098 not spent on killing myself slowly.

Thank you everyone who helped on my journey!

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ShawnP
Member

Smorgy came earlier but, forgot to leave her number. Her number was 24,938!!!

Our final count for the bonfire is....

Thank you and the final count blog can be found here.

Rick_M
Member

Thank U Shawn....

ShawnP
Member
Louis1988
Member

I am throwing in a log for my 231st cigarette that I did NOT smoke!!!!!  WOW, look at that FLAME!!!!!    Thanks, Shawn!!!! 

Lauralives
Member

Wow!!  I haven't smoked 170 cigarettes since I quit and saved more than $50 already!!  I love looking at that!  Makes me feel like celebrating!  Yay!  Burn 'em up!!  Lauralives

Giulia
Member

NOTE:  THIS IS A NEW YEAR'S BONFIRE FROM SEVERAL MONTHS AGO. NEW BONFIRES WILL BE COMING UP!  SAVE YOUR UNSMOKED CIGARETTES FOR THE NEXT BONFIRE!  The tallies from the last one are over.  

Lauralives
Member

Thanks!!  Ok, I am saving them :}

JonesCarpeDiem

Could we please put some of the bonfires from 2010 up?  🙂

TerrieQuit
Member

hahaha!

NewMe
Member

JonesCarpeDiem Jeez Dale, we would come up with some awful deficits then, as we would have to remove all those butts for the people such as myself who were still smoking like chimneys in 2010!

Mike.n.Atlanta

Hope everyone is enjoying themselves. Here's my 135,668 unsmoked cigarettes to toss on the conflagration. ;o)

Keep on keepin on,

M n @

TerrieQuit
Member

Good times, as always!

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