Re: >>>> M 4 Stephanie <<<<

Stephanie just keep doing whatever it is that got you this far. I will keep
leading if you will keep following!!!!!

Cindy'
One month, six days, 15 hours, 28 minutes and 45 seconds. 752 cigarettes not
smoked, saving $153.97. Life saved: 2 days, 14 hours, 40 minutes.

"Stephanie" <stephanieajesq@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Cindy I need tons of advice on how to make it through the next 6 days,
so you keep posting what you are doing, as I'm right there mirroring
your footsteps!! Thank you! xo Stephanie

Cindy wrote:
Congrats on your month of being smokefree. Thanks for the excellent
post.
Sure made me stop and think!!!!! You are doing great....

Cindy
One month, six days, 12 hours, 29 minutes and 58 seconds. 750 cigarettes
not
smoked, saving $153.46. Life saved: 2 days, 14 hours, 30 minutes.

"Stephanie" <stephanieajesq@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks sweetie - I JUST this minute looked down to the meter, as I had
been wondering if it would just count in weeks, hours, minutes etc ...
but NOOOOOO, wouldja look here?!?!?! It has a "M" in it!!!! Clever
gadget.

I am tremendously, TREMENDOUSLY grateful for the care and support of
the members of this group. I say plainly: I could not have done this
without you. I am certain of this. I am certain that without you - if
left alone up in that danger zone between my ears, I would have at some
point or points spun this and teased it out and justified one-a-week or
one-a-day until the ***-its had me back in full grip.

This is what I have learned, concluded, observed this month (in no
particular order):

1) My first week I remember Chef Paul's 'May Day May Day" post. I
can only say that when he posted that morning it was pretty plain that
he was posting pro-forma, sort of a 'all right, so here I am posting,
damn it all, like this and what army is going to stop me ...' but that
post triggered the MIRACLE, namely "A3S to the Rescue." Posts in
flurry, posts to hold-on, posts of spiritual support, posts with
concrete advice, posts somewhat snide & off-the-cuff, posts of as many
colors ... but the point is: posts came in fast .... and Chef Paul
posted back .... and it was as though we all walked together through
that day with him .... and by the end of the day we could feel him
palpably ease. Since "May Day" Day Chef Paul celebrated his first
smober birthday since age 18.

What did I personally learn from this? Post first. Post if you've
got your keys in hand, ready to hit the door to go buy smokes. Give us
time to get our arms around you. ESPECIALLY if you don't feel like
being dissuaded. If you feel like knocking our arms off it probably
means you have stuff all pent up and may need to cry, or to go hit
tennis balls, or to punch pillows or something.

I believe that there is a tacit A3S agreement: In exchange for the
care and support I know I can rely on if I post 'May day May day,' I
agree to in fact post first, instead of smoke first.

2) Nothing (except A3S) is more important than exercise. To use my
heart and lungs as intended. To actively work them, to feel them
working deeply, to note the gains in wind as the weeks have gone on.
This requires no equipment, no shoes, no babysitter, nothing. Any
activity works. Dance. Mop with vigor. Walk. Do anything that gets
blood pumping. Stay in the moment. Be really conscious "Oh wow, this
is what my heart and lungs are for!! I had kind of forgotten! My last
connection with my lungs were that choked up, scary toxic inner cloud
kind of feeling. So THIS is what working lungs feel like!!"

3) Chewing on ice. As a finger food. Not wildly hygenic (whereas
scrounging up a *** from the trash can was oh-so-hygenic), but I don't
care.

4) Speaking of trash cans: I tend to throw papers away that I turn out
actually needing, which requires personal dumpster-dives. May I note:
there is NO comparison between going through a trash can with various
papers, gum wrappers, etc and that same trash can WITH butts, ashes,
etc. Almost makes me want to toss my tax docs away just to enjoy the
(comparative) pleasure of retrieving them from the trash.

5). Feelings are not facts. I don't act on my feelings. I act on my
Decision. My Decision is that I do not smoke. My feelings are
unreliable, labile, and tend to take themselves way too seriously.

6) If you want support around here when you are desperate, be sure to
take time on your non-desperate days to offer support.

7) Nothing worth having comes without work. Embrace the notion that
quitting is a challenge, that it is tough. Yeah, it is tough. It is
work. Which makes doing it an extraordinary achievement.

8) Embrace the silliness. It tends to ease the tension, that tight
grip that the drug tells us only more of the drug will ease. That is
sooooo a lie. Friendship, laughing, joking, commiserating,
good-natured trash-talking, buddying-up, looking out for the well-being
of your special A3S pals ... THIS is what eases the tension.

Thank you
Thank you
Thank you
Thank you
Thank you

love, Stephanie
Proud (girl) member of SFB2

and .... (you ready ?)

One month, 45 minutes and 38 seconds. 240 cigarettes not smoked, saving
$92.97. Life saved: 20 hours, 0 minutes.

WOWWEEEE !!!!






jsteam wrote:
Need to formalize this SFB2 member's GREAT ACCOMPLISHMENT here!
WTGGGGGGG!

jad
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