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Skid Mark Serious Thumper Offline FSO Posts: 1216 Calgary, Alberta Gender:	Re: smoke free 2 years Reply #15 - 06/09/10 at 17:35:47 Way to go Kim!!! Aged 2 years there is no reason whAt so ever to lite up again. Nonsmoking since 1992 myself.
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Reply #16 - 06/09/10 at 18:19:49

Well done! I quit just after high school and was stupid enough to start again in '88 for a few of years. Being a Commercial Salamander for 14 years, I had to pass a pulmonary function exam yearly to wear my respirator. Watching the older journeymen fight for breath and have to try several times just to pass the basic test was an eye opener. It's amazing the change the first year after you quit! Congratulations!!! You've added time to your life and life to your time!!!

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jef.savage Serious Thumper Offline ridin' n slidin' Posts: 638 Boston, MA Gender:	Re: smoke free 2 years Reply #17 - 06/09/10 at 19:14:05 woohoo!!!
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Reply #18 - 06/10/10 at 06:18:38

Southpaw wrote on 06/09/10 at 18:19:49:

Well done! I quit just after high school and was stupid enough to start again in '88 for a few of years. Being a Commercial Salamander for 14 years, I had to pass a pulmonary function exam yearly to wear my respirator. Watching the older journeymen fight for breath and have to try several times just to pass the basic test was an eye opener. It's amazing the change the first year after you quit! Congratulations!!! You've added time to your life and life to your time!!!

you are right southpaw just 7 months after I quit I went to see my lung doctor two weeks later I got a report back ,on two occasions it said "lungs clear" I past all the tests with flying colors. as we say in England "I was chuffed"

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kimchris1 Serious Thumper Offline Pink Posse Rider... Posts: 2135 Belfair, Washington Gender:	Re: smoke free 2 years Reply #19 - 06/10/10 at 09:25:33 That is great to hear Mick.. Great work everyone.. It is easy to quit. The hard part is staying quit. I don't know what lies ahead as none of us do. I just feel now that whatever happens I can handle without cigarettes. Yet without friends and my bike, now that would be impossible..
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Reply #20 - 06/10/10 at 12:42:19

Kimmy, you know I've been helping my mother get moved. Thank goodness, its now over... she absolutely loves her new apartment, by the way. But anyway, she had some pollups removed from her vocal chords many years ago, and quit smoking cold turkey. Her 2nd husband smoked like a freight train and died 5 years ago of lung cancer. All the while he is smoking, she never picked one up, to my knowledge. Now all these years later, she is smoking again. Don't know why she started, and I scolded her, as we sat on the swing and smoked together... But as you said, you never know.... I never thought I'd see her smoke again.

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Reply #21 - 06/10/10 at 15:12:23

Well bless her heart. My Mother is soon to be 77 years old and still smokes. She never started till she was 40. She also has a beer from time to time. Her health is very very good.
When I was there and spent the 2 weeks with her the latter part of April, I had hoped I could persuade her to quit. Yet she is not ready to and who I to preach right or wrong to her?
O yeah I am her daughter that wants her around forever.
Whether she smokes or not isn't going to let me have her here forever, yet it might give her a few more years than if she continues to smoke.
Again she will either continue or quit. I love her all the same.

Now if I can get the weight off I gained when I quit then all will be well.. Wink

It appears I have an addicitve personality. So I gave up cigarettes and am trying to lose the weight.. Hmmm wonder what the next addiction will be? O yeah... My Bike.. :'( Cheesy

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Re: smoke free 2 years
Reply #22 - 06/10/10 at 20:32:47

Lisa and I have tomorrow as our quit date. I started giving away my lighters and junk this afternoon. We'll be out of tubes, out of rolling tobacco, and neither the reservation smoke shop or "Queen Christine" (governor of Watchertongue the Never Mean State) need any more of my money.

I'm tired of everything I eat or drink tasting like burnt metal. Can't blame welding slag/fumes anymore, haven't popped a bead in a couple years. I can't even kickstart an Ironhead Sportster anymore, get winded too easily. And forget walking around my semi... Sad, when I first started smoking for real I could run up Mt St Helens, hike 50 miles in a weekend, swim over a mile.

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