# The Great SD SMOKE-OUT Topic - Part 2 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 20, 2000, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sd-smoke-out-topic-part-2/20056 "2000-05-20T16:22:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![katzmeow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7bcc69/32.png) [@katzmeow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katzmeow)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2000, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sd-smoke-out-topic-part-2/20056/221 "2000-06-17T01:12:55Z")
Hi all you of non-smokers…I am so proud of you and since I have been amongst the missing for a week or so, I am glad to see that most of you have been “good”! OK, Shayna, this post should bring this topic back to the top and I want to see a report from you…Have you rollerbladed? Run along the beach? Taken Mew for a walk?(LOL)Just how are you filling all of your smoke-free time? If you answer me by saying that you are spending extra amounts of time at the Cheesecake Factory, I will be jealous but I guess I will also have to plan another trip to California so we can go shopping for new clothes…snicker, snicker. I know you are doing great, taking your waterbottle everywhere with you. Keep up the great work and I will keep in touch! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sd-smoke-out-topic-part-2/20056/222 "2000-06-20T04:21:52Z")
I’m very, very, very sorry I let this slip so low and haven’t checked in with everyone in a while. The truth is, I got kindof discouraged with all the people who’d gone back to smoking - and at one point the only remaining quitters were me and ruadh, who doesn’t post in this thread much anyway. I hope no one thinks I’ve let them down. I really want everyone to succeed and I’ll do whatever you guys need to help you along. **weirddave & spolvy** , how are you guys doing? Dave, you’re not smoking again, are you? Spolvy, what did your doctor say? Are you on Zyban now? Also, today was supposed to have been **Democritus’s** quit day. Demo, did you quit? If so, check in and let us know how you’re doing. Thanks to all the non-smokers who keep checking in with us to see how we’re doing. I’m still hanging in there, but I still want a cigarette from time to time every day. I hope that goes away pretty soon. So how’s everyone else doing? My meter now reads: 1 month, 2 weeks, 5 days, 22 hours, 5 minutes and 45 seconds. 599 cigarettes not smoked, saving $92.85. Life saved: 2 days, 1 hour, 55 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![katzmeow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7bcc69/32.png) [@katzmeow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katzmeow)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sd-smoke-out-topic-part-2/20056/223 "2000-06-20T19:05:03Z")
**Whew!!!** When you didn’t post after I did, I was worried that you had slipped…Whooo-Whooo! You are still smoke-free!😃 Great going Shayna! Hopefully there are still some of the others not smoking too! But if not, don’t get discouraged…I know that you are over the hump… I don’t know if I told you or not, but my mother quit smoking 26 years ago and she still has a “craving” once in a while, so I guess that that is natural. Keep up the good work and just think of how “pink” your lungs are getting.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sd-smoke-out-topic-part-2/20056/224 "2000-06-28T16:23:30Z")
I just wanted to make the official announcement in this thread, that my way of honoring **WallyM7** since his passing away in a tragic accident, is to make it my vow that **for Wally, I will not smoke for the rest of my life!** **Wally** , I’m writing this to you as though I imagine you can still lurk here and read it. Tears are still streaming down my face, and haven’t stopped for over a week now since your passing. I will never, ever forget what you did for me here in these threads, or how you touched my life in a million other ways. You were my rock, my inspiration, my cheerleader, my friend, and so much more. Though I don’t wish to diminish everyone else’s participation here, or the strength of my own efforts, it was you, **WallyM7** , who set the tone for how successful the Smoke-Out threads would be. You never liked taking any credit for what you did for me here, but I can assure you - having tried this a dozen times and failed - that there is no way on earth I could have done it this time without you. You are the primary reason that my “smober” meter now reads… I have been smoke free for 1 month, 4 weeks, 9 hours, 50 minutes and 22 seconds. I haven’t smoked 700 cigarettes, saving $108.64. And I have added 2 days, 10 hours, 20 minutes to my life. If only you could be here for me to share that extra time with. I will never, ever forget you and the impact you made on my life. You touched my heart and my soul so deeply that I can’t even fathom this world without you in it. It just seems an emptier place. You enriched all of our lives just by your mere presence. I am blessed to have known you, even if for only a brief moment in time. I love you, **Wally**. And yes, I will marry you. Forever, Jill [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sd-smoke-out-topic-part-2/20056.md?page=11)