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! 
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.
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.
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