# Three Cheers for Satan! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 20, 2000, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-cheers-for-satan/16238 "2000-04-20T13:37:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Guy\_Propski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5e9695/32.png) [@Guy\_Propski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Propski)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2000, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-cheers-for-satan/16238/1 "2000-04-20T13:37:00Z")
I just had to start this thread in support of our pal, Satan, who’s been so public about quitting smoking. I don’t know him, other than through his many excellent and witty posts, but I felt I wanted to let him know that I hope he succeeds in kicking the habit. Plus, it’s just fun to start a psuedo-Satan worshipping thread. 😉 Go, Satan, go! ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2000, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-cheers-for-satan/16238/2 "2000-04-20T13:52:00Z")
“Go, Satan, go!” [mental image of Satanic Cheerleaders] I recall two or three others who said they were quitting at the same time—any updates from them? ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2000, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-cheers-for-satan/16238/3 "2000-04-20T14:01:00Z")
UncleBeer is still smoke-free. I think today is day #43. ---
**Author:** ![Delta-9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@Delta-9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Delta-9)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2000, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-cheers-for-satan/16238/4 "2000-04-20T14:15:00Z")
Still a _former_ smoker. It’s been pretty easy for me because I had just fallen off the wagon a couple months ago – after quitting for two years. I haven’t been a smoker (this time around) for very long. I seem to remember someone saying something about cheerleader pictures in the Quitting Smoking Diary thread. Haven’t seen them yet. Just thinking about SDMB females in cheerleader outfits . . . mmm . . . Um, I have to go to the bathroom now 😃 **The SDMB Smoke-Out Continues** _Delta-9 Stats_ 1 week, 3 days, 11 hours, 5 minutes and 43 seconds 209 cigarettes not smoked, saving me $41.85 Life Saved: 17 hours, 25 minutes ---
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2000, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-cheers-for-satan/16238/5 "2000-04-20T14:41:00Z")
aha is still smoke free, today is around day #7,300 Kick that demon nicotine’s ass Satan. * * * One of the few to be personally welcomed to this board by Ed Zotti. Yours truly, aha ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2000, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-cheers-for-satan/16238/6 "2000-04-20T14:44:00Z")
Dear Satan, I am thoroughly impressed by your devotion to the task you have at hand; quitting smoking. The tenacity with which you cling to your goal is commendable. I was doing my very best to emulate you, downloading the silkquit meter, going on the patch, until this very morning, when I realized the atrocity of my thread from late last night while drunk. I have fallen, but with your gentle encouragement, your humble words of wisdom, and the occasional pointy end of the pitchfork as a motivator, I shall crawl back on that wagon yet again! Thank you, Brian P.S. Can I have a taco? ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2000, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-cheers-for-satan/16238/7 "2000-04-20T14:49:00Z")
From what I’ve heard, smoking is a _real_ devil. congrats and best wishes to all the SDMB Quitters! * * * You say “cheesy” like that’s a **BAD** thing. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2000, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-cheers-for-satan/16238/8 "2000-04-20T15:00:00Z")
I read this just this morning, in a reissued 1867 novel written by a Civil War veteran: “Our men are not heroes in battle alone. Three months without shelter, drenched by rain or scorched by the sun, tormented by mosquitoes, tainted with fever, shaking with the ague, they appear stoically indifferent to all hardships but their lack of tobacco.” Not addictive, my eye! By the way, the book is John DeForest’s snappily-titled “Miss Ravenel’s Conversion from Secession to Loyalty,” and is a corking good read. ---
**Author:** ![OldBroad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@OldBroad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldBroad)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2000, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-cheers-for-satan/16238/9 "2000-04-20T15:24:00Z")
Keep up the struggle. If you fall off the wagon, hop right back on. It’s worth the effort. Good luck to all. ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2000, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-cheers-for-satan/16238/10 "2000-04-20T15:50:00Z")
Aw, shucks. Thanks, guys… I stopped posting to the Diary because it reached the point where I was the only one doing the posting, and besides, I have my stats in every post I do anyway. A constant reminder of my task at hand! I know I could do this, more than ever before, because eben if I was going to let myself down, and even if I was going to let Drain bead down, I would hve a lot of trouble answering to everyone here whom I would let down! * * * Yer pal, Satan [http://www.raleighmusic.com/board/Images/devil.gif](http://www.raleighmusic.com/board/Images/devil.gif) _I HAVE BEEN SMOKE-FREE FOR: One week, four days, 13 hours, 50 minutes and 22 seconds. 463 cigarettes not smoked, saving $57.88. Life saved: 1 day, 14 hours, 35 minutes._ ---
**Author:** ![Kiki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kiki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiki)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2000, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-cheers-for-satan/16238/11 "2000-04-20T16:54:00Z")
Keep it up Satan!! You can do it!! ::doing the cabbage patch:: Go Satan Go Satan Go, Go, Go Satan : :oh, sorry, I didn’t think anyone was watching… I’m so embarrassed:: :eek: Good luck Satan! * * * That John Denver’s full of shit man! ---
**Author:** ![Kricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2000, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-cheers-for-satan/16238/12 "2000-04-21T07:12:00Z")
Keep up the great work everybody!!! I quit off and on. Sorry I have one seriously bad habit! I know I could, but my husband doesn’t want to and that makes it a bit harder. Quit for a year once, and then my son was in the hospital near death. I have no idea why, but I went out and had a smoke. It wasn’t until we got him home that I realized what I had done. Keep it up guys your are all stronger people than me! Hey, BTW, can I be a cheerleader too??? Please?! I promise to behave myself! Those short skirts and all you know… * * * ## Mistress Kricket Are you stuck on stupid? ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2000, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-cheers-for-satan/16238/13 "2000-04-21T22:33:00Z")
Three months, two weeks, five days, 17 hours, 38 minutes and 52 seconds. 2768 cigarettes not smoked, saving fl 844,03. Life saved: 1 week, 2 days, 14 hours, 40 minutes. Woohoo 😉 ---
**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2000, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-cheers-for-satan/16238/14 "2000-04-21T22:38:00Z")
I’m glad, too, that you are wrasslin’ the nicotine demon victoriously, but I still don’t think I’m gonna say the name of this thread aloud.