Sat, Dec-14-02, 12:36
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Senior Member
Posts: 100
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Plan: Atkins
Stats: 233/208/185
BF:30
Progress: 52%
Location: Berkeley, CA
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2 Year Anniversary
I quit two years ago and haven't looked back. I came across this board and realized that I quit in December two years ago. I often enjoyed smoking back then, but the second I gave them up I really came to enjoy fresh air and the energy boost. I quit cold turkey. A friend of mine really helped out when I first started. I was going crazy for a cigarette and was going to go out and buy a pack and he said, "Why are going to do that you're a non-smoker?" That's when it hit me. I had been a non-smoker for about two days and that had come to mean something to me. I really didn't want to be in the smoker's camp anymore. I didn't want to smell like cigs, I wanted to widen my sex appeal to more women , and my health concerns were nagging at me. So every time I wanted a cigarette I'd think, "that's ludicrous! I'm not a smoker." In a nutshell, it became a status thing. I just couldn't give up non-smoker status. I'm not usually very status-conscious, but this was one area of my life where I was. It helped me to stay on track remembering that I was a non-smoker. That was my impetus to give them up.
Tom
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