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Offline ninereasons

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Re: Not too late
« Reply #110 on: August 03, 2011, 12:12:00 AM »
Day 169

I was blessing the newbies with my astonishing insights today, and it provided me the opportunity to realize how little I've been thinking about nicotine.

I had a craving about a week ago. If you can call it that. It was a pitiful, weak, orphan of an urge that pulled at the fringe of my consciousness and darted away into the shadows before I could really even get a glimpse of it. Sneaky, but shrunken and not even a shadow of its former terrifying self. I didn't stop to take in the significance of that at the time, but did today - and it is a big deal.

Next week will be different - I always need to remind myself of that, to keep a watch against my old nemesis Complacency. But, I'm enjoying this season of life, greatly. I've had very few like it in my life. I am quite fully assured that, it will get even better.

I am grateful. And I'm realizing now that gratitude is an even stronger weapon against falling back, than willpower or fear were earlier in my quit.
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Re: Not too late
« Reply #109 on: May 26, 2011, 11:01:00 AM »
Here's to your first 100...well done...from a guy kicking Day 2 in the ass. You're an inspiration and part of why this site works, I can tell that already. I'm in it for the haul this time and people like you make it a little easier. Thank you!
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Re: Not too late
« Reply #108 on: May 26, 2011, 06:42:00 AM »
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Quote from: ninereasons
The decision is already made when I wake up every day:  "Just say Hell No!".  Now quitting is not a choice, it's a cause.
Nine,

I think I got quit envy....

30
just saw this......

BBBOOOIIINNNGGGG!!!!!!!! Quit-agra right here.

Serious quit wood.

Congrats on the hundy....stick with the cause bro and we'll celebrate a thoudy.
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Re: Not too late
« Reply #107 on: May 26, 2011, 01:46:00 AM »
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Congrats on your first hundo, nine.
Congrats brother
Hell yea. Nicely done. See you tomorrow.
Thank you all for your doing your part to keep me clean.
Well done. Now you can live.
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...when you are suffering on some gnarly hillclimb, clinging onto the wheel in front of you for dear life, pray you don't get dropped.

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Re: Not too late
« Reply #106 on: May 25, 2011, 01:11:00 PM »
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Congrats on your first hundo, nine.
Congrats brother
Congratulations, Nine - proud of your quit man - an honor to quit with you today!
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Offline ninereasons

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Re: Not too late
« Reply #105 on: May 25, 2011, 11:14:00 AM »
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Congrats on your first hundo, nine.
Congrats brother
Hell yea. Nicely done. See you tomorrow.
Thank you all for your doing your part to keep me clean.
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Re: Not too late
« Reply #104 on: May 25, 2011, 10:10:00 AM »
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Congrats on your first hundo, nine.
Congrats brother
Hell yea. Nicely done. See you tomorrow.
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Re: Not too late
« Reply #103 on: May 25, 2011, 09:50:00 AM »
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Congrats on your first hundo, nine.
Congrats brother
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Re: Not too late
« Reply #102 on: May 25, 2011, 09:45:00 AM »
Congrats on your first hundo, nine.
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Re: Not too late
« Reply #101 on: April 19, 2011, 11:44:00 AM »
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Good stuff nine. I'd still never get in your van.  :ph43r:
My wife doesn't like my avatar either.

Thanks for stopping by on your big day! Congratulations on your first hundred.
Good to be quit with you.
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Re: Not too late
« Reply #100 on: April 17, 2011, 06:46:00 AM »
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The decision is already made when I wake up every day: "Just say Hell No!". Now quitting is not a choice, it's a cause.
Nine,

I think I got quit envy....

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Offline ninereasons

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Re: Not too late
« Reply #99 on: April 17, 2011, 12:54:00 AM »
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Good stuff nine. I'd still never get in your van. :ph43r:
My wife doesn't like my avatar either.

Thanks for stopping by on your big day! Congratulations on your first hundred.
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Re: Not too late
« Reply #98 on: April 15, 2011, 09:18:00 PM »
Good stuff nine. I'd still never get in your van. :ph43r:
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Re: Not too late
« Reply #97 on: April 15, 2011, 09:11:00 PM »
See you tomorrow. Glad you are here.
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Offline ninereasons

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Re: Not too late
« Reply #96 on: April 15, 2011, 07:31:00 PM »
Day 60

Everytime I returned to the can in the past, it was never because I really wanted it. I reached a point where I was exactly 50% about staying quit. I could go on with or without it. It's easy in that state of mind to forget that the game of quit is rigged. If the score is Me 100, Nic 1, I lose: Quit Over. In a contest so heavily weighted against me, I need to keep an edge.

Reading here - even when it's foggy and rambling nonsense, even when it's my own stuff - and posting every day, has helped me keep that edge.

I could probably stay quit for a while making the daily decision to "just say no": that could go either way. In the past it did go both ways - sometimes staying quit, sometimes not. If there was a choice to be made during these past 60 days, I can think of half a dozen occasions when I'd already have lost.

But since I've been here, quitting has become more than just a daily decision. Now, there's only one choice open to me. The decision is already made when I wake up every day: "Just say Hell No!". Now quitting is not a choice, it's a cause.
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