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[Smokeyg]

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[cdforecheck]

SMOKEY!!!  Write on your fucking page!

Sorry fellas. October needs me now....

Give me a topic and perhaps I will supply a short narrative for your enjoyment.

What do you think 5 major indicators are to determine if the economy is starting to improve.

Better still, what are the 5 indicators that a quitter is beginning to plan their own cave... we all know that this planning stage does happen, and vets sure as hell can see it coming if they pay attention.

Ooohhh, this could be a lively discussion. I'll throw in my two cents, but we need a dollar.

I don't believe in a planned cave. I have strung together 100+ days in the past and I have caved on an absolute whim. So, I will tell you how I came to buy a 25 cent special Grizzly Long Cut Straight from a 7-11 clerk after he couldn't give me directions to a swimming pool located less than two blocks from his store....

1) I distanced myself from my support network. My nicotine cessation group had a one month "hoorah for us" Chinese dinner celebration. It was great. We all exchanged contact information and I intentionally gave the wrong phone number because I was ready to do this thing on my own. I was one of only two people who hadn't caved during the first 30 days in class.

2) I did not have a forum to vent my frustrations. I often found myself blaming my wife (then girlfriend) for things that stemmed from my own behavior. I had no fuse with my students. My rage was pent up and growing.

3) I grew extremely complacent with my quit. I had a little 30 day calendar and 30 stickers that I could place for every day I remained quit. I hung that on my fridge with the same pride JpCrew pinned up his 2.3 miracle semester Junior year in HS. After that, I stopped keeping track with stickers. After two months, I lost track in my head and soon after I just stopped thinking about my quit altogether. Why think about it if you are quit, right? I owned that shit.

4) When my wife asked me how my quit was going, I would start to feel a bit irritated. What does it have to do with her? I came to resent her probing into my personal struggle and eventually convinced myself that she was why I had quit. I forgot the personal moment when I declared, "I choose to control my future" as I tossed my last tin the garbage in front of my quit group. My addiction took over and changed that to "My wife chooses to control my future".

5) The big shabang. Intense moment of stress piled on top of a craving right in front of a 25 cent special rack and I had no support, tons of pent up frustrations, no pride in my own quit, and a girlfriend constantly telling me what to do. One won't hurt?

CAVING IS NOT AN OPTION! You can never have just one.

Told this story before but I think it's worth repeating...I quit once for 27 days. This was maybe 13 years ago. My close friends were blown away that I had quit and admitted to me that they had been wrong. I am the chupracabra. The Kid. I rule.

Monday. Had to teach a class in San Diego. I'm not a big fan of public speaking - kinda stresses me out. As I drove down from Ventura I ran out of the fake mint snuff. No big deal, when I got to San Diego I just went to a 7-11 to get some more. They were out. So was the next one. I didn't know the area. Random convenience stores didn't carry it. The clock was ticking. One more 7-11. No mint snuff? I'll take the Copenhagen.

It wasn't that I planned to cave. It's that I failed to plan, then caved.

For those that do plan to cave, it's my belief that the #1 reason is that they forgot why they quit. My reasons are written down in back and white right by the coffee maker.

i started when i was 14 and 'tried' a quit once about 3 years ago and faked a quit two years ago to please the wife. in the failed quit, i tried using nrp and it was useless, simply used the gum more than i did tobacco because my wife let me use the gum in front of her, i think at that time i used more nic in a day than ever before in my addiction. after about 3 weeks i quit spending the money on the gum and went back to the dip, i actually justified it by saying at least i'm not sending anymore money to big pharm. the second was my stealth quit, i figured if i ninjaed(yep, new word in my personal unabridged dictionary volume 3) better the wife would think i was quit and would leave me alone. i guess the details of how that went are just filled with screaming, accusations, and the idea that somehow my wife just didn't get me. then came the summer of 2009. my boys and i drove to florida and the wife flew down to meet us(not on her broom). wpw, i was in dipping heaven....BUTthat's a big but, i found myself dipping more and more. i was cold busted cans everywhere, spitters everywhere, when the wife got there, she was one pissed spouse but didn't say anything. well, vacation ended, she flew home, i drove the boys. sitting in the car sucking on a fatty my 10 year old say to me "dad, you are really being a bad influence on me." hell i've heard that about a million times but some how it stuck. we got home i bought what became my last roll. on july 17, i cracked the third can of the day, had started the day with an open can, do the math; fourth can of the day, at around 11:00 pm, looked in the bathroom mirror and said to myself, "Self, this is bullshit." dumped the can, flushed it, and went to bed. the next day i found this site, actually had to email chewie to sign up, computer problem, and haven't looked back. i will no longer be a liar to my wife and kids. i will be the role model my kids deserve. i will be my quit and will never look back.

[PbKid]

SMOKEY!!!  Write on your fucking page!

Sorry fellas. October needs me now....

Give me a topic and perhaps I will supply a short narrative for your enjoyment.

What do you think 5 major indicators are to determine if the economy is starting to improve.

Better still, what are the 5 indicators that a quitter is beginning to plan their own cave... we all know that this planning stage does happen, and vets sure as hell can see it coming if they pay attention.

Ooohhh, this could be a lively discussion. I'll throw in my two cents, but we need a dollar.

I don't believe in a planned cave. I have strung together 100+ days in the past and I have caved on an absolute whim. So, I will tell you how I came to buy a 25 cent special Grizzly Long Cut Straight from a 7-11 clerk after he couldn't give me directions to a swimming pool located less than two blocks from his store....

1) I distanced myself from my support network. My nicotine cessation group had a one month "hoorah for us" Chinese dinner celebration. It was great. We all exchanged contact information and I intentionally gave the wrong phone number because I was ready to do this thing on my own. I was one of only two people who hadn't caved during the first 30 days in class.

2) I did not have a forum to vent my frustrations. I often found myself blaming my wife (then girlfriend) for things that stemmed from my own behavior. I had no fuse with my students. My rage was pent up and growing.

3) I grew extremely complacent with my quit. I had a little 30 day calendar and 30 stickers that I could place for every day I remained quit. I hung that on my fridge with the same pride JpCrew pinned up his 2.3 miracle semester Junior year in HS. After that, I stopped keeping track with stickers. After two months, I lost track in my head and soon after I just stopped thinking about my quit altogether. Why think about it if you are quit, right? I owned that shit.

4) When my wife asked me how my quit was going, I would start to feel a bit irritated. What does it have to do with her? I came to resent her probing into my personal struggle and eventually convinced myself that she was why I had quit. I forgot the personal moment when I declared, "I choose to control my future" as I tossed my last tin the garbage in front of my quit group. My addiction took over and changed that to "My wife chooses to control my future".

5) The big shabang. Intense moment of stress piled on top of a craving right in front of a 25 cent special rack and I had no support, tons of pent up frustrations, no pride in my own quit, and a girlfriend constantly telling me what to do. One won't hurt?

CAVING IS NOT AN OPTION! You can never have just one.

Told this story before but I think it's worth repeating...I quit once for 27 days. This was maybe 13 years ago. My close friends were blown away that I had quit and admitted to me that they had been wrong. I am the chupracabra. The Kid. I rule.

Monday. Had to teach a class in San Diego. I'm not a big fan of public speaking - kinda stresses me out. As I drove down from Ventura I ran out of the fake mint snuff. No big deal, when I got to San Diego I just went to a 7-11 to get some more. They were out. So was the next one. I didn't know the area. Random convenience stores didn't carry it. The clock was ticking. One more 7-11. No mint snuff? I'll take the Copenhagen.

It wasn't that I planned to cave. It's that I failed to plan, then caved.

For those that do plan to cave, it's my belief that the #1 reason is that they forgot why they quit. My reasons are written down in back and white right by the coffee maker.

[jaydisco]

SMOKEY!!!  Write on your fucking page!

Sorry fellas. October needs me now....

Give me a topic and perhaps I will supply a short narrative for your enjoyment.

What do you think 5 major indicators are to determine if the economy is starting to improve.

1. Slowing Unemployment
2. Decreasing inventory levels
3. Increased availability in commercial credit
4. Stable housing prices
5. Increased Corporate earnings outlook

Hang in the JPCrew, credit spreads have already begun to contract signaling that corporate default rates are not expected to be as bad as first thought. Earnings projections for the SP 500 have crept up, and there is no reason to worry about inflation in the near future...better times are on the horizon.

Or we are all fukt.

[Smokeyg]

SMOKEY!!!  Write on your fucking page!

Sorry fellas. October needs me now....

Give me a topic and perhaps I will supply a short narrative for your enjoyment.

What do you think 5 major indicators are to determine if the economy is starting to improve.

Better still, what are the 5 indicators that a quitter is beginning to plan their own cave... we all know that this planning stage does happen, and vets sure as hell can see it coming if they pay attention.

Ooohhh, this could be a lively discussion. I'll throw in my two cents, but we need a dollar.

I don't believe in a planned cave. I have strung together 100+ days in the past and I have caved on an absolute whim. So, I will tell you how I came to buy a 25 cent special Grizzly Long Cut Straight from a 7-11 clerk after he couldn't give me directions to a swimming pool located less than two blocks from his store....

1) I distanced myself from my support network. My nicotine cessation group had a one month "hoorah for us" Chinese dinner celebration. It was great. We all exchanged contact information and I intentionally gave the wrong phone number because I was ready to do this thing on my own. I was one of only two people who hadn't caved during the first 30 days in class.

2) I did not have a forum to vent my frustrations. I often found myself blaming my wife (then girlfriend) for things that stemmed from my own behavior. I had no fuse with my students. My rage was pent up and growing.

3) I grew extremely complacent with my quit. I had a little 30 day calendar and 30 stickers that I could place for every day I remained quit. I hung that on my fridge with the same pride JpCrew pinned up his 2.3 miracle semester Junior year in HS. After that, I stopped keeping track with stickers. After two months, I lost track in my head and soon after I just stopped thinking about my quit altogether. Why think about it if you are quit, right? I owned that shit.

4) When my wife asked me how my quit was going, I would start to feel a bit irritated. What does it have to do with her? I came to resent her probing into my personal struggle and eventually convinced myself that she was why I had quit. I forgot the personal moment when I declared, "I choose to control my future" as I tossed my last tin the garbage in front of my quit group. My addiction took over and changed that to "My wife chooses to control my future".

5) The big shabang. Intense moment of stress piled on top of a craving right in front of a 25 cent special rack and I had no support, tons of pent up frustrations, no pride in my own quit, and a girlfriend constantly telling me what to do. One won't hurt?

CAVING IS NOT AN OPTION! You can never have just one.

[Colonel_No_Cope]

SMOKEY!!!  Write on your fucking page!

Sorry fellas. October needs me now....

Give me a topic and perhaps I will supply a short narrative for your enjoyment.

What do you think 5 major indicators are to determine if the economy is starting to improve.

Better still, what are the 5 indicators that a quitter is beginning to plan their own cave... we all know that this planning stage does happen, and vets sure as hell can see it coming if they pay attention.

[JpCrew]

SMOKEY!!!  Write on your fucking page!

Sorry fellas. October needs me now....

Give me a topic and perhaps I will supply a short narrative for your enjoyment.

What do you think 5 major indicators are to determine if the economy is starting to improve.

[Smokeyg]

SMOKEY!!! Write on your fucking page!

Sorry fellas. October needs me now....

Give me a topic and perhaps I will supply a short narrative for your enjoyment.

[RoyJester]

SMOKEY!!! Write on your fucking page!

[Skoal Monster]

Greetings from Aviemore, Scotland

new pictures posted - including my buttcrack as pointed out by the kid....

follow the link below my signature.

That is one bad ass trip. Thanks for sharing. Very cool.

Smokey, I hear Hagis makes you a sex maniac. Any thoughts?

I've only eaten Hagis once on my trip. YES.

I attended a Highland Games festival (a bunch of Scotish guys doing Scotish things in Kilts) and I signed up for the Hagis eating competition. Mainly for the pictures. Unfortunately, they forgot to cook the hagis and it never occured. It was a flacid evening. But I chuckle when I think what could have been....

Cobblestone vs Ass? sounds mildly painful yet ....... oh, glad Scottish mum didn't put you under her car, I'd miss your wit.But your newly found fascination with cows may be illegal in most of the States.Perhaps only scottish cows whisper sweet nothings to you? Your blog is awesome.
Hope your enjoying the trip.

[Smokeyg]

Greetings from Aviemore, Scotland

new pictures posted - including my buttcrack as pointed out by the kid....

follow the link below my signature.

That is one bad ass trip. Thanks for sharing. Very cool.

Smokey, I hear Hagis makes you a sex maniac. Any thoughts?

I've only eaten Hagis once on my trip. YES.

I attended a Highland Games festival (a bunch of Scotish guys doing Scotish things in Kilts) and I signed up for the Hagis eating competition. Mainly for the pictures. Unfortunately, they forgot to cook the hagis and it never occured. It was a flacid evening. But I chuckle when I think what could have been....

[Skoal Monster]

Greetings from Aviemore, Scotland

new pictures posted - including my buttcrack as pointed out by the kid....

follow the link below my signature.

That is one bad ass trip. Thanks for sharing. Very cool.

Smokey, I hear Hagis makes you a sex maniac. Any thoughts?

[Ricko]

Greetings from Aviemore, Scotland

new pictures posted - including my buttcrack as pointed out by the kid....

follow the link below my signature.

That is one bad ass trip. Thanks for sharing. Very cool.

[Smokeyg]

Greetings from Aviemore, Scotland

new pictures posted - including my buttcrack as pointed out by the kid....

follow the link below my signature.

[wildcat99]

What the fuck are you doing in Norway, man. Seriously... I mean, I can't really read all the details right now because I had too many beers tonight and can't hardly see my keyboard... fuck, shit--i just dumped a full beer. Dammit... your fault here Smokes :wacko: ...

Um, no--but, really... are you in hiding or something? What the fuck did you do man? Why Norway? Have you ever looked into Maui? That place is pretty solid. $7 for a glass of orange juice, you have to mortgage a beer and a bunch of half nekkid chics shakin their asses with coca-NUTS on their titties 'boob' .

I wil apologize tomorrow for this worthless post. Bike safely in Norway, Lance.