Michael congrats on 17th floor - thank you. you are the reason I made it this far, and a lot of others can say the same. one of these days were going to meet up.
Congrats Michael on 1700 days quit. Thank you for your support and all you do around here for the sake of the quit and choosing health and life. â¤
Michael I hope I'm not too late to join the party on the 17th floor. No one has done more to reach out to me and let me know that this site is a brotherhood....or sisterhood, with real people offering real support. Like a lot of long time posters the thought of stopping posting has crossed my mind from time to time, and a big reason I don't think I could answer the text I'm sure I would get from you.....that is real accountability. Thank you.
As long as we both stay quit you will always be about 1000 days ahead of me. I can't thank you enough for helping me brother. :)
Congrats on 17x HOF!
Well you damned ole millennial hope you have a great eclipse weekend! Congratulations on the 17 floor
Yeah buddy! A most excellent number m'man!
Well done brother!
Congrats to one of the BAQs on this site! Thank you for all you do here!
Way to lead Michael. Thank you for all your support. You are a fucking BADASS!
Worktowin 1,700!!!
Killer great day. Like, perfection! Napster, my basset hound that rules this house, decided to wake up early this morning. So at 530am I let him out and sat on the couch and logged in to Facebook for a quick stroll through other people's lives. What do I see... a quitter that I text with almost daily, Weedsta, checked into a hotel 3 blocks from my house last night! So, I reach out to him, and he was meeting 2 other quitters from April 17 (4 years behind my own group) for breakfast at 700, and I met up with them. Weedsta, KitKat, RandyH and I spent about an hour and a half together. What a great experience... and how rewarding to spend some time with guys that are on a journey to greatness. Thanks for the invite guys... you are really gonna like where you are headed.
From there, I went to the gym and kicked and punched some bags for a while, then came home and picked up Mrs. Worktowin and Mom of Worktowin at her place and took them to a cool botanical garden tour, then for some BBQ. And I'm not talking about North Carolina, or Memphis, or Texas (yeah, GDubya... that dig is for you) BBQ. I'm talking about real, salt of the earth, Kansas City kick ass BBQ. The kind that makes your eyes roll back in your head good. That stuff.
Came home, and Mrs. Worktowin decided to thank me for my tenacity at 1,700 (video is for sale on several internet sites for $5.95...) and tonight we are headed out to a nice dinner. When we get home, I have several 200mLs of JW Blue that I've been saving from work, and I think one of them will get cracked open. Yum.
Guys... 1,700 days ago I was a complete mess. A basket case. Just like some of you guys reading this right now. I found KTC 16 days later, at the lowest point of my entire life. This place keeps me accountable to everyone of you, every day. I have not missed one day of posting, and I will not. Winning is so sweet after 25 years of losing. I remember seeing people with 500 days... 1,000 days... and thinking - how did they do this? How is it possible? I remember feeling like bursting out in tears or wanting to lock myself into a room alone. How are these people doing this? Well, we do it one day at a time. We post our promise, and we keep it. I did it today, and I'll do it tomorrow.
If you'd told me what life would be like at 1,700 days, I would have called you a liar. I wouldn't have believed it. When people said "it gets better" I would have stared blankly and nodded, just like those 3 awesome quitters this morning kind of did when I said it. But it is true. Greatness does exist without nicotine, but I don't believe it is possible to achieve with nicotine.
Thanks for the kind words today. You guys saved my life. See you tomorrow.