Worktowin's road to winning

[pab1964]

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. ❤

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

[Stranger999]

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. ❤

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!

[Dagranger]

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. ❤

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 won't stop is I don't think I could answer the text I'm sure I would get from you.....that is real accountability. Thank you.

[ChickDip]

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. ❤

[Sportsfan231]

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.

[worktowin]

Could have just as easily been me or you....

You know, Pab, these thoughts hit me frequently. It almost was you. It almost was me. Nicotine took my grandfather (colon cancer at around 78) and my dad (heart attack at 52). When I first quit, the guilt really weighed on me... How selfish I was and how stupid I was... And did I quit soon enough? But you and I heard the warning bells and we listened.

Addiction is part of who I am. It is part of who we are. I have managed this aspect of my personality as well as I believe I can, thanks to the great men and women on KTC. I cannot change the past. I cannot control the future. But today I quit with the bad ass quitters of KTC.

[pab1964]

Could have just as easily been me or you....

[ChristopherJ]

Nicotine will take take take, until there is nothing left. Very sorry about your friend Michael.

[Sportsfan231]

Fuck. Nicotine.

^^^ This.

100%

Well said WtW. Short and sweet and right to the point!

'do it'

[rdad]

Fuck. Nicotine.

^^^ This.

100%

Well said WtW. Short and sweet and right to the point!

[AppleJack]

Fuck. Nicotine.

^^^ This.

100%

[ChickDip]

3rd friend in 1 year that nicotine is about to claim. I'm 45 years old... no matter how much denial we try to employ, these odds are almost impossible without a toxic poison killing them. RIP Todd (Traumagnet), Jamie, and I'm praying for peace for Shannon and his family.

Fuck. Nicotine. This post is from his wife...

For those close friends and family who haven't already heard. Shannon is back in the hospital as of Thursday evening. I called paramedics when he started having trouble breathing only a few hours after coming home. New scan shows pneumonia. We spent yesterday dicussing options and decided together on Hospice care at home. He will remain in the hospital through the weekend as things are delivered and set up. This is the hardest thing a person can ever imagine. Please keep us in prayer and much love to those who are grieving with us.

I have no words ❤?❤ prayers up.

[worktowin]

3rd friend in 1 year that nicotine is about to claim. I'm 45 years old... no matter how much denial we try to employ, these odds are almost impossible without a toxic poison killing them. RIP Todd (Traumagnet), Jamie, and I'm praying for peace for Shannon and his family.

Fuck. Nicotine. This post is from his wife...

For those close friends and family who haven't already heard. Shannon is back in the hospital as of Thursday evening. I called paramedics when he started having trouble breathing only a few hours after coming home. New scan shows pneumonia. We spent yesterday dicussing options and decided together on Hospice care at home. He will remain in the hospital through the weekend as things are delivered and set up. This is the hardest thing a person can ever imagine. Please keep us in prayer and much love to those who are grieving with us.

[ChristopherJ]

A guy I went to high school with just died. Huge guy. He chewed and drank. A lot. I've seen pictures of him recently sitting in a wheelchair with a fucking oxygen mask on and a catheter Hanging off the wheelchair, and he is twirling his precious Copenhagen can in his fingers like acfidget spinner.

His daughter was driving him around and he stopped breathing. Pulled in to the local chevy dealer and they hauled him out of the car and did CPR in the parking lot, where he died.

My class was 230 people. 2 more are fighting jaw cancer. In a brutal painful disfiguring way. It isn't a coincidence that they all looked like hamsters with so much chew shoved in their mouths.

Rough living. Easy dying.

? sad. thankful for this place and you.

Damn......Just........Damn

Yet another reason I love this place... motivation everywhere you look.

freedom

May this person rest in peace. And moreover, may we be thankful for each other...working to save each other's lives every damn day; so that hopefully, this does not become our fate.

It does give us a shock when we realize as we look at others, that we could still be right there with them, IF we had not come to our own senses and realize what we were doing to ourselves.

It makes us glad we have found that way, the path to making our self better, making our self healthy both physically and mentally as we live life free of the poison.

And for one, life is so much better without it.

Condolences, may your friend be at peace and his family move on with his good memory.

Thank you for sharing the news, it helps us all remain quit!

Staying quit, posting our promise lessens our chances of that ever happening.

SOrry about your classmate Michael. The nic bitch had her claws into him deep. Too many go that way, but it seems your small community has been hit hard.

[Smeds]

A guy I went to high school with just died. Huge guy. He chewed and drank. A lot. I've seen pictures of him recently sitting in a wheelchair with a fucking oxygen mask on and a catheter Hanging off the wheelchair, and he is twirling his precious Copenhagen can in his fingers like acfidget spinner.

His daughter was driving him around and he stopped breathing. Pulled in to the local chevy dealer and they hauled him out of the car and did CPR in the parking lot, where he died.

My class was 230 people. 2 more are fighting jaw cancer. In a brutal painful disfiguring way. It isn't a coincidence that they all looked like hamsters with so much chew shoved in their mouths.

Rough living. Easy dying.

? sad. thankful for this place and you.

Damn......Just........Damn

Yet another reason I love this place... motivation everywhere you look.

freedom

May this person rest in peace. And moreover, may we be thankful for each other...working to save each other's lives every damn day; so that hopefully, this does not become our fate.

It does give us a shock when we realize as we look at others, that we could still be right there with them, IF we had not come to our own senses and realize what we were doing to ourselves.

It makes us glad we have found that way, the path to making our self better, making our self healthy both physically and mentally as we live life free of the poison.

And for one, life is so much better without it.

Condolences, may your friend be at peace and his family move on with his good memory.

Thank you for sharing the news, it helps us all remain quit!

Staying quit, posting our promise lessens our chances of that ever happening.