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Offline Done4Me

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Re: Day 16
« Reply #400 on: September 19, 2015, 10:02:00 AM »
You've touched a lot of lives here. Not just reaching out but always positive, uplifting. You deserve this day, the comma. Wear it well. You certainly deserve it.

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Re: Day 16
« Reply #399 on: September 19, 2015, 09:38:00 AM »
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Well done, W2W! Glad to see someone who spends most of his time on the site helping others earn the coveted comma!
Adding to what should be a fairly long list of congrats. You are one of the stalwart supporters on this site. Always dispensing common sense quit wisdom. Congratulations of the highest order to you, Sir!
Outstanding my friend. Your support during the early days of my quit as well as the quit knowledge passed on to so many on this site is truly remarkable. Onward to 2,000 Michael. Proud to quit with you EDD.
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Re: Day 16
« Reply #398 on: September 19, 2015, 08:51:00 AM »
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Well done, W2W! Glad to see someone who spends most of his time on the site helping others earn the coveted comma!
Adding to what should be a fairly long list of congrats. You are one of the stalwart supporters on this site. Always dispensing common sense quit wisdom. Congratulations of the highest order to you, Sir!

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Re: Day 16
« Reply #397 on: September 19, 2015, 08:34:00 AM »
Well done, W2W! Glad to see someone who spends most of his time on the site helping others earn the coveted comma!

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Re: Day 16
« Reply #396 on: September 19, 2015, 07:46:00 AM »
Your screan name says it all. You gotta work it to win it. Congrats on the grand. You must have quit dipping 100 days before I quit drinking.

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Re: Day 16
« Reply #395 on: September 19, 2015, 07:39:00 AM »
Everybody above echoes my own sentiments. Since I began my quit, no one has been more consistently supportive than you. And while many of us vets are hot and cold with our support of new quitters. You have managed to find time and make connections almost every day of your 1000. Truly amazing. You are going to get lots of kudos today. You should get 10 times the amount. Thank you Michael for being a leader here.

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Re: Day 16
« Reply #394 on: September 19, 2015, 12:47:00 AM »
Great job W2W! Thanks for always helping us newbies, it will never go unnoticed.

Many more 1000s coming...but One Day At A Time.

You rock and are one bad ass quitter!

We quit with you today.

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Re: Day 16
« Reply #393 on: September 18, 2015, 11:51:00 PM »
W2W you are the real deal! I try to read all your post , the quit knowledge is amazing! Damn proud to call you a friend! 1000 is awesome, don't stop on the intros you help so many, take time and reflect where you came from. You should be esstatic!
Tobacco is so addictive it took me a year after a massive heart attack, in which doctor confirmed caused from dipping to finally put a lid on the bitch! ODAAT EDD

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Re: Day 16
« Reply #392 on: September 18, 2015, 11:50:00 PM »
Congrats W2W! I am new here and you have helped me through some hard times already. The common sense wisdom is what I needed. B)B

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Re: Day 16
« Reply #391 on: September 18, 2015, 11:29:00 PM »
Congrats Michael! 1000 is incredible. You are a fine man and an exceptionally badass quitter. You were one of the first people to text me with support and then brought an entire posse to get me through some damn tough times. Twice I was on the brink and you brought me back. Thank you my friend and celebrate this awesome achievement. CJ.
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Re: Day 16
« Reply #390 on: September 18, 2015, 07:09:00 PM »
W2W, congrats on all your hard work reaching 1,000! The big comma. You are one bad ass quitter. Not sure I can say much more than that. Take this time as you reflect back on the last 1,000 days  remember the positive impact you've had on so many lives here. My own included. I owe no less than my quit to you  your friendship so thank you again for all the help  support you've given me.

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Re: Day 16
« Reply #389 on: September 18, 2015, 03:29:00 PM »
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I know this is a day early but I had to post while it was fresh in my mind what I wanted to say.

First I want to congratulate a bad ass quitter and great human being on 1,000 days quit, while not the end of the journey by any means it is a hard earned milestone.

On my first failed "attempt" back in May of 2013, the last person to contact me when I missed roll on my 3rd day was worktowin. It was a simple message but one that stuck with me for several months to come, he simply sent me a text that said "when your ready, i'll be here". Just a few months later while browsing the forums while still dipping the light bulb finally turned on, so I flushed my stash and posted my last day 1. I then texted worktowin and the rest for now is history. A sincere thank you to a guy that has become a friend and early on was huge quit mentor, w2w was about 200 days quit that day I made my choice and his promise that it would get better was all I held onto for awhile.... Let me tell you it does get better.

Thank you Michael for being my friend and quit brother. If you are new and reading this, read back through this guys intro because it's one of many blueprints here on KTC on how to jump in and get it right.
Since Jlud broke the seal here, I will chime in as well. Huge congrats to you w2w on your comma. I know of NO finer quitter on this site. You have inspired me with infinite quit wisdom that you bestow daily. Not just in my intro, but in every single quitter that comes through.

This site and my quit are exponentially better because of your presence here. Thank you.
"Fuck nicotine dude. You don't need it. And you don't want it. It didn't do a thing for you and you know it." - worktowin
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Re: Day 16
« Reply #388 on: September 18, 2015, 03:23:00 PM »
I know this is a day early but I had to post while it was fresh in my mind what I wanted to say.

First I want to congratulate a bad ass quitter and great human being on 1,000 days quit, while not the end of the journey by any means it is a hard earned milestone.

On my first failed "attempt" back in May of 2013, the last person to contact me when I missed roll on my 3rd day was worktowin. It was a simple message but one that stuck with me for several months to come, he simply sent me a text that said "when your ready, i'll be here". Just a few months later while browsing the forums while still dipping the light bulb finally turned on, so I flushed my stash and posted my last day 1. I then texted worktowin and the rest for now is history. A sincere thank you to a guy that has become a friend and early on was huge quit mentor, w2w was about 200 days quit that day I made my choice and his promise that it would get better was all I held onto for awhile.... Let me tell you it does get better.

Thank you Michael for being my friend and quit brother. If you are new and reading this, read back through this guys intro because it's one of many blueprints here on KTC on how to jump in and get it right.

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Re: Day 16
« Reply #387 on: August 12, 2015, 09:19:00 PM »
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That's awesome fellows! I go in the tobacco store to get my fake, sometimes the olé nic brain says let's just get one can and I can actually laugh it off , all I can say it's a long ways from where I came from. I owe it all to this place! Quit on my brother's and sisters!
Did you find it weird to go into a tobacco store to get your fake? I think for the time I relied on fake I was jus so charged up about quitting that I didn't think twice about it. Since I stopped using fake a few months after quitting I haven't been back since.
Sorry mike just caught this. Not at all, where I've got my fix from for year's and it makes me walk tall when I get fake and the little fine ass chick works there keeps my eyes off the real shit! Quit on all you badasses, I'm definitely doing better less than a can a week of fake, I'm damn happy of that but looking forward to having nothing to rely on but will take what I'm giving for right now.
Tobacco is so addictive it took me a year after a massive heart attack, in which doctor confirmed caused from dipping to finally put a lid on the bitch! ODAAT EDD

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Re: Day 16
« Reply #386 on: August 09, 2015, 11:57:00 PM »
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959 days.

I have avoided convenience stores like the plague for 959 days. I remember around day 500 standing in the tobacco line at Walmart to buy some chicken or soap or whatever and almost being paralyzed staring at the Kodiak. I wasn't tempted. I certainly didn't cave. It was just a weird feeling. Well yesterday the gd printer at the pump decided to not work. So I went inside to get a copy. And there was that big display that I fed every day for 25 years... But this time I didn't feel a thing. Nothing. The guy in front of me even bought some skoal and still I didn't feel anything at all. I got my receipt and I left.

I post every day. I still post on a few intros, but I'm mostly just enjoying life now. I know the new members on this site are going thru hell right now and thinking... This hell will never get better. I know, because I've been in those shoes. It does get better. One day at a time
Thanks for sharing that Michael. It must have been strange, in a positive way, to feel nothing. I know I am not there ( yet?). But I am very happy for you.
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