FROM
BOO & SPIKE
HENRY & LUCY
May you & yours have a snuggly, safe, happy, and enlightening 02005. We need a new year, don't we?
To celebrate, visit the Carnival of the Dogs, the Carnival of the Cats, and Friday Ark.
I never make New Year resolutions, but this year I am, and I announce it here to make it real: as of tomorrow, next year, I am a non-smoker.
Wish me luck (or perseverance, or determination, or whatever it takes.)
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Good luck with giving up smoking.
Thinking of you.
Happy New Year from Wales
Posted by: Michael Nobbs | 31 December 2004 at 02:54 AM
Good luck on giving up smoking. The one and only time I tried to quit smoking I succeeded. 13 years ago. I still want to smoke but I don't. You can quit. I'm proof.
Posted by: Sarpy Sam | 31 December 2004 at 04:44 AM
A very happy new year to you too! :)
Posted by: Lynn | 31 December 2004 at 06:02 AM
Good luck! I quit over a year ago, SB, and it was the best thing I ever did for myself. Ever. I smoked nearly 30 years - was 2 pack a day for most of that time. I'll be in the background here cheering you on. You CAN do this. I promise. The best part of all, SB, is how much BETTER I feel physically (and so will YOU)!
Posted by: deb | 31 December 2004 at 07:31 AM
Hey even i want to quit smoking. I ll do this along with you. Let's see who wins.
All the best. May GOD be with you.
Sidharth Varma
Posted by: Sidharth Varma | 31 December 2004 at 08:13 AM
Good luck!!!
Do you like apples? That's one thing I did - ate an apple every time I craved a smoke. Two other things that worked for me (but may not for you): I convinced myself that that three to four days of lightheadedness and extreme craving were fun, a kind of inside-out drug high; plus, I told myself I wasn't really quitting, just taking a long break from smoking to see if I could do it. I still sometimes puff on a cigar - maybe two or three times a year, tops. For me, that all-or-nothing pressure, the feeling that I can never have another smoke as long as I live, always induced despair, precipitating backsliding. Better not to have anything to backslide from! But everyone's different.
Posted by: Dave | 31 December 2004 at 10:06 AM
And a most wonderous New Year to you!
I actually also quite smoking -- for real about 10 years ago, and before that for all practical purposes about 24 years ago. You CAN DO IT -- do it for Boo, Spike, Henry and Lucy!
Posted by: Ken | 31 December 2004 at 11:01 AM
Good luck, and I will be thinking good things for you.
Happy New Year! :D
Posted by: Kim | 31 December 2004 at 11:16 AM
Thank you all for your good wishes --
This should be a challenge easily met. Years ago I was a 2-pack-a-day smoker, then quit except for travel -- then an off-and-on smoker -- and now, for about a year, I've been smoking four or five a day.
This timing is excellent -- today is cold and blizzardy, no day to be sitting in the garden, wrapped against the weather, doing something that's not good for me.
Three cigarettes to go.
Posted by: SB | 31 December 2004 at 11:29 AM
Good luck with giving up smoking. If you haven't already, please get a copy of Allen Carr's The Easy Way to Give Up Smoking -- it's just incredible. I stopped smoking the same day I read it, haven't had one since (five years!!), and I was always the militant smoker who would never give up.
Happy New Year!
Posted by: Somewhat | 31 December 2004 at 01:06 PM
Happy New Year Sharon!!! Hopefully the new year will be a lot better for you.
Posted by: Cathy | 31 December 2004 at 08:33 PM
That's great! It's always inspiring to see the support for people who wants to quit smoking. I have been an ex-smoker myself for 15 years. That is why I know exactly how it feels and also how to deal with the withdrawal symptoms and the psychological aspect of it.
I now publish a newsletter to help people quit smoking with ease without the discomfort of cravings.
It is at:
http://www.easyquitsmokingsecrets.com/
Feel free to subscribe to it,
All the best to attaining a smoke-free life!
Posted by: Tony James | 03 April 2006 at 11:50 AM