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Good evening WaynenMary, I hope all 8swell on this fine Saturday evening, thanks for lighting the Bonfire! I have 119,800 unsmokeds to dump in tonight. Enjoy another awesome smoke free evening everyone!

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I'm throwing my 3,024 unsmoked cigarettes onto the bonfire!

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Saturday March 8 self serve bonfire

Welcome to the BONFIRE on this beautiful Saturday Evening! It’s a self-serve bonfire so carefully throw your unsmoked nasties into the bonfire and head over to check out the many different diversions available on NOPE Island! We encourage you to toss any worries or problems you are experiencing tonight into the fire as well! 🔥 Everyone is welcome at the Bonfire! Whether you have 2, 20, 200, 20,000 or 200,000 stinkeroos, we want your unsmokeds to make this fire blaze high. We especially welcome...

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Repost: Before You Light That Cigarette

An excellent repost. Before you light up - read this and come for help. There is nothing a cigarette can do for you (except lie to get you hooked in again). Get the support you need. Get off the roller coaster of serial quitting, free yourself from the slavery of addiction - life truly is so much better when you take your power back.
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Repost:  Before You Light That Cigarette

An excellent repost.  Before you light up - read this and come for help.  There is nothing a cigarette can do for you (except lie to get you hooked in again).  Get the support you need.  Get off the roller coaster of serial quitting, free yourself from the slavery of addiction - life truly is so much better when you take your power back.
KTQ
Cara
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Before You Light That Cigarette
From Eric7704 on 11/5/2009 9:58:52 AM

I thought that maybe it might be a good idea to write something that can be copied and printed. Then anyone can carry it with them in case they get an urge to smoke.That way they can read it before that act on the urge. You can write your own, but I thought I'd write out a general version.
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(insert your name here), are you thinking about smoking a cigarette? Are you thinking that you're going to light that cigarette and all your problems are going to just wash away and all will be perfect with the world?

Before you light that cigarette (insert your name here), think it through. Right now, you're building a fantasy in your mind of what that cigarette will be like as you light it and start to smoke it, but really think about it. Do you really think that cigarette is going to live up to these great expectations that you're building up in your mind?

In past quits where you smoked again. Did that cigarette ever live up to those great expectations before or did it just cause you to fall back inot the grip of addiction?

Why would this cigarette be any different? A cigarette is a cigarette. It cannot be anything else but what it is. It cannot change. It cannot become a better cigarette. It cannot become a more compassionate cigarette. It cannot become a better friend than before. It can only be what it has always been and always will be.....your obstacle to FREEDOM!!

Even any illusion of relief or pleasure that you might feel while smoking that cigarette will most likely be as quickly ripped away after the last drag and you extinquish it, as it was there while you were smoking it.

Then what will you be left with? Regret? Anger? Dissapointment? Depression? An empty unfulfilled feeling and possibly a need for another one?

A cigarette will never fix the world. It will never make your day better. If anything, it will probably ruin that day and quite possibly the next day and so on.

(insert your name here), there may be times when you will have thoughts for a cigarette. There may be moments in life when things go bad and you may have a strong urge for a cigarette.

But think it through. While you may want "a cigarette", that is not the reality of smoking. It's not about smoking "a cigarette". It's about HAVING to smoke the tens of thousands that will follow. You couldn't control your smoking before and you won't be able to control you smoking now. You smoked because you HAD to smoke and if you smoke again it will be because you HAVE to smoke.

Nicotine is an addiction that can never be satisfied. There will always be a need for another cigarette.

There may be moments when you want a cigarette, but moments always pass. Always.

While you may have an occasional thought or urge to smoke in certain situations. That is infinately better than the constant NEED to smoke in any situation.

For as long as you DON'T smoke, your thoughts or urges to smoke will lessen and lessen, but a smoker's NEED to smoke will never lessen. If anything, as long as they smoke, the NEED will become greater.

So for today, you choose NOT to smoke.

KEEP CHOOSING FREEDOM (insert you name here)!!!!

Repost: Before You Light That Cigarette

An excellent repost. Before you light up - read this and come for help. There is nothing a cigarette can do for you (except lie to get you hooked in again). Get the support you need. Get off the roller coaster of serial quitting, free yourself from the slavery of addiction - life truly is so much better when you take your power back.
KTQ
Cara
D6933
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Good morning all
Happy Saturday to you!!!!!

Up finally for the day. Getting sleep in before the time change tonight lol. Here to pledge and run as I have grocery shopping to do. Smoking is not going to be part of my day today or any day thanks much. Saying NO to smoking and keeping walking along the Freedom Road. I offer my hand to the next winner joining me kicking ash to the curb.
Have a super Saturday.
Cara
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Good morning. It's 4:48am. It's 54° and cloudy in middle Tennessee this morning. No rain is expected and no sunshine either. High will be about 57°.

The daughter and hubby are going to be in town today. We pick up the U-haul this morning. Which will sit in my drive until we close on the house. We will be loading some today but most will hold until the 10th. We close on the 12th then head to Knoxville.

I am so ready to get this show on the road. It's stressful, can make you angry at times, but... Show more

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I'm throwing my 132,080 unsmoked cigarettes onto the bonfire!

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I'm throwing my 3,017 unsmoked cigarettes onto the bonfire!

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Only by Gods grace I'm throwing my 258,700 unsmoked cigarettes onto the bonfire! Thanks for hosting WaynenMary

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Hello there WaynenMary, TGIF! Thanks for lighting the Bonfire! I'm torching 119,775 unsmokeds on this fabulous Friday evening. Have another marvelous smoke free evening everyone!

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Friday March 7 Self Serve Bonfire

Welcome to the BONFIRE on this beautiful Friday Evening! It’s a self-serve bonfire so carefully throw your unsmoked nasties into the bonfire and head over to check out the many different diversions available on NOPE Island! We encourage you to toss any worries or problems you are experiencing tonight into the fire as well! 🔥 Everyone is welcome at the Bonfire! Whether you have 2, 20, 200, 20,000 or 200,000 stinkeroos, we want your unsmokeds to make this fire blaze high. We especially welcome...

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Friday Smile - this is my Hobbs

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Repost: One Bite at a Time

Another great Dave repost.
Have a good one.
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REPOST:
One Bite At A Time:
From Titotiger on 4/4/2007 11:36:42 AM
I remember when elephant jokes were popular. (Okay what wise guy said I should remember when dinosaur jokes were popular?) Some of the elephant jokes were pretty silly.

“How do you get 6 elephants into a Volkswagon?” You put 3 in the front & 3 in the back.

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Good morning all
Happy Friday and a huge TGIF!!!!!

Up and going for the day close to being on time wooo hoooo!!!! In my office today and I have a ton of paperwork to get done. That will be my day. Smoking is Not part of my day today or any day thanks much. Again saying NO to smoking and keeping moving forward along the Freedom Road. I offer my hand to the next winner joining me kicking ash to the curb today.
Have a fantastic Friday
Cara
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Good morning. It's 4:52am. I have been awake since 2:30 just being lazy and planning my day. Yesterday I said goodbye to my POD and won't see it again until the 17th. Still hard to believe I am leaving my little house. But so ready to get settled again.

Today I will be sending emails and communicating through portals looking for new health care providers. Yesterday cancelled services like lawn maintenance and HVAC. Still hard to believe I am really leaving.

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