On 7/23/2013 7:49 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 23/07/2013 1:55 AM, Cheri wrote:
>
>>
>> Good for you, I've been off cigarettes for:
>>
>> Three years, seven months, three weeks, four days, 6 hours, 52 minutes
>> and 14 seconds. 39998 cigarettes not smoked, saving $10,999.27. Life
>> saved: 19 weeks, 5 days, 21 hours, 10 minutes.
>
> Three years and 23 days for me since I gave them up....having smoked on
> and off. I had previously given them up for 17 years and thought it was
> safe to tray smoking occasionally.
>
>>
>> But I got hooked on the nicotine lozenges for quite a while after
>> stopping cigarettes. That was a hard habit to break too, but I am
>> nicotine free and happy about it. Stay off of them!
>
> That it the problem with substitutes. You change one habit for another
> and then when you think you liked the old habit better you go back to
> it. It is better to sniff dirty ash trays or to hang out by the
> doorways where the smokers are coming back in after their power smokes
> and you get the chance to see ho bad you would smell if you joined them.
>
A neighbor came over the other day to look at an item I had for sale. I
met her at the door and warned her this is a smoking household. She
stepped in and took a deeeeeeeep breath! She said, "I quit smoking five
years ago, I'm living vicariously!" LOL Yet other non-smokers have
commented the house doesn't smell at all smokey. Go figure.

Jill