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Okay, I'm going to stop smoking and hopefully raise some money for the local kid's hospital in the process. If anyone would like to donate, please do so here.[^]
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Surely, the money you will save from not buying cigs should be enough to hit your fund-collecting goal in an year, maybe two years? 
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Well, I'll be donating what I save but any extra helps.
And the more I think about, it would be far quicker than that!
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Well done - and good luck! 
It's worth it in the long run: I wouldn't go back to it now.
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How long ago did you stop?
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Last cigarette on October 12th 2004.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Last cigarette on October 12th 2004.
I think that's long enough to be able to safely say that you've stopped!
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 Probably!
Once I'd taken the last nicorette patch off, I didn't miss 'em - except when my mother died - but even then I didn't go there, I'm glad to say.
Get yourself some dried fruit - it gives you something to do with your hands - and try to avoid places where you have a history of smoking while you are stopping. It should be easier now since there are so few places indoors where you can smoke anyway!
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Hmmm, the places where I tend to smoke the most would be my house and the pub. Neither are remotely avoidable (especially the pub!)
Having spent the last year losing a massive amount of weight, I'm extremely wary of using food as a substitute but I expect that a few tablet games will help me get through any sofa time.
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Forget all the little tricks. Simply smoke twice as much as usual, overdo it on purpose and build up a real aversion which you can use to get over any temptation to start again.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I quit over 10 years ago and I don't think I could go back even if I wanted to. It was very true for me that the smell of the smoke got to be very repugnant after I quit. I can't stand to be around people that smoke just because the smell is awful.
So, good for you.
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I have a similar thing with coffee - I had to give up caffeine about 12 years ago and I find the smell of coffee really horrible these days.
The smell of tea, on the other hand, is still very enticing.
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PeejayAdams wrote: coffee
Hmm... I have the same aversion. I find that the smell of coffee is also bad to me. Of course, I don't drink the stuff anyway. That and that awful Dihydrogen Monoxide. Deadly stuff.
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NotPolitcallyCorrect wrote: Of course, I don't drink the stuff anyway. That and that awful Dihydrogen Monoxide. Deadly stuff.
There are people who actually drink that?
Don't they have any idea what fish do in it?
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I quit over 20 years ago. It's stupid to smoke. I'll smoke the occasional cigar still, but cigarettes are just nasty. They stain your teeth and stink up everything you own. Nobody with a clean mouth wants to kiss a smoker either. So kudos for quitting.
Jeremy Falcon
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The worst is that you don't notice anymore how you stink. Some lady really was irritated when she took the seat behind me in a bus and I got up and sat someplace else.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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PeejayAdams wrote: I'm going to stop smoking
Good for you! Sounds like you've got your mind made up, which is the key thing in my opinion. I will have been cigarette free 20 years on November 23rd, though I still think about it way more than I should at this point.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Have Nagy stop drinking and you can pay for the whole thing together.
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I quit over a decade ago but I think it may have been too late, I still have the lung capacity of a gnat.
All the luck in the would, I would like to donate some will power but mine is all used up!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: I would like to donate some will power
"Will power" has never been the problem for me, it's "won't power" that I've always been short of!
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Hi All,
Ummm, the search to get out of the pub has been successful, I think!  . I found a company local to me sent them an email yesterday, was invited for an interview today. Start next Monday 
But Way'bleedin'Hay   I think!
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good luck.
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Maybe try and get of the Pub by Friday, Saturday latest, if you're careful Sunday last orders, okay but don't stay too long for the lock-in...
veni bibi saltavi
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