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[Kiwifruit]

Beer make petrol look cheap. 

Bottled water makes petrol look cheap.

[grog]

Coming up a month soon, neither of us bought or smoked cigarettes. I cant believe it really. I kept looking for ash tray while having a beer, not entered my head now. Even removed the ash tray from 14 😂

[Rynglieder]

Well done.

I was getting through well over 20 a day when I was working. My consumption has now dropped to 6-10 per day and frustratingly I feel worse now than before, my bad behavior is now catching up with me.

A quick calculation (20 x 365 x 40) suggests that I have got through well over a quater of a million cigarettes in my lifteime and over the last few months I have been suffering severe shortness of breath. I've been poked and prodded and scanned and it looks like a toss up between COPD or the onset of asthma, but I have been prescribed an inhalor which is now giving relief.*

I'll probably let them go during the course of this year, but I still look forward to those few times in the day when I take a few minuites away from everything with a smoke and a coffee - the Nicotine can probably be replaced or dispensed with but what else do you do to fill those quiet "reward" moments?

*The gadget now referred to as "Vlad The Inhalor"

[KiwiCol]

Coming up a month soon, neither of us bought or smoked cigarettes. I cant believe it really. I kept looking for ash tray while having a beer, not entered my head now. Even removed the ash tray from 14 😂

That's bloody awesome Grog!!  Well done to you & Mrs Grog.  You have done the hard part, it just gets easier from here, there will still be the odd time when something crops up & you reach for a fag, but it'll only last a few seconds (that crave) and it'll be gone, another stimulus situation defused.  You get them all done in the end & you don't ever think geez I'd love a fag.  You have to just remind yourself, there is no such thing as having just 1 smoke, if you did have 1, it puts your physiology right back to day 1 with all those cravings. You've done the hard bit, keep at it mate. 

[Eric GSX1400K3]

Well done Grog and Mrs Grog, shows you both have great willpower.

[Kiwifruit]

Congratulations to you both, you've cracked it.
No looking back now....... 

[VladTepes]

*The gadget now referred to as "Vlad The Inhalor"

* VladTepes approves