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Originally Posted by DixieGal
Thanks for that link, Stitchy. I sent it to my sister. Will probably just make her angry. But she smokes like a chimney and will not tolerate any discussion regarding stopping. She looks like a mummy, like a smoked chicken, with that long time smoker's skin. And her husband chews tobacco, which is even grosser.
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That meter, along with the Usenet group alt.support.stop-smoking, was the best 'bio-feedback'device I've ever known. The meter sits as a little applet on the computer so you see it every time you sit down, and watching it grow just gives you sooooo much reinforcement not to smoke.
I smoked a pack and a half a day for 42 years, non-filtered menthol 'Kool,' and probably like most smokers, tried to quit a hundred different times. Now I do it like AA... One day at a time. I didn't 'quit.' I'm still a smoker, but one who hasn't smoked in almost 12 years, 10 months, 3 weeks, and two days ago. I won't smoke today. I pray I won't smoke tomorrow.
Stopping was much easier than 'staying stopped.'
Stitchawl