BF, congratulations on three SOLID weeks of smoberity.  At first I thought this was
spam but I was wrong.  Sorry, anc CONGRATULATIONS

BeaFor...@msn.com penned.wrote.stated:
: Well lets say I am nicotine free. I am 52 years old, have been smoking
: nearly my entire life and never gone this long without a nicotine fix.

:  I have tried gum, patches, anti-depressent drugs and group therapy. I
: had been able to quit as long as I took the patches or drugs and then
: went right back to smoking. Then I saw an ad for some stop smoking
: drug, Chantix I think, where it showed the nicotine receptors as
: little gremlin type creatures who act up when they don't get their
: nicotine.

:  I did some further research into nicotine cessation programs and
: found out they were little better than placebo. I devised a program
: that I thought would work for me. My intentions were not to quit but
: to cut down the number of cigarettes I smoked. I believed that the
: cigarettes were finally taking their toll and if I cut down, at least
: I would be delaying my demise.

:  So, my plan worked this way: First I applied the step one nicotine
: patch. I did not smoke with the patch on because previous attempts had
: met with some heart palpitations. I left the step one patch on for as
: long as I could while remaining smoke free. After a couple of days,
: when the urge to smoke got to be to much I applied a step two patch. I
: figured that I was battleing the receptor gremlins and maybe I could
: kill one or two at a time. After the step two patch stoped working and
: the urge to smoke became just too much, I bought a pack of cigaretts.
: When I smoked I tried to make them last as long as possible by
: increasing the time between smokes and smoking just part of the
: cigarette. I smoked just enough to quite the gremlins but not enough
: to create new ones or revive the ones I had knocked out. After the
: pack was gone and the nicotine withdraw became unbearable, I went to
: step one and repeated the cycle.

:  I went through the cycle six times in ten weeks. The cycles grew
: longer and I could feel the gremlins getting weaker. Then one day the
: step two patch fell off and I decided I had the upper hand and could
: now go cold turkey. I drank alot of water and sucked on lots of hard
: candy, but today I have gone longer than I ever have without nicotine
: or without drugs. I am still batteling the gremlins, but I am slowly
: winning. The battle is not easy and I am not getting any younger, so I
: figure this is the last time I want to do this and that is plenty of
: motivation.

:  I know that I am nicotine free for a realitively short time, but it
: is the longest for me and for the first time I really think I can do
: it. So fuck the tobacco companies, you get no more of my money.

: I have been quit for 3 Weeks, 6 Days, 6 hours, 13 minutes and 54
: seconds (27 days). I have saved $92.67 by not smoking 545 cigarettes.
: I have saved 1 Day, 21 hours and 25 minutes of my life. My Quit Date:
: 4/11/2008 7:32 AM