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GUS (Gave Up Smoking) is a community support diary for Kossacks in the midst of quitting smoking. Any supportive comments, suggestions or positive distractions are appreciated. If you are quitting or thinking of quitting, please -- join us!
You can also click the GUS tag to view all diary posts, or access the GUS Library at dKosopedia for a great list of stop-smoking links. Check it out!
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"The deuces are wild," observed the late MLB broadcaster Harry Caray when calling a two-out, two-strike, two-ball situation. According to my very handy Windows Quit Time meter, I have been off cigarettes for two months, two weeks, and two days.
For those of you who haven't yet checked out the Quit Time meter, it automatically calculates for you the time you have gone without a cigarette, the amount of money you have saved from not smoking, and an estimated number of days that you add back to your life upon quitting. It's a handy tool that has motivated me to resist the walk to the corner store (or the gas station) for a pack of perceived instant relief. In the past two-and-a-half months, I have saved almost $580 from the greedy clutches of Big Tobacco. Having been without work for much of the summer (and this year), that money has come in handy in keeping food and shelter for me and my two cats. Just like kicking out a free-loading roommate for taking my money and stinking up the joint. Joe Camel as a companion, my ass!
The pool is now open. I'm glad to be back after a month off. Believe me, I needed that time to get my head out of the computer (at least for the most part). My behavior had gotten bad, and I acted out in anger on someone who I formerly had a good online friendship with. So I gave myself a time-out, in order to reobserve the old and helpful maxim of "treating others as you would like to be treated." I won't be around here as much as I was in that first exciting month of the inception of GUS. But that's OK. There are over a hundred GUSsacks with experience to share. I'm glad to jot down a bit of my story, but I'd really like to hear yours, as well.
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