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I'm throwing my 133,420 unsmoked cigarettes onto the bonfire!

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TACO TUESDAY BONFIRE 5/13/25

Welcome to the self serve Taco Tuesday Bonfire. Yum!!! It’s toss your own unsmokeds and create your own tacos with all the fixings you can ask for. 🌮🔥 Sven has concocted some Yummy refreshments to go with your tacos. So enjoy the night!!! For those new this fire was started by our own sweet 😇Q-Angel Mary Merrey(tilletoiler) long ago as place for quitters toss unsmoked cigarettes and celebrate being quit. This is also a place where you can unload your burdens and just have fun. Find Mary’s...

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Since the bonfire is out for yesterday (gotta keep wildfires in mind) I will dump my 280 cigs in the dumpster.

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Thought for today

Tuesday Smile

Break the cycle of serial quitting!

Excellent repost!
KTQ
Cara
D6999

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1552 Days Quit

If you hate the words 'serial quitter', use your hatred of the term 'serial quitter' to your advantage then and break the cycle. From what I've seen over the 4 years 3 months I've been here, I've no doubt at all that is much harder and soul destroying to be caught in the cycle of relapse hell... Show more

Good morning all
Happy Tuesday to you!
Up and going for the day today. Off to my office for the day yet again and I have to stop and get cat meds after work. Smoking saying NO to that today. I want to keep moving along the Freedom Road kicking ash as I go. Who will join me today????
Have a great day
Cara
D6999

4Y 0M
Life Saved
$103,935
Money Saved
188,973
Unsmoked

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Hey there Mysticcat, thanks for lighting the Bonfire. I'm dumping in 121,425 unsmokeds tonight. Enjoy another wonderful smoke free evening everyone!

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I'm throwing my 85,680 unsmoked cigarettes onto the bonfire!

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I'm throwing my 3,479 unsmoked cigarettes onto the bonfire!

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I'm throwing my 133,400 unsmoked cigarettes onto the bonfire!

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Monday Night Bonfire 5/12/25

Welcome to the self serve Monday Night bonfire. For those new this fire was started by our own sweet 😇Q-Angel Mary Merrey(tilletoiler) long ago as place for quitters toss unsmoked cigarettes and celebrate being quit. This is also a place where you can unload your burdens and just have fun. Find Mary’s story and the we bonfire Brigade here. purplkoala.coolpage.biz/tillietoiler/bonfire_histo… This magical place is known as 🏝Q island. A place where your favorite foods calorie free;...

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Thought for Today

Monday Smile

Repost:  Fighting the Urges or Accepting Them?

Another excellent post by Eric 7704.

I found when I accepted that craves were my body healing I felt better.  Craves are a suggestion not a command and each time you say no, you gain back a bit more power.  It does not seem so at the beginning, but the craves do lessen and for a long long time, a crave for me comes out of the blue with a suggestion - I may be driving and see someone smoking and think I should have a smoke - I dismiss it with - No thanks, I do not smoke anymore.  Done.
Quitting is doable.
Take smoking off the table as an option in your life.
KTQ
Cara
D6998
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REPOST:
Fighting The Urges or Accepting Them?
From Eric7704 on 11/4/2009 3:30:45 PM

Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water,
Yet nothing can better overcome the hard and strong,
For they can neither control nor do away with it.

The soft overcomes the hard,
The yielding overcomes the strong;

Just as a sapless tree will split and decay
So an inflexible force will meet defeat;
The hard and mighty lie beneath the ground
While the tender and weak dance on the breeze above.

~~Tao Te Ching

I used to believe that I was too weak to quit smoking. That I didn't have enough willpower to accomplish what seemed impossible and I had many failed quit attempts to validate this. For I have tried to quit so many different times and so many different ways that I had simply lost count, but while they may have differed in time and approaches. They all gave me the same answer. That I didn't have the strength to quit.

A lot of us don't feel that we are strong enough to free ourselves from this addiction. That we simply don't have enough willpower to overcome the urges when we first quit. And most of us have the memories of past quit attempts to witness to this, only to validate what we already believe. That addiction is stronger than us.

But what would happen if we stopped trying to be stronger than our addiction? After all, isn't this really what we have tried to do whenever we quit before? How many of us have quit smoking before, only to find ourselves later on down the road trying to find a compromise with the thinking that we would only smoke when this or that happened or during a certain time of day or an event? Then to only find ourselves back to square one with the added burden of having the belief that once again addiction has proved itself stronger than we are.

I used to say that I was powerless over smoking, yet my actions said otherwise. For I always tried to find a compromise after quitting. Carl Jung once said, and Einstein said something similar that "We cannot solve a problem on the same level of consciousness that created the problem." And yet, that is exactly what I let my junkie thinking do. Try to find a solution within the problem. That will always fail and in that was I acting insane. For again, Einstein defined insanity of doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result.

And often times when we attempt to quit smoking. We tell ourselves that this time we're going to muster up as much willpower that we can find and build up these walls for protection against the craves and urges that may come up. As soon as we feel a crave, we're going to fight it off and defeat it and this time we're going to win this battle. And maybe we do win the battle, but what about the "war"?

Repost: Fighting the Urges or Accepting Them?

Another excellent post by Eric 7704.

I found when I accepted that craves were my body healing I felt better. Craves are a suggestion not a command and each time you say no, you gain back a bit more power. It does not seem so at the beginning, but the craves do lessen and for a long long time, a crave for me comes out of the blue with a suggestion - I may be driving and see someone smoking and think I should have a smoke - I dismiss it with - No... Show more

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Good morning all
Happy Monday to you!!!!

I owe, I owe, in to work I go. 2 weeks left till I retire - 9 days of work. No smoking here today. saying NO to smoking and keeping to my path along the Freedom Road. I offer my hand to the next winning quitter joining me kicking ash to the curb today.
Have a great day
Cara
D6998

4Y 0M
Life Saved
$103,920
Money Saved
188,946
Unsmoked

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Good morning. 4:57am. Been up for a hot minute. Just couldn't sleep. Nothing unusual there. Saying NOPE, committing to never smoking again! No way!<br /><br />Yesterday was a lazy day. Spent a good chunk of my day on ancestry while the SO tinkered with a Lego set. Hard to watch him struggle with a simple kit. I think his cognitive decline is getting worse. Still trying to keep him engaged in projects. <br /><br />Well before I left Murfreesboro I had painted all the baseboards in the house. After having the flooring done here I have some seriously scuffed ones. I think since it's supposed to rain I will touch them up!<br /><br />Y'all have a fantastic day. Please remember to be nice be kind today.

Good morning. 4:57am. Been up for a hot minute. Just couldn't sleep. Nothing unusual there. Saying NOPE, committing to never smoking again! No way!

Yesterday was a lazy day. Spent a good chunk of my day on ancestry while the SO tinkered with a Lego set. Hard to watch him struggle with a simple kit. I think his cognitive decline is getting worse. Still trying to keep him engaged in projects.

Well before I left Murfreesboro I had painted all the baseboards in the house. After having the flooring done... Show more

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I'm throwing my 3,472 unsmoked cigarettes onto the bonfire!

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I'm throwing my 85,640 unsmoked cigarettes onto the bonfire!

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I'm throwing my 133,380 unsmoked cigarettes onto the bonfire!

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