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Share your quitting journey

It says you can site email all your friends at once but when I try to do it

JonesCarpeDiem
Member
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‎01-13-2009 05:12 AM
It says there is a limit of 100.

Ok , So

The reason I wanted to email all my site friends was because I have been here quite awhile and many of the people who have been my friends the longest are no longer here nor participating.

Does this mean they lost their quits?

Lost their internet access?

Lost their minds?

Stopped wearing loose socks?


WTF?


I want to know
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barbara42
Member
‎01-13-2009 05:15 AM
heck Dale, i do not know, my socks continue to be loose and i do hope no one has lost their quit, as you know, if they did, they did not lose any thing, they simply gave it up peace
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debbie53
Member
‎01-13-2009 05:19 AM
Loose socks here! LOL You crack me up sometimes!
Congratulations on making it so far. 3 years is a great milestone!!!!! Be proud!
Me
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JonesCarpeDiem
Member
‎01-13-2009 05:20 AM
Debbie, I am just starting my third year.

(but they do come easier now.)

LOL


dale
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debbie53
Member
‎01-13-2009 05:22 AM
OK, then CONGRATULATIONS on TWO (2) FULL years and the beginning of three! Stay sweet and stay funny!
Me
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JonesCarpeDiem
Member
‎01-13-2009 05:22 AM
buncha quitters
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JonesCarpeDiem
Member
‎01-13-2009 05:22 AM
You notice I never joined the pretty people group
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barbara42
Member
‎01-13-2009 05:28 AM
i did the same thing sandee and some of them came back, i felt like i abandoned them also, as for the pretty people group jonescarp, i did not join them either, what you say, we do not belong? ha! peace!
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JonesCarpeDiem
Member
‎01-13-2009 05:30 AM
Well, I know was addicted to the other site. They only allowed a personal page of 1000 words for unpaid members so it wasn't like here where your thoughts can stay on your own page to help people when you are not online. Thats the good thing about this site.

The other sites main page moved at the speed of light. I could respond to 20 threads showing at the same time not 3 as it is here, and I could actually stop people with the lightter in one hand and the smoke in the other because the main page moved so fast.

So there are good and bad points on all sites.

dale
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debbie53
Member
‎01-13-2009 06:12 AM
I have to strongly disagree here.....I doubt anyone is MINIMIZING the great job anyone here has done. Whether it be being successfully quit after only one attempt or 20!
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hwc
Member
‎01-13-2009 06:13 AM
They should feature you guys on this site to show people it is possible to quit with out relapseing!!!

All 45 million ex-smokers in the United States have quit smoking without relapsing. If they had relapsed, they wouldn't still be ex-smokers. So, of course it's possible.
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debbie53
Member
‎01-13-2009 06:18 AM
I wish like hell that had come to my mind first!!!!! BRAVO!!!!!
Me
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JonesCarpeDiem
Member
‎01-13-2009 06:20 AM
Well Michael,
I am sure like you say, there are those who have come and gone and I would bet that some of them too were able to quit one time and just moved on. I think thats great.
The reason I stay here and spent a year on the other site is because I see how difficult it is for many and I feell that if they could look at it differently they would have a better shot. I also believe that each time someone tries to quit and then goes back to smoking, its that much harder/ I think each quit can put a chink in your quitting armor which is your mind. I have seen it over and over.

No celeb, i just like to help because I think it is a good cause and time well spent.

dale
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JonesCarpeDiem
Member
‎01-13-2009 06:33 AM
I think anyone can try to quit one time.

I do.

But quitting is a difficult proposition for most because they have made it out to be that in their own mind.

Most are too flustered and frazzled to think about anything but hour by hour, day by day, week by week .

And i think that is exactly what needs to be done with everyone's quit.

Every persons attempt is different but i think with the right attitude and understanding of why and when they

smoked, many more could do it the first time.


dale
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barbara42
Member
‎01-13-2009 06:48 AM
I do not know a lot of things and this is not my first time trying to quit, all i do know is that this is my first time in quitting, so there for, i am a winner in that i do not smoke, my opinion peace!
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denise6
Member
‎01-13-2009 06:52 AM
hwc.. did you just end the great relapse debate?

Michael's comment
If they were featured on this site what a wonderful thing for new people to shoot for, the chance to claim the same fame!

I don't think people come here looking for fame, just support!!
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carole_
Member
‎01-13-2009 09:10 AM
I don't know about all that email stuff, sorry, I started deleted a couple of friends myself recently because they were gone or had no activity for months, ended up deleting two that I didn't mean to by accident, I still don't know how I did it.

While I got you though, I do have to ask if there is a way to turn up the volume to hear your songs better. Tried to listen to Stargazers the other day and put the volume up high on my desk speaker and put it up high on the playlist volume thingy....and could barely hear ya....okay, so WTH? Am I missing something?
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karen44
Member
‎01-13-2009 09:21 AM
I deleted people too that hadn't been here for quite awhile only to have them come back and feel awful about doing it. I was just thinking today about going through and seeing if people on my friends list were still active and should I delete them and decided not to. They might come back looking for a friend.

Carole...I have no idea how to help you with that unless the volume is low on everyones page and then it might be your volume control on the computer itself, not the speakers.
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patty17
Member
‎01-13-2009 03:15 PM
I'm sure if they were Your friends... they are STILL wearing Loose Socks!!!
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sylvie
Member
‎01-15-2009 05:54 AM
Hey, i am still here, not smoking....i come back once in a while, but i don't take the time anymore to help newbies....why? cause i am busier else where? well as a matter of fact; YES!! but i guess i was feeling redondant after a while...., the whole experience was....now don't get mad anyone....i am just being honest out loud to myself, and writing while doing so.....
so...i will have to rethinck my position here...and see if i can be of anyhelp to anyone.....and if i have thanked enough the ones who were there for me.... thanks jonescarp, good post! (as always, lol)
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About the Author
Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.