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FlatIronMike

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Dec 31, 2009, 9:29:03 AM12/31/09
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Well, it's Friday and time to line up for the last time and Conga!!!
May 2010 be a smoke free year for all of us!

Two years, ten months, two weeks, six days, 10 hours, 59 minutes and
27 seconds. 21089 cigarettes not smoked, saving $6,326.75. Life saved:
10 weeks, 3 days, 5 hours, 25 minutes.

FlatironMike

SteveS

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Dec 31, 2009, 9:41:30 AM12/31/09
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FlatIronMike <flatiro...@gmail.com> wrote in news:4780954e-206d-490e-
969e-256...@c34g2000yqn.googlegroups.com:

> Well, it's Friday and time to line up for the last time and Conga!!!
> May 2010 be a smoke free year for all of us!
>

Haven't run a meter in awhile but in honor of the end of 2009:

Seven years, five months, two weeks, six days, 11 hours, 40 minutes and 55
seconds. 81914 cigarettes not smoked, saving $16,383.17. Life saved: 40
weeks, 4 days, 10 hours, 10 minutes.

SteveS
OOF

PolarBear

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Dec 31, 2009, 9:52:59 AM12/31/09
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On Dec 31, 9:41 am, SteveS <inyo...@spamm.ers> wrote:
> FlatIronMike <flatironmike...@gmail.com> wrote in news:4780954e-206d-490e-
> 969e-25694a1bd...@c34g2000yqn.googlegroups.com:

>
> > Well, it's Friday and time to line up for the last time and Conga!!!
> > May 2010 be a smoke free year for all of us!
>
> Haven't run a meter in awhile but in honor of the end of 2009:
>
> Seven years, five months, two weeks, six days, 11 hours, 40 minutes and 55
> seconds. 81914 cigarettes not smoked, saving $16,383.17. Life saved: 40
> weeks, 4 days, 10 hours, 10 minutes.
>
> SteveS
> OOF

I love your meters Mike and SteveS.

mine is just a baby meter but considering that I nearly broke that
yesterday and almost left the smoke free kick ass train I think I
should be proud that I still have a meter: (don't know for how long
but I know for today I have one)

here it is:
HappyPolar Bear proudly announces: One month, three weeks, six days,
17 hours, 49 minutes and 34 seconds. 461 cigarettes not smoked, saving
$184.91..

Debbie

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Dec 31, 2009, 9:56:54 AM12/31/09
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It is Thursday here in Michigan. I don't have my meter any more,
but it would be 5 years, 11 months and something.
Debbie.. Rocker

SilentNight

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Dec 31, 2009, 10:10:08 AM12/31/09
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Count me in ... if I hadnt slipped in Aug, my meter would read 2 1/2
yrs...
but glad to be 2 weeks clean again. Here's to a long healthy quit.
Steve (SilentNight)

Two weeks, 25 minutes and 3 seconds. 350 cigarettes not smoked, saving
$105.13. Life saved: 1 day, 5 hours, 10 minutes.

Cindy

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Dec 31, 2009, 10:12:14 AM12/31/09
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Almost a DOF!!!!!


Cindy OF
One year, eleven months, four weeks, two days, 10 hours, 11 minutes and 3
seconds.
14608 cigarettes not smoked, saving $4,550.54. Life saved: 7 weeks, 1 day,
17 hours, 20 minutes.

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Gregory Baxter

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Dec 31, 2009, 10:18:36 AM12/31/09
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Haven't had a meter in a while but it goes something like this...

9 years, 8 months, 29 days and 3 hours give or take a minute or two...

GregB
Glad to be smokefree, one less problem on my plate (it's already full
enough).

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Wayne Baker

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Dec 31, 2009, 10:58:57 AM12/31/09
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FlatIronMike <flatiro...@gmail.com> wrote in news:4780954e-206d-490e-
969e-256...@c34g2000yqn.googlegroups.com:

> Well, it's Friday and time to line up for the last time and Conga!!!

Dancing into 2010 smoke-free !


---
Wayne Baker
Smoke Free: 3m 6d 1:58
Not Smoked: 2,816
$ Better Spent: $647.68

DavidL

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Dec 31, 2009, 11:33:25 AM12/31/09
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2 Years, 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 4 Days, 9 hours, 48 minutes and 22 seconds
(878 days) quit.
26,352 cigarettes unsmoked. $5,182.16 better spent.
2 Months, 4 Weeks, 2 Days and 12 hours life better lived.
My Quit Date: 8/6/2007 12:45 AM

SteveS

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Dec 31, 2009, 11:50:02 AM12/31/09
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PolarBear <carm...@hotmail.com> wrote in
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Yours is perhaps the most important one of all, proving yet again that
keeping the meter going is only accomplished by not putting a cigarette
into one's mouth.
Well done, get another day.
Have you been to the doc about your BP?
SteveS
OOF

msmomo2u

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Dec 31, 2009, 12:01:35 PM12/31/09
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Woo Hoo!!!

Two years, two weeks, one day, 51 minutes and 26 seconds. 14920
cigarettes not smoked, saving $3,207.95. Life saved: 7 weeks, 2 days,
19 hours, 20 minutes.

Suzie

Marvin The Paranoid Android

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Dec 31, 2009, 12:05:36 PM12/31/09
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I have been quit for 5 Years, 4 Months, 1 Week, 1 Day, 4 hours, 4
minutes and 52 seconds (1,956 days).
I have saved $10,172.07 by not smoking 25,430 cigarettes.
I have saved 2 Months, 3 Weeks, 6 Days, 7 hours and 10 minutes of my
life.
My Quit Date: 23/08/2004 8:00 AM

Yea!!!

Mike M

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Dec 31, 2009, 12:27:34 PM12/31/09
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Really close. Congrats

Mike M

On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:12:14 -0500, "Cindy" <cro...@maine.rr.com>
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Mike M

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Dec 31, 2009, 12:29:40 PM12/31/09
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Five years, two months, one week, three days, 2 hours, 29 minutes and
29 seconds. 56913 cigarettes not smoked, saving $15,651.45. Life
saved: 28 weeks, 1 day, 14 hours, 45 minutes.

Mike M


Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:29:03 -0800 (PST), FlatIronMike

Lynn Image Haven

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Dec 31, 2009, 1:52:57 PM12/31/09
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On Dec 31, 6:29 am, FlatIronMike <flatironmike...@gmail.com> wrote:
Well, it's Friday and time to line up for the last time and Conga!!! May
2010 be a smoke free year for all of us!

====================
SIX MONTHS 2 WEEKS & 3 DAYS```> FOUR DAYS IS NEW YEARS DAY BY 11PM

}i{LYNN}i{

~SMILES~

kestrel

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Dec 31, 2009, 2:41:09 PM12/31/09
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Here I am, Mike. I now have 12 years 1 month 1 week 4 days. When I
first arrived at AS3, all that time ago, I think I was a different
person. Still trailing the Lady Executive habits that had enabled me
to be successful in business. Sure, I missed all that, still do
sometimes. While quitting smoking was the first major change I made
after I retired, adopting Mrs. Mimi Katz was the second. I went down
to the Bide-A-Wee and checked out all the cats up for adoption. I
chose Mimi because she was not cute. She was a bit scrawny, as some
adolescent cats are. They called her a tortoiseshell domestic short
hair on her adoption papers. Well, I guess that's about it. But I
love her and I am so proud that she has never lived in a smoke-filled
home.

I still wake up around 5:00 a.m. every morning as I used to do when I
was working. It had gotten to be habit and I have never tried to
break it. Before I quit smoking the first thing I would do when I
woke up was have a cup of tea and a cigarette along with the NY
Times. I read all the newspapers and trade publications. I did
public relations for a large ad agency, so I had to know all the
reporters who wrote about the business. It was intense but fun and I
loved it. I had a sideline too, but since I don't practice that
anymore, I won't include it here. I'd like to start it up again
though, and if I do, I may announce that here. But I used to smoke
fiercely while I was practicing it before, so I don't know if I want
to risk it.

Now I spend most of my time reading and watching Netflix movies. I am
now reading one of the four gift books my son Chris gave me for
Christmas. It's called "Half Broke Horses" by Jeannette Walls. It's
an amazing book. The author calls it "A True Life Novel." In it she
seems to have channeled the life of her grandmother as a girl and a
young wife and mother in the southwest in the early 20th century.

I intend to toddle along into the next century with most of my good
habits intact and only one or two of the bad ones. Plus I have given
in to bouts of laziness. I was never lazy before; had too much to
do. But I think I spend way too much time at the computer. Not just
AS3. But all the other things that you can do with a computer.

Well, my dearies, that's my first conga of 2010. Not bad for an old
broad. Thank you all for putting up with my ramblings.

Joyce

Jef.

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Dec 31, 2009, 4:42:31 PM12/31/09
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10 years, 1 month, 6 days 5:08 hours smoke-free
184,466 cigarettes not smoked, $36,893.20 saved
1y 9m 2d 12:10 life saved

"INCONCEIVABLE!"


Bruce Watson

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Dec 31, 2009, 5:08:58 PM12/31/09
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In article <hhj5q4$5gl$1...@news.eternal-september.org>,

Outstanding!

Amazing!

Cheri

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Dec 31, 2009, 5:09:00 PM12/31/09
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Very impressive.

Cheri

One month, three days, 22 hours, 8 minutes and 46 seconds. 1017 cigarettes
not smoked, saving $279.86. Life saved: 3 days, 12 hours, 45 minutes.

BessieBee

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Dec 31, 2009, 5:59:44 PM12/31/09
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On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:29:03 -0800 (PST), FlatIronMike
<flatiro...@gmail.com> wrote:

>Well, it's Friday and time to line up for the last time and Conga!!!
>May 2010 be a smoke free year for all of us!

Well, it's Thursday here in Iowa :-), but here's my meter anyway:

I quit living my life around stink sticks: Five years, three months,
two days, 1 hour, 58 minutes and 38 seconds ago. 115144 cigarettes not
smoked, saving $14,393.43. Life saved: 1 year, 4 weeks, 19 hours, 20
minutes. My quit date and time is September 29, 2004 @ 3:00PM. Yes,
the figures are correct. They're based on 3 packs/day (20 stink
sticks/pack) at a cost when I quit of $7.50US for 3 packs.

Happy New Year everyone!!

--
BessieBee
Leslie
OOF :-)

"My face, I don't mind it because I am behind it.
It's the folks out front that get the jolt."
~My Grandma, 1898-1981~

Sue

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Jan 1, 2010, 3:31:20 AM1/1/10
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On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:29:03 -0800 (PST), FlatIronMike
<flatiro...@gmail.com> wrote:

I guess I may be the first for 2010.
Three years, nine months, one week, four days, 2 hours, 31 minutes and
12 seconds. 45609 cigarettes not smoked, saving $7,594.20. Life saved:
22 weeks, 4 days, 8 hours, 45 minutes.
Sue

rosie@readandpost

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Jan 1, 2010, 11:48:17 AM1/1/10
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its 1-1-10 and my meter reads 13 yrs!

rosie read and post

Les Stewart

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Jan 1, 2010, 11:52:42 AM1/1/10
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GoRosie!!GoRosie!!GoRosie!!GoRosie!!
--
Les Stewart 9y+
Beaumont, TX 30�N 94�W


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CuckooCat

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Jan 2, 2010, 7:28:58 PM1/2/10
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WoooHooooo to us all!!!!!!!!
Happy 2010!
Cheers!
Cat
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4y 3w 8:58hr/mins of FREEDOM!
59,301 smellycigs not smoked,
$11,860.20 spent on beer,
6m 3w 2d 21:45 of my blessed life saved.
Ex-serial-quitter!


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