Just 'a learnin' Life Sans Cigarettes
Let me tell you more about some of the brainwashing techniques I have used upon myself to quit smoking cigarettes. I am a turtle; I slowly baby-step my way into better habits. Gradual change is easier...
View ArticleGUS: Recycling Edition and Openthread
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View ArticleGus it's almost 10 weeks
Hello my friends at GUS .. I am still not smoking. I am here to say that it gets easier even though certain times the urge is strong, it dissipates after a bit, crawls back into it's hole and waits...
View ArticleGUS: The Best Support Group In Teh World
Good morning, I am proof that someone can fall off the non-smoking wagon and still be welcomed here. I had one of my famous nervous breakdowns a week or so ago and smoked. I quit easily for a week and...
View ArticleDreams of Smoking Cigarettes
For the past two or three nights, I have dreamed of smoking cigarettes. I just gave up the nicotine, about two weeks ago. I did not experience any anxiety dreams before quitting, although I have...
View ArticleKosAbility: OMG they're smoking
That was my thought as I waiting in the drive thru line at Dunkin Donuts a few days ago. The cigarette smoke from the car a head of me was drifting from their open window backward to my car as I...
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GUS: Happy♥Mother's♥Day & yoga
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. We avoid discussion of...
View ArticleFat... I'm Fat
Everything is going well, who cares about cigarettes, not me.. I have lived through the worst of it...
View ArticleFive Years Free. :)
Breathe really deep. As deep as you can. Hold...hold...now exhale slowly. Relish it. Love the air. If you did this, then your bronchial tubes are most likely healthy and not inflamed. See, I have...
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GUS: Color My World
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...
View ArticleGUS Wednesday Big Dummy Edition
Good morning, big dummy here started smoking again. I hate it. I don't hate myself. I'm not disappointed in myself. I'm just getting ready in the back of my mind (boy, it's a disorganized mess back...
View ArticleGUS : Friday Morning Open Thread
Good morning, happy Friday. Falling off the wagon and smoking has really zapped my energy. I feel like cr@p. I've never quit again after just a few weeks, so I'm hoping this goes well next week. This...
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GUS: yoga
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. We avoid discussion of...
View ArticleGUS: Whine Festival Open Thread
Good morning, today is the official quit day for some of us (like Sally Cat and me). We've been practicing over the weekend. So far, so good. We'd love to have anyone else who wants join us.GUS (Gave...
View ArticleGus...11 weeks yesterday and
As far as the smoking is concerned, I'm good. Our trip to NY ended on Wednesday, last week and our drive back to Florida was pretty nice.
View ArticleGUS: Dinnertime and Openthread
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GUS: Dance Like No One Is Watching
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...
View ArticleGUS: Strawberry sundaes taste better than tobacco open thread
Good morning, I forgot to take my patch off last night. Boy did I have some whacked out dreams. Welcome back Safina. Labwitch is back too. And so is SallyCat. Yay.GUS (Gave Up Smoking) is a community...
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GUS: Why it is necessary to take a step back
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. We avoid discussion of...
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GUS (Giving Up Smoking): Sorry, NO Adults Allowed Tonight
GUS (Gave Up Smoking) is a self-sustaining community support diary for Kossacks in the midst of quitting smoking. Any supportive comments, suggestions or positive distractions are appreciated. If you...
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GUS: The Past Ain't What It Used To Be
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...
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GUS: "I'm not a smoker"
How many times have I said those words? And, yes, at times it was even with a burning cancer stick in my mouth.The truth is I do not see myself as a smoker, per se. It is merely that I have inhaled...
View ArticleGUS: Silly Sunday Night Videos?
I propose to post funny videos every Sunday night. Videos like this:Well? Can I? Who is with me?
View ArticleGUS: Boilerplate Edition and Openthread
Welcome, Welcome Back, or Welcome Home. GUS as you are willing and able.Today I explore the GUS Chrome or boilerplate. We have had new GUS diarists of late. That's a good thing. Most GUS diaries are...
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GUS: Silly Dreams Open Thread
Good morning, I fell asleep with my nicotine patch on again last night and had the craziest dreams. My dad once dreamed he'd made an orange chiffon cake for Lady Bird Johnson.GUS (Gave Up Smoking) is a...
View ArticleGUS: TGIF/TGIQ/IWIHNS (Alphabet Soup) & Open Thread Edition
I currently work in the corporate world, so TLAs (which can be Two Letter Acronyms or Three Letter Acronyms) often invade my thought processes. Today brings a week of profound MLA (that's Multiple...
View ArticleGUS: Saturday morning rituals
Good morning friends! Its a quiet morning here. Perfect time to stretch and get those bones popping and muscles stretched.Have at it...I highly recommend yoga for anyone, but especially those who...
View ArticleGUS: Being a Non-Conformist Like Everybody Else
In previous diaries, some of the GUS regulars have mentioned that they started smoking when they were in high school. It sort of makes sense that that would be the time for people to take up smoking....
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GUS: Getting Your Ducks in a Row
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...
View ArticleGUS: Towel Day Edition and Openthread
Welcome, Welcome Back, or Welcome Home. GUS as you are willing and able. This is Towel day.
View ArticleGUS: An 11 Year Quitter
This day on June 1st 2000 I Gave Up Smoking. I was going to Disney World & was told no smoking in the car on the way up. I was also told how hard Disney made it to smoke in the park, which turned...
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GUS Friday Open Thread
Good morning, it is definitely summer. This is a great time to not be smoking. Instead it's a good time to drink lots of ice cold drinks. Back when Cokes came in glass bottles, I liked to put them in...
View ArticleGUS: I'm going to inspire you
Today I'm going to plant some flowers, clean up the patio, and study. I look forward to Saturdays, its usually a pretty good day. Hopefully I'll get out to a state park today and walk this afternoon....
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GUS: Staycation's All I Ever Wanted
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GUS (Giving Up Smoking): Team Meeting
GUS WILL BE TWO YEARS OLD IN NINE DAYS. WHAT SHOULD WE DO FOR THE ANNIVERSARY THIS YEAR? ANYTHING?GUS (Gave Up Smoking) is a self-sustaining community support diary for Kossacks in the midst of...
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GUS: A Work In Progress
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...
View ArticleGUS: Looking Forward Edition and Openthread
We Give Up Stuff that is not forward looking, things that in the short run may not seem that bad but that in the long run do.Welcome, Welcome Back, or Welcome Home. GUS as you are willing and able.
View ArticleGUS: almost 2!
Time does fly when one is having fun, doesn't it? Not that it has been all fun and games, by a long shot - heartaches & stomachaches & headaches & any-other-imaginable-body-part-aches....
View Article15 Weeks and still counting
For no driving reason at the time, 15 weeks ago I quit smoking. It's been a roller coaster ride since then, some highs, some lows so I'll tell you I'm not really sure what's the big deal here.
View ArticleGUS Friday Open Thread
Good morning, I fell asleep last night very early so that's why I didn't respond to anyone. Sorry about that. I did remove a donut I had dropped. It feels so masochistic to put up a diary when I think...
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GUS: the usual plate special
Good morning, my a/c is broken, the fix it guy is coming today. I slept on my arm and its not functioning well. But at least there is coffee. I might take the day off from walking too. Ugh.Let's...
View ArticleYou Don't Live in a Bubble
Crossposted at http://leftturnsonly.wordpress.com/I work in the pharmaceutical field. Its not my career of choice, but in this economy any job is sacred. Specifically, I refill people's nebulizer...
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GUS: Finding Forgiveness
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...
View ArticleTWO YEARS OLD TODAY: GIVING UP SMOKING
No bullet plate introduction tonight. Two years ago, a small group of people hanging out in the comments of a diary by a fellow Kossack who had decided to quit smoking. Rosebudear had decided to...
View ArticleHappy Birthday GUS open thread
Good morning, the GUS diary series is 2 years old today. Some of us (like me) have messed up a little here and there and smoked a little, but all in all we're doing good. We have become good friends...
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GUS: Time's Up Edition and Openthread
Last chance to join (G)us in our second year. Welcome, Welcome Back, or Welcome Home. GUS as you are willing and able.
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GUS: Quit Sandwich
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...
View ArticleGUS Friday Open Thread
Good morning, sorry this is late. I overslept and how cool was it to get a call from anodnhajo a few minutes ago checking to make sure I was OK. I've never talked to anyone from Daily Kos before.__ I...
View ArticleGovernment May Be Violating Tobacco Companies' 1st Amendment Rights
The federal government may be violating First Amendment guarantees of the nation's tobacco companies. Two years ago, the government would probably have been allowed to establish advertising rules. With...
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GUS (Giving Up Smoking): Independence Day
GUS (Gave Up Smoking) is a self-sustaining community support diary for Kossacks in the midst of quitting smoking. Any supportive comments, suggestions or positive distractions are appreciated. If you...
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