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Does the year count? Tom Three years, one month, three days, 19 hours, 4 minutes and 36 seconds. 22595 cigarettes not smoked, saving $3,513.66. Life saved: 11 weeks, 1 day, 10 hours, 55 minutes.

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LOL! Tom, We’ve sort of adopted Hawkeye as our Mentor and Counsellor, since he also quit in November, but two years ago.  So you may be an honorary member or share Hawkeye’s prestigious titles with him, assuming he will share the honor. Contrats on such a wonderful meter reading, Tom! Hope you have a very happy holiday. BinnieBee One month, three weeks, 13 hours, 43 minutes and 44 seconds. 1547 cigarettes not smoked, saving $254.51. Life saved: 5 days, 8 hours, 55 minutes. —      (——-)    (  __<   )     ^^ ~~ ^^     ~f3as3~

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Does the year count? Tom Three years, one month, three days, 19 hours, 4 minutes and 36 seconds. 22595 cigarettes not smoked, saving $3,513.66. Life saved: 11 weeks, 1 day, 10 hours, 55 minutes.

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Hi,  Bob S.! Look at our meters!  Aren’t we Proud of ourselves? ) Happy Holidays to you and your family, too! BinnieBee One month, three weeks, 10 hours, 43 minutes and 53 seconds. 1543 cigarettes not smoked, saving $253.89. Life saved: 5 days, 8 hours, 35 minutes.

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – still here and still quit Happy Holidays everyone… cheers Bob S. One month, two weeks, five days, 2 hours, 2 minutes. 1963 CANCER sticks not smoked, saving $451.58. Life saved: 6 days, 19 hours, 35 minutes. Just curious, I’m not volunteering to track the data, but:     How many Novenders are still with us?     How many did we start with?     How are we doing? Glad to be a Novender still quit!! Amber 1M+ quit:  November 18, 2001

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Good deal, MikeC!  Don’t you feel great about being such a positive influence on your dad?  (Now, if I can just do the same with my husband!!! Grrrrr!) Happy Holidays, Mikey! BinnieBee One month, three weeks, 10 hours, 42 minutes and 43 seconds. 1543 cigarettes not smoked, saving $253.89. Life saved: 5 days, 8 hours, 35 minutes.

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Just curious, I’m not volunteering to track the data, but:     How many Novenders are still with us?     How many did we start with?     How are we doing? Glad to be a Novender still quit!! Amber 1M+ quit:  November 18, 2001 Still here, still quit and enjoying that extra holiday money!  MikeC. Smoke free: 1m 1w 2d 2h 57m – 899 not smoked, saved $179.97. Life gained: 3d 2h 55m BTW, My dad is not online but he is still quit also, Christmas day will be one month for him – after 44 years! I’m still amazed.

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still here and still quit Happy Holidays everyone… cheers Bob S. One month, two weeks, five days, 2 hours, 2 minutes. 1963 CANCER sticks not smoked, saving $451.58. Life saved: 6 days, 19 hours, 35 minutes.

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Just curious, I’m not volunteering to track the data, but:     How many Novenders are still with us?     How many did we start with?     How are we doing? Glad to be a Novender still quit!! Amber 1M+ quit:  November 18, 2001

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Just curious, I’m not volunteering to track the data, but:     How many Novenders are still with us?     How many did we start with?     How are we doing? Glad to be a Novender still quit!! Amber 1M+ quit:  November 18, 2001

Still here, still quit and enjoying that extra holiday money!  MikeC. Smoke free: 1m 1w 2d 2h 57m – 899 not smoked, saved $179.97. Life gained: 3d 2h 55m BTW, My dad is not online but he is still quit also, Christmas day will be one month for him – after 44 years! I’m still amazed.

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Yayyy,  Bob! BB

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I’m still here.  Glad to see there are others. bob One month, one week, three days, 21 hours, 29 minutes and 29 seconds. 981 cigarettes not smoked, saving $225.25. Life saved: 3 days, 9 hours, 45 minutes. Just curious, I’m not volunteering to track the data, but:     How many Novenders are still with us?     How many did we start with?     How are we doing? Glad to be a Novender still quit!! Amber 1M+ quit:  November 18, 2001

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Frederick, that is rough news and my sympathies to your co-worker. Your post touched me because I know that some people may have it in the back of their mind that maybe its too late so what is the use, then you hear something like this and it only seems to confirm it. This much I know, for whatever amount of time I get to stick around in this life, I want to do everything I possibly can to maintain and improve my health. You never know, you or I may live to see our nineties and if that happens it would be nice not to be tethered up to an oxygen machine. Take heart, this quit is the best thing you could have done. And you are doing it so well! I just turned 47 and like you am taking this very seriously, even though I may joke a bit from time to time to take the edge off… Go Novenders! StevenG One month, six days, 9 hours, 25 minutes and 7 seconds. 727 cigarettes not smoked, saving $189.24. Life saved: 2 days, 12 hours, 35 minutes.

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I’m still here.  Glad to see there are others. bob One month, one week, three days, 21 hours, 29 minutes and 29 seconds. 981 cigarettes not smoked, saving $225.25. Life saved: 3 days, 9 hours, 45 minutes.

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Just curious, I’m not volunteering to track the data, but:     How many Novenders are still with us?     How many did we start with?     How are we doing? Glad to be a Novender still quit!! Amber 1M+ quit:  November 18, 2001

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Oh,  Fred!  I am SO sorry.  I am glad that it hasn’t made you hopeless enough to start back. Several years ago I had a very good friend of mine that smoked, and so did her husband.  She struggled for years to try to quit and tried to get her husband to quit, and they finally did.  Less than a year after they quit I was standing in a hospital hallway with her; her husband had been in a terrible accident and they had had him on machines for over 24 hours, until they could fully evaluate his condition.  The doctors came out while I was there and broke the news to her that her husband was existing only by mechanical devices and had no brain waves.  As she put it to me at the hospital, "What’s the use of not smoking when you could get killed in a car wreck anyway?"  We were all in our early to mid-thirties at the time.  She started smoking again at the hospital that day and I am not sure if she has ever managed to quit again.  I have lost touch with her the last few years since I  moved. I told this depressing tale to say to you that I admire your strength in hanging onto your quit.   I know that when terrible things happen it is easy to just throw up your hands and say, "Well, what’s the use?"  But there is a reason.  We can’t give up hope. Just because your coworker’s wife may not have quit early enough (or perhaps the smoking had nothing to do with it?) doesn’t mean you and I quitting in our early forties isn’t early enough. Hang in there,  Fred. *Big Hugs* BinnieBee

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I am still here…taking my quit seriously because I know if I don’t… you know…  sort of joke about it now and then… that I will smoke again. This in turn will probably cause cancer and it will then Kill me and my kids will be really upset. Co-workers wife quit at 42, 5 years ago,  things went great for five years, she came down with a cold 30 days ago,  turned to pneumonia two weeks ago, went to the hospital one week ago.  Found out the "fluid" was actually cancer and he’s sticking her in the ground today!   This was great news for She’s really, as POE likes to put it,…RESTING IN PEACE and she didn’t fail at her quit nor make a joke about quitting either…… have a nice day…. -Fred One month, two weeks, two days, 14 hours, 47 minutes and 6 seconds. 1631 cigarettes not smoked, saving $333.65. Life saved: 5 days, 15 hours, 55 minutes. Just curious, I’m not volunteering to track the data, but:     How many Novenders are still with us?     How many did we start with?     How are we doing? Glad to be a Novender still quit!! Amber 1M+ quit:  November 18, 2001

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I am still here…taking my quit seriously because I know if I don’t…  you know…  sort of joke about it now and then… that I will smoke again. This in turn will probably cause cancer and it will then Kill me and my kids will be really upset. Co-workers wife quit at 42, 5 years ago,  things went great for five years, she came down with a cold 30 days ago,  turned to pneumonia two weeks ago, went to the hospital one week ago.  Found out the "fluid" was actually cancer and he’s sticking her in the ground today!   This was great news for She’s really, as POE likes to put it,…RESTING IN PEACE and she didn’t fail at her quit nor make a joke about quitting either…… have a nice day…. -Fred One month, two weeks, two days, 14 hours, 47 minutes and 6 seconds. 1631 cigarettes not smoked, saving $333.65. Life saved: 5 days, 15 hours, 55 minutes.

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Just curious, I’m not volunteering to track the data, but:     How many Novenders are still with us?     How many did we start with?     How are we doing? Glad to be a Novender still quit!! Amber 1M+ quit:  November 18, 2001

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Just curious, I’m not volunteering to track the data, but:     How many Novenders are still with us?     How many did we start with?     How are we doing? Glad to be a Novender still quit!! Amber 1M+ quit:  November 18, 2001

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Aww, com’on, Amber, volunteer!!!  LOL! Georgie Girl and I have been working on tracking this info every since we got here, and believe me it takes at LEAST two people in two different time zones (as in, she & I are 16 hours apart, so we don’t even have the same day at the same time during our mutually awake hours).  So anyway, in order not to leave anyone off, let me get her to post her most recently updated list. After I posted a Roll Call post yesterday we have had some Novenders that we feared we’d lost speak up.  And I know she sent out emails to several just yesterday, so I’m sure she will see these posts and post an updated list. To answer your question of how many did we start with, the last list I had was  42.  Then we did a "What Novenders have hit 1 month or over?"  which was about the first part of December.  And Icounted 24 out of the 42 that COULD have reached a month, due to their quit date being at least a month earlier.  Of those possible 24,  we had 19 reply back to the ng that they’d hit a month! Now, math is NOT my best subject (nor my very worst) but those were the last figures I looked at and they looked pretty damned good to me! So lets see what Georgie came up with after the post yesterday and her emails. GG????  What’s the latest tally of Novenders? BinnieBee One month, two weeks, six days, 18 hours, 25 minutes and 30 seconds. 1523 cigarettes not smoked, saving $250.54. Life saved: 5 days, 6 hours, 55 minutes.

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Just curious, I’m not volunteering to track the data, but:     How many Novenders are still with us?     How many did we start with?     How are we doing? Glad to be a Novender still quit!! Amber 1M+ quit:  November 18, 2001

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Just curious, I’m not volunteering to track the data, but:     How many Novenders are still with us?     How many did we start with?     How are we doing? Glad to be a Novender still quit!! Amber 1M+ quit:  November 18, 2001

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Aww, com’on, Amber, volunteer!!!  LOL! Georgie Girl and I have been working on tracking this info every since we got here, and believe me it takes at LEAST two people in two different time zones (as in, she & I are 16 hours apart, so we don’t even have the same day at the same time during our mutually awake hours).  So anyway, in order not to leave anyone off, let me get her to post her most recently updated list. After I posted a Roll Call post yesterday we have had some Novenders that we feared we’d lost speak up.  And I know she sent out emails to several just yesterday, so I’m sure she will see these posts and post an updated list. To answer your question of how many did we start with, the last list I had was  42.  Then we did a "What Novenders have hit 1 month or over?"  which was about the first part of December.  And Icounted 24 out of the 42 that COULD have reached a month, due to their quit date being at least a month earlier.  Of those possible 24,  we had 19 reply back to the ng that they’d hit a month! Now, math is NOT my best subject (nor my very worst) but those were the last figures I looked at and they looked pretty damned good to me! So lets see what Georgie came up with after the post yesterday and her emails. GG????  What’s the latest tally of Novenders? BinnieBee One month, two weeks, six days, 18 hours, 25 minutes and 30 seconds. 1523 cigarettes not smoked, saving $250.54. Life saved: 5 days, 6 hours, 55 minutes.

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Just curious, I’m not volunteering to track the data, but:     How many Novenders are still with us?     How many did we start with?     How are we doing? Glad to be a Novender still quit!! Amber 1M+ quit:  November 18, 2001

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I am still here…taking my quit seriously because I know if I don’t…  you know…  sort of joke about it now and then… that I will smoke again. This in turn will probably cause cancer and it will then Kill me and my kids will be really upset. Co-workers wife quit at 42, 5 years ago,  things went great for five years, she came down with a cold 30 days ago,  turned to pneumonia two weeks ago, went to the hospital one week ago.  Found out the "fluid" was actually cancer and he’s sticking her in the ground today!   This was great news for She’s really, as POE likes to put it,…RESTING IN PEACE and she didn’t fail at her quit nor make a joke about quitting either…… have a nice day…. -Fred One month, two weeks, two days, 14 hours, 47 minutes and 6 seconds. 1631 cigarettes not smoked, saving $333.65. Life saved: 5 days, 15 hours, 55 minutes.

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Just curious, I’m not volunteering to track the data, but:     How many Novenders are still with us?     How many did we start with?     How are we doing? Glad to be a Novender still quit!! Amber 1M+ quit:  November 18, 2001

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Oh,  Fred!  I am SO sorry.  I am glad that it hasn’t made you hopeless enough to start back. Several years ago I had a very good friend of mine that smoked, and so did her husband.  She struggled for years to try to quit and tried to get her husband to quit, and they finally did.  Less than a year after they quit I was standing in a hospital hallway with her; her husband had been in a terrible accident and they had had him on machines for over 24 hours, until they could fully evaluate his condition.  The doctors came out while I was there and broke the news to her that her husband was existing only by mechanical devices and had no brain waves.  As she put it to me at the hospital, "What’s the use of not smoking when you could get killed in a car wreck anyway?"  We were all in our early to mid-thirties at the time.  She started smoking again at the hospital that day and I am not sure if she has ever managed to quit again.  I have lost touch with her the last few years since I  moved. I told this depressing tale to say to you that I admire your strength in hanging onto your quit.   I know that when terrible things happen it is easy to just throw up your hands and say, "Well, what’s the use?"  But there is a reason.  We can’t give up hope. Just because your coworker’s wife may not have quit early enough (or perhaps the smoking had nothing to do with it?) doesn’t mean you and I quitting in our early forties isn’t early enough. Hang in there,  Fred. *Big Hugs* BinnieBee

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I am still here…taking my quit seriously because I know if I don’t… you know…  sort of joke about it now and then… that I will smoke again. This in turn will probably cause cancer and it will then Kill me and my kids will be really upset. Co-workers wife quit at 42, 5 years ago,  things went great for five years, she came down with a cold 30 days ago,  turned to pneumonia two weeks ago, went to the hospital one week ago.  Found out the "fluid" was actually cancer and he’s sticking her in the ground today!   This was great news for She’s really, as POE likes to put it,…RESTING IN PEACE and she didn’t fail at her quit nor make a joke about quitting either…… have a nice day…. -Fred One month, two weeks, two days, 14 hours, 47 minutes and 6 seconds. 1631 cigarettes not smoked, saving $333.65. Life saved: 5 days, 15 hours, 55 minutes. Just curious, I’m not volunteering to track the data, but:     How many Novenders are still with us?     How many did we start with?     How are we doing? Glad to be a Novender still quit!! Amber 1M+ quit:  November 18, 2001

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I’m still here.  Glad to see there are others. bob One month, one week, three days, 21 hours, 29 minutes and 29 seconds. 981 cigarettes not smoked, saving $225.25. Life saved: 3 days, 9 hours, 45 minutes.

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Just curious, I’m not volunteering to track the data, but:     How many Novenders are still with us?     How many did we start with?     How are we doing? Glad to be a Novender still quit!! Amber 1M+ quit:  November 18, 2001

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Yayyy,  Bob! BB

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I’m still here.  Glad to see there are others. bob One month, one week, three days, 21 hours, 29 minutes and 29 seconds. 981 cigarettes not smoked, saving $225.25. Life saved: 3 days, 9 hours, 45 minutes. Just curious, I’m not volunteering to track the data, but:     How many Novenders are still with us?     How many did we start with?     How are we doing? Glad to be a Novender still quit!! Amber 1M+ quit:  November 18, 2001

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Frederick, that is rough news and my sympathies to your co-worker. Your post touched me because I know that some people may have it in the back of their mind that maybe its too late so what is the use, then you hear something like this and it only seems to confirm it. This much I know, for whatever amount of time I get to stick around in this life, I want to do everything I possibly can to maintain and improve my health. You never know, you or I may live to see our nineties and if that happens it would be nice not to be tethered up to an oxygen machine. Take heart, this quit is the best thing you could have done. And you are doing it so well! I just turned 47 and like you am taking this very seriously, even though I may joke a bit from time to time to take the edge off… Go Novenders! StevenG One month, six days, 9 hours, 25 minutes and 7 seconds. 727 cigarettes not smoked, saving $189.24. Life saved: 2 days, 12 hours, 35 minutes.

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Just curious, I’m not volunteering to track the data, but:     How many Novenders are still with us?     How many did we start with?     How are we doing? Glad to be a Novender still quit!! Amber 1M+ quit:  November 18, 2001

Still here, still quit and enjoying that extra holiday money!  MikeC. Smoke free: 1m 1w 2d 2h 57m – 899 not smoked, saved $179.97. Life gained: 3d 2h 55m BTW, My dad is not online but he is still quit also, Christmas day will be one month for him – after 44 years! I’m still amazed.

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still here and still quit Happy Holidays everyone… cheers Bob S. One month, two weeks, five days, 2 hours, 2 minutes. 1963 CANCER sticks not smoked, saving $451.58. Life saved: 6 days, 19 hours, 35 minutes.

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Good deal, MikeC!  Don’t you feel great about being such a positive influence on your dad?  (Now, if I can just do the same with my husband!!! Grrrrr!) Happy Holidays, Mikey! BinnieBee One month, three weeks, 10 hours, 42 minutes and 43 seconds. 1543 cigarettes not smoked, saving $253.89. Life saved: 5 days, 8 hours, 35 minutes.

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Just curious, I’m not volunteering to track the data, but:     How many Novenders are still with us?     How many did we start with?     How are we doing? Glad to be a Novender still quit!! Amber 1M+ quit:  November 18, 2001 Still here, still quit and enjoying that extra holiday money!  MikeC. Smoke free: 1m 1w 2d 2h 57m – 899 not smoked, saved $179.97. Life gained: 3d 2h 55m BTW, My dad is not online but he is still quit also, Christmas day will be one month for him – after 44 years! I’m still amazed.

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Hi,  Bob S.! Look at our meters!  Aren’t we Proud of ourselves? ) Happy Holidays to you and your family, too! BinnieBee One month, three weeks, 10 hours, 43 minutes and 53 seconds. 1543 cigarettes not smoked, saving $253.89. Life saved: 5 days, 8 hours, 35 minutes.

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – still here and still quit Happy Holidays everyone… cheers Bob S. One month, two weeks, five days, 2 hours, 2 minutes. 1963 CANCER sticks not smoked, saving $451.58. Life saved: 6 days, 19 hours, 35 minutes. Just curious, I’m not volunteering to track the data, but:     How many Novenders are still with us?     How many did we start with?     How are we doing? Glad to be a Novender still quit!! Amber 1M+ quit:  November 18, 2001

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Does the year count? Tom Three years, one month, three days, 19 hours, 4 minutes and 36 seconds. 22595 cigarettes not smoked, saving $3,513.66. Life saved: 11 weeks, 1 day, 10 hours, 55 minutes.

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LOL! Tom, We’ve sort of adopted Hawkeye as our Mentor and Counsellor, since he also quit in November, but two years ago.  So you may be an honorary member or share Hawkeye’s prestigious titles with him, assuming he will share the honor. Contrats on such a wonderful meter reading, Tom! Hope you have a very happy holiday. BinnieBee One month, three weeks, 13 hours, 43 minutes and 44 seconds. 1547 cigarettes not smoked, saving $254.51. Life saved: 5 days, 8 hours, 55 minutes. —      (——-)    (  __<   )     ^^ ~~ ^^     ~f3as3~

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Does the year count? Tom Three years, one month, three days, 19 hours, 4 minutes and 36 seconds. 22595 cigarettes not smoked, saving $3,513.66. Life saved: 11 weeks, 1 day, 10 hours, 55 minutes.

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