nsd_user663_1733

Hi Mate

Didnt want to read and run. so just wanted to say hi lovely to hear from you mate. No idea about your last fay but If I do will drop back. see you wednesday mate.linda xxxx

nsd_user663_3728

Hi Plumski

Well done on almost 1 year quit I'm coming up to 4 months on 17th I have given some thought to what you could do with that last fag and it's box/pkt

I wondered if maybe you could get hold of or make a coffin shaped box [maybe] and have a funeral to finally say goodbye to it kind of symbloic or is that too way out

Best wishes

Margxxx

nsd_user663_3029

Hi Plumski

Well done on almost 1 year quit I'm coming up to 4 months on 17th I have given some thought to what you could do with that last fag and it's box/pkt

I wondered if maybe you could get hold of or make a coffin shaped box [maybe] and have a funeral to finally say goodbye to it kind of symbloic or is that too way out

Best wishes

Margxxx

Hi there marg.

Well done on 4 months - that was one of my own watershed periods and I remember coming back here for support quite a lot. The fact that it was in the middle of what should have been summer didn't make things any easier!

I love your coffin idea - not too way out AT ALL! Unless someone comes up with something else, I'll do it, but probably simplfy it all a bit - just use a black box with a skull and crossbones

I smoked my last cigarette 11 Months, 3 Weeks, 6 Days, 5 hours and 36 minutes ago. I have £1,970.77 (plus £1,000 spent on a brand new super-telly and sundry expenses to redecorate my smelly living room) that I haven't spent on 12,643 cigarettes and saved 1 Month, 1 Week, 5 Days, 21 hours and 35 minutes of my life.

nsd_user663_3728

Hi Plumski

Glad you liked the idea just thought at the years end time to put that fag well and truly to rest also like your idea of black box with skull and crossbones

All the best

Marg

NicFirth10 Years Smoke Free

Hi Plumski

1st off well done on the continued, sucessful quit.

I think that the matter of the last cig should be determined by how significant it is to you now.

If its a big thing in your mind then a lavish send off is called for maybe a Viking funeral (burning boat style) etc

If its existence is insignificant to you now then just chuck it in the bin, as a piece of rubbish.

Best wishes

Nic

nsd_user663_3849

Hi Plumski

1st off well done on the continued, sucessful quit.

I think that the matter of the last cig should be determined by how significant it is to you now.

If its a big thing in your mind then a lavish send off is called for maybe a Viking funeral (burning boat style) etc

If its existence is insignificant to you now then just chuck it in the bin, as a piece of rubbish.

Best wishes

Nic

I would go for the lavish send off! After all - stopping smoking is probably the most significant thing you have done for your health and wealth.

Well done - you are a real inspiration!

nsd_user663_3554

Great going on your 1 year Plumski.......

nsd_user663_2485

Let it go....

Dang. Quitting smoking is like leaving a spouse. For some of us it is a spouse we've had in our lives for over 30 or 40 years. Of course it is difficult to get rid of him/her.

At least when we are a year down the road we no longer constantly think of the old partner. Yes, there are moments of yearning, but they are gone and the pain isn't what it used to be.

I recommend you let things go. It has been a year, let go of it and forget. If you remind yourself you only torture yourself, like keeping a picture of your ex in your wallet long after the ink on the divorce papers has dried. After all, this much is true: your separation from cigarettes is not like a fatality in your family. It is not a fluke of nature or an auto accident that separates you from a loved one for the rest of your life. It is an ugly, brutal, nasty, hateful divorce.

Yes, there are momentary pangs, but you are over it now....

Best, and congratulations on your quit. Welcome to the penthouse (I don't come here much anymore so feel free to change the carpeting and color of the walls....)

Rob W

Quit: 18 Oct 2007

Method: Cold Turkey

nsd_user663_3029

Thaks for the replies and suggestions.

For me, smoking has now become something largely incidental and the only times I think about it is when I pass smokers in the street and I have to smell their smoke, or when I can't escape someone's stink on public transport.

That said, my subconscious still isn't letting me forget the 25+ years I smoked, as I frequently have dreams about it. Either I'm smoking myself (within the dream, sometimes I feel guilty about it, sometimes not, but when I wake up I'm always relieved that I've not really caved) or of people or places I associate with my past smoking "career".

I'm not sure why I want to do something with my last fag but the NSD publicity, the hope that I might be of some help to others, and finding my packet again and wanting to do something definitive with it are playing around in my head.

I'd be happy to toss it in the bin, but it just strikes me as a bit of a lost opportunity to do something daft and potentially useful.