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Bobbe130	Desperate Addicts Parade: Have You Ever...	#221	[url]	[-]
05/17/07 08:34	Looks like this thread hasn't been up for a few months and I was stunned and grateful to discover it so... Have you ever grieved over the death of a person you loved like your own life and a year after their death, broken a 20-year quit to smoke a cigarette in their memory on New Year's Eve, then smoked for the next 7 years? I pray you haven't, but I have. I'm a nicotine addict. Thank you my dear recovering fellow addicts. Bobbe Quit with the help of this site and a power far greater than myself for Twenty Four Days and 38 Minutes, while extending my life expectancy 2 Days and 2 Hours, by avoiding the use of 601 nicotine delivery devices that would have cost me $120.25.
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Ashley576	Desperate Addicts Parade: Have You Ever...	#222	[url]	[-]
07/06/07 02:39	Have you ever... jumped into water with an almost full pack of cigarettes in your pocket and proceed to lay out all 18-19 soaked cigarettes on a towel to dry because the water park did sell any. I did and alot of people walked by thinking this guy is crazy. Which I was!!!!! NTAP Scott Free for 4 months and 2 days.
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Gump19690	Desperate Addicts Parade: Have You Ever...	#223	[url]	[-]
07/12/07 03:31	Alright...I have put it off long enough. Anybody and everybody who has spent time here needs to eventually break down and spill it. Give it up.... as we have all been there. I'm gonna rewrite the string just a bit....and say: "Whats the most expensive smoke you ever had?" Well for me...the worlds biggest closet smoker: unable/unwilling to smoke in front of those who I hid it from here goes. 2 years ago, my family was invited on a long distance trip to Disney with the inlaws....all expenses paid that included a long drive. Being the addict I was, no way I could withstand the 20 hour drive with inlaws, who didnt know I smoked....or at least never let on they knew. I couldnt decline for family reasons, but had a huge problem as you can imagine. 20 hour trip without escaping for nicotine which was way beyond my comfort level. The only way out was: Purchase 6 roundtrip plane tickets for everybody so the intervals between fixes was shorter and bearable. So my question to you is this? Have you ever smoked a $3000.00 cigarette? I have and it was worth every penny at the moment, hence one more reason I quit. 1= all, no going back. Give me my 3000$ back cause today its a non issue. Those days are long gone....Thank goodness.
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katsrule8	Desperate Addicts Parade: Have You Ever...	#224	[url]	[-]
07/12/07 04:08	This is a bad one - Years ago we had our very first brand new lounge suite delivered, that afternoon I dropped a cigarette on it and burnt a hole in it, I was so upset as it cost a fair bit, and we had saved to get it - rang the store and told them it had arrived like that, they replaced it and said they would investigate the delivery drivers.......... What a shameful addiction Suzie 289 days of living clean
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FZ6SPORTBIKERIDER	Desperate Addicts Parade: Have You Ever...	#225	[url]	[-]
07/20/07 07:09	Have you ever done this? When I was in Jr. high, I was already a nicotine addict. I stole money from the church collection basket for orphans to buy ciggarettes. I am a nicotine addict.
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lfrogger	Desperate Addicts Parade: Have You Ever...	#226	[url]	[-]
07/20/07 07:56	Have you ever: I excused myself from the table at a resturant to go outside for a nicotine feeding, thought I put it out when I was done (even dosed the butt with water), threw it the trash can, got back in side & sat back down at the table thinking I felt better. But then to my horror, I glanced out the window towards where that trash can was to see wait staff running out a smoking trash can with fire extiguishers! I about had a heart attack! Then I wanted to leave the resturant & meal we were eating to go home and console myself with a smoke!....dang the non smoking restrictions anyway...this wouldnt have happened if I could still smoke in a resturant. Definately Junkie thinking cause I am an addict. Lou 1 month, 1 day Declined 1248 nicotine feedings Invested $218 in freedom, rather than torched with the flick of my bic
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kysbrlady	Desperate Addicts Parade: Have You Ever...	#227	[url]	[-]
07/21/07 04:09	This isn't something I did but something I saw yesterday morning. I have to be at work at 6:00am. I stopped at a 24 hour store on my way. The sun was just barely up at that time. I noticed a woman in the parking lot bending over and picking something up. Then I saw her put it to her mouth and light it. She was scavaging for cigarette butts! How sad! When I came out of the store she was still out there picking up butts and lighting them. If that doesn't illustrate just how addictive nicotine is I don't know what will. I am so grateful that I am finally free from the horrible need to feed my body nicotine. I never was desperate enough to do something like this woman did but I remember looking in ashtrays (my own) and in my car, and under my furniture, etc, etc. Kathy - I have been quit for 1 Year, 3 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days, 13 hours, 9 minutes and 20 seconds (479 days). I have saved $2,253.87 by not smoking 19,181 cigarettes. I have saved 2 Months, 5 Days, 14 hours and 25 minutes of my life. My Quit Date: 03/28/2006 6:00 AM
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shaz376	Desperate Addicts Parade: Have You Ever...	#228	[url]	[-]
07/24/07 11:53	Back when I was still a smoker... I came out of a shop in town to see a child, about 10-12 years old, picking a discarded cig butt off the floor and lighting it. That horrified me, even though I was still smoking at that point. It was like a smack in the face with the effects of additction that I was still hooked on. Sharon - Free and Healing for Twenty Three Days, 21 Hours and 48 Minutes, while extending my life expectancy 1 Day and 15 Hours, by avoiding the use of 478 nicotine delivery devices that would have cost me £118.71.
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Inky15880	Desperate Addicts Parade: Have You Ever...	#229	[url]	[-]
08/05/07 01:08	Have you ever broke up with someone with asthma because you couldn't even think of quitting? I have, I'm an addict!
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BowiegirlNat	Desperate Addicts Parade: Have You Ever...	#230	[url]	[-]
11/10/07 12:05	I hope that by replying to this it makes the whole thread visible to new people. (Can you tell I don't know how to do this discussion stuff very well?) I have to say that it took me a few hours reading every message on this thread and it made me laugh out loud and cry as well as nod and empathise. It was mainly nice to see that I am not the worst most addicted ex smoker in the world, that so many people have felt the full force of the nicotine roar..surrounding myself with non-smoking friends is a bit lonely, but this thread makes me feel surrounded by soulmates. Thanks so much to all of you for sharing your stories and giving us newer people strength,. I never let myself run out of ciggs because I was too scared. Only in my previous "quits" did I pick up butts..in fact, I started the last smoking bout by lighting a butt from the ashtray - mmn nn lovely. Addictied? If the nicotine gum wasn't doing the trick on a long flight, I put my smoked in the airplane toilet with my head half way down the toilet bowl... - can you tell I am a well-educated business woman? Thanks again for your strength.
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moiralives	Desperate Addicts Parade: Have You Ever...	#231	[url]	[-]
11/29/07 05:45	Have you ever (in the desperate months before you found whyquit.com and this site) quit smoking at the end of every packet and, within a few hours, smoked butts you scavanged from around the barbeque (the only place you smoked)? Did this gross you out at the end of yet another pack? Did you then gather them up and throw them into the garbage and next morning go through the bin to find a few disgusting, gross, foul, filthy butts to get your fix? I have, I am an addict. Moira - smober 1 week, 3 days, 8 hours, 44 minutes, 48 seconds
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LRhoads2	Desperate Addicts Parade: Have You Ever...	#232	[url]	[-]
11/30/07 03:39	Have you ever decided to quit, wet the remaining cigarettes, put them in a jar with a lid so you could go back later and smell the nasty odor to repel you from smoking again only to dry them out again and smoke the buts? I have cause i am an addict. 4M 6D 20 h 38m 51s
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RReese0	Desperate Addicts Parade: Have You Ever...	#233	[url]	[-]
11/30/07 05:54	Have you ever gone to the doctor, be diagnosed with high blood pressure, placed on meds, seen an opthamologist and told that smoking has probably caused some eye damage, gone to the dentist the next day and told that there are some suspicious tissues in your mouth all in one week and then continued smoking? I did because I am an addict. Roger - Nicotine Free for Twenty Days, 13 Hours and 34 Minutes, extending my life expectancy 2 Days and 3 Hours, and avoiding 617 cigarettes that would have cost $104.73. My quit date: November 9, 2007 7:15 PM
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AQuitter	Desperate Addicts Parade: Have You Ever...	#234	[url]	[-]
12/22/07 01:31	Have you ever taken the remainder of a pack of cigarettes and doused them with water and uttered "I'm never smoking again"? A few hours later, late at night, did you remove the soaked cigarettes from the garbage and place a few in the toaster oven to dry? ANd did you smoke the nasty, brown, brittle butts even though the taste was horrid and you could barely get a hit? I have, because I'm a nicotine addict. Greg Day 26
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Christina1 2 08	Desperate Addicts Parade: Have You Ever...	#235	[url]	[-]
01/09/08 02:56	I found this link today.. and have spent the better part of an afternoon reading and reading and thinking oh dear.. that was me, or that was almost me. Or no I've never done that. My have you ever... My brother in law was dying of lung cancer. He was in a coma in the hospital. My mother in law and I would go outside and SMOKE while he was laying upstairs in icu DYING of lung cancer caused by his SMOKING.. ding dong.. hello? Anyone home??? Oh I'm sorry you must not have heard the bell, cause you were outside SMOKING!!! facepalm I have quit.. sadly, my mother in law has not. deep deep sigh. Christina - Free and Healing for Six Days, 7 Hours and 56 Minutes, while extending my life expectancy 10 Hours, by avoiding the use of 127 nicotine delivery devices that would have cost me $24.51.
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aksunshine69	Desperate Addicts Parade: Have You Ever...	#236	[url]	[-]
01/26/08 08:09	have you ever......been pregnant, and hid from the public view to smoke a cigarette....i have, i'm an addict. have you ever...smoked in the house, around the kids when you know in your mind and heart that what you're doing is awful and wrong.....i have, i'm an addict. have you ever...picked a butt off the floor board of your car and smoked it....i have, i'm an addict. emmie - Free and Healing for Twenty Four Days, 19 Hours and 40 Minutes, while extending my life expectancy 2 Days and 3 Hours, by avoiding the use of 620 nicotine delivery devices that would have cost me $201.86.
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Carneadese	Desperate Addicts Parade: Have You Ever...	#237	[url]	[-]
02/20/08 08:21	I too have dug thru the trash looking for a pack that I threw away. Once I threw a pack out of my car window and swore I was done and five miles later pulled into a store and bought another one. I had spilled a pack in my car, I ran out a couple of weeks later without a chance to get more, dug under my car seat and found one of them. It had been sitting under my seat, was quite stale, had some unidentified substance on it, but I still smoked the thing.
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Eadie1969	Desperate Addicts Parade: Have You Ever...	#238	[url]	[-]
03/16/08 04:20	I climbed out of my second store window onto the roof of the first ...so I could smoke my smoke.... I was an addict....
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Tracy	Desperate Addicts Parade: Have You Ever...	#239	[url]	[-]
03/16/08 06:36	Have you ever...visited your sister in kansas and used that fact that you are 30 minutes away from the store and carless and decided to quit. two days into your quit it is 3 o'clock on Thanksgiving and you announce that you need to borrow a car to drive into a town 30 mins away to buy a pack of smokes....I did, in fact I bought 2 packs of smokes because I'm an addict!!!! I have bought a pack of smokes, smoked a couple, threw them in someone's else trash and then later in the day went back to that stranger's trash and covertly picked them back out. When I was under 18, out of money and smokes I pulled the lipton tea out of the bags and rolled it into paper and smoked it. Not the wisest idea but I gave it a shot cause I am an addict.
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humble live	Desperate Addicts Parade: Have You Ever...	#240	[url]	[-]
03/16/08 05:33	Just the other day I walked to a bus stop and stared at a whole cigarette lying on the ground. The addict in me was tempted to pick it up and smoke the dirty thing until I snapped the elastic band on my wrist which brought me back to the land of the living. Note: Lying beside the cigarette was a wrapper from Nicorette Gum. Go figure. I have been quit for 1 Week, 3 Days, 21 hours, 2 minutes and 1 second (10 days). I have saved $114.20 by not smoking 380 cigarettes. I have saved 1 Day, 7 hours and 40 minutes of my life. My Quit Date: 3/5/2008 12:30 PM
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