Rewards for stopping?
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I've quit smoking cigarettes, today is day 18 :cool: The NHS recommend rewarding yourself for the getting through the first day, week and month, and the reward should cost roughly what you have saved, so for the first day I got a take-away, for the first week I got a CP mug (came today!), but I don't know what I should get for the end of the first month. Suggestions anyone? Around £130...
Dylan
Dylan Kenneally wrote: I've quit smoking fags You might want to add a disclaimer there, to prevent confusion of our American cousins :-D -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!
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I've quit smoking cigarettes, today is day 18 :cool: The NHS recommend rewarding yourself for the getting through the first day, week and month, and the reward should cost roughly what you have saved, so for the first day I got a take-away, for the first week I got a CP mug (came today!), but I don't know what I should get for the end of the first month. Suggestions anyone? Around £130...
Dylan
but I don't know what I should get for the end of the first month. A chest X-ray? (OK, that was really cruel). Congratulations, BTW! Not easy to do. Take yourself out to a nice dinner or go to the theatre or symphony, might be nice. Donate the money to the local smoke-enders, cancer society, or other charity. Do you have kids? Put in into an account for them. Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
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Dylan Kenneally wrote: I've quit smoking fags You might want to add a disclaimer there, to prevent confusion of our American cousins :-D -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!
Yeah, that always throws me for a loop for a couple seconds! Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
Sensitivity and ethnic diversity means celebrating difference, not hiding from it. - Christian Graus
Every line of code is a liability - Taka Muraoka
Microsoft deliberately adds arbitrary layers of complexity to make it difficult to deliver Windows features on non-Windows platforms--Microsoft's "Halloween files" -
Dylan Kenneally wrote: I've quit smoking fags You might want to add a disclaimer there, to prevent confusion of our American cousins :-D -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!
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I've quit smoking cigarettes, today is day 18 :cool: The NHS recommend rewarding yourself for the getting through the first day, week and month, and the reward should cost roughly what you have saved, so for the first day I got a take-away, for the first week I got a CP mug (came today!), but I don't know what I should get for the end of the first month. Suggestions anyone? Around £130...
Dylan
Get yourself a video game, a basketball, or something else fun that you would enjoy. And relish it as something you now have the time to do now that you've not only saved money but time as well from not having to go out every hour or so for a cigarette break.
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Dylan Kenneally wrote: I've quit smoking fags You might want to add a disclaimer there, to prevent confusion of our American cousins :-D -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!
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I've quit smoking cigarettes, today is day 18 :cool: The NHS recommend rewarding yourself for the getting through the first day, week and month, and the reward should cost roughly what you have saved, so for the first day I got a take-away, for the first week I got a CP mug (came today!), but I don't know what I should get for the end of the first month. Suggestions anyone? Around £130...
Dylan
Congrats on your success. I think a good thing to do with the extra money is to save it. Keep doing that month after month and it should grow quite a bit in several years. I'm curious about your smoking story though. I mean, how did you start, how long were you at it, how much were you smoking when you quit, etc... I'm always curious as to how people can turn smoking into a once-an-hour or once-every-half-hour necessity. I personally enjoy smoking. But I treat it just like eating sweets -- with moderation. It's something I like but I know it's not good for me. So I do it infrequently. I'm just amazed at how people can get into it so heavily. Thanks for sharing, Alvaro
Quitters never win. Winners never quit. But those who never win and never quit are idiots. -- despair.com
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Lol yeah, I think this covers most people... "I went outside to smoke a fag but was so pissed I fell over and got the damned thing stuck to my fanny - gave me quite a good rogering" :rolleyes: American translation: "I went outside to dispatch a gay person with my S&W .357 but I must have had one too many Bud's with my work colleagues as I ended up falling onto my bottom, whereby I engaged in sexual intercourse with a man." British translation: "I went outside for a quick drag on me ciggy like, but those bloody buggers down the student bar musta served me dodgy booze like so I only went an' fucking dropped the bloody thing down between me arse cheeks didn't I. Blimin' good job I didn't 'ave that curry last nite though, almost farted and took me 'ead off." (well technically fanny is a polite version of tw-hat, which I think is itself global, and I made up both translations of rogering, so sue me)
David Wulff
"David Wulff can't live without me, so you shouldn't either" - Paul Watson
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I've quit smoking cigarettes, today is day 18 :cool: The NHS recommend rewarding yourself for the getting through the first day, week and month, and the reward should cost roughly what you have saved, so for the first day I got a take-away, for the first week I got a CP mug (came today!), but I don't know what I should get for the end of the first month. Suggestions anyone? Around £130...
Dylan
1. Buy yourself a set of tar damaged lungs that have been donated to medical science, store them in your fridge together with a packet of cigarettes, and look at them every hour. You'll feel much better for having stopped. 2. Give the money to me. You'll feel much better for having stopped. 3. Buy loads of fags and have a big party. You'll feel much better afterwards, but will probably pick up smoking. ;) Seriously, donate the money to your nearest Marie Curie or McMillian care group (whichever one it is that cares for the people who are dying). You may not feel much better for having stopped, but someone somewhere who couldn't will for a few hours.
David Wulff
"David Wulff can't live without me, so you shouldn't either" - Paul Watson
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I've quit smoking cigarettes, today is day 18 :cool: The NHS recommend rewarding yourself for the getting through the first day, week and month, and the reward should cost roughly what you have saved, so for the first day I got a take-away, for the first week I got a CP mug (came today!), but I don't know what I should get for the end of the first month. Suggestions anyone? Around £130...
Dylan
Dylan Kenneally wrote: I've quit smoking cigarettes That's so cool. Congrats on the good work. :) Help someone else quit smoking, it'll be the greatest reward. Oh and get a photograph of yourself celebrating the first non smoking month. :)
Regards,Rohit Sinha
Character is like a tree, and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
- Abraham LincolnThe whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.
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Dylan Kenneally wrote: I've quit smoking cigarettes That's so cool. Congrats on the good work. :) Help someone else quit smoking, it'll be the greatest reward. Oh and get a photograph of yourself celebrating the first non smoking month. :)
Regards,Rohit Sinha
Character is like a tree, and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
- Abraham LincolnThe whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.
- AnonymousWhat's with the 'grey head' again? I thought Chris got that all fixed up. Your posts seem to be alternating between the real you and the unreal you. ;) Chris Meech "what makes CP different is the people and sense of community, things people will only discover if they join up and join in." Christian Graus Nov 14, 2002. "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!! Those leaks are driving me crazy! How does one finds a memory leak in a garbage collected environment ??! Daniel Turini Nov. 2, 2002.
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Done. Thanks for the heads up man, I remember being somewhere with a Canadian friend of mine and telling them I was "going out side to smoke a fag", dizzy sod thought I was going outside to shot a gay fella....
Dylan
Dylan Kenneally wrote: dizzy sod thought I was going outside to shot a gay fella.... ROFLMAO! :-D -- Shine, enlighten me - shine Shine, awaken me - shine Shine for all your suffering - shine
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What's with the 'grey head' again? I thought Chris got that all fixed up. Your posts seem to be alternating between the real you and the unreal you. ;) Chris Meech "what makes CP different is the people and sense of community, things people will only discover if they join up and join in." Christian Graus Nov 14, 2002. "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!! Those leaks are driving me crazy! How does one finds a memory leak in a garbage collected environment ??! Daniel Turini Nov. 2, 2002.
I get the grey head when I forget to or am unable to change my display name in the little text box at the bottom of the posting page. In the lounge, you cannot change the display name, so I always get the grey head here. So it's not really sorted out completely, but Chris has a lot of other more important work to do, so I am being patient. :)
Regards,Rohit Sinha
Character is like a tree, and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
- Abraham LincolnThe whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.
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Dylan Kenneally wrote: I've quit smoking fags You might want to add a disclaimer there, to prevent confusion of our American cousins :-D -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!
benjymous wrote: You might want to add a disclaimer there, to prevent confusion of our American cousins Nah - let them splutter for a while. ;) Anna :rose: www.annasplace.me.uk
"Be yourself - not what others think you should be"
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Lol yeah, I think this covers most people... "I went outside to smoke a fag but was so pissed I fell over and got the damned thing stuck to my fanny - gave me quite a good rogering" :rolleyes: American translation: "I went outside to dispatch a gay person with my S&W .357 but I must have had one too many Bud's with my work colleagues as I ended up falling onto my bottom, whereby I engaged in sexual intercourse with a man." British translation: "I went outside for a quick drag on me ciggy like, but those bloody buggers down the student bar musta served me dodgy booze like so I only went an' fucking dropped the bloody thing down between me arse cheeks didn't I. Blimin' good job I didn't 'ave that curry last nite though, almost farted and took me 'ead off." (well technically fanny is a polite version of tw-hat, which I think is itself global, and I made up both translations of rogering, so sue me)
David Wulff
"David Wulff can't live without me, so you shouldn't either" - Paul Watson
Spot on the mark as ever. :laugh: Anna :rose: www.annasplace.me.uk
"Be yourself - not what others think you should be"
- Marcia GraeschTrouble with resource IDs? Try the Resource ID Organiser Add-In for Visual C++
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What's with the 'grey head' again? I thought Chris got that all fixed up. Your posts seem to be alternating between the real you and the unreal you. ;) Chris Meech "what makes CP different is the people and sense of community, things people will only discover if they join up and join in." Christian Graus Nov 14, 2002. "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!! Those leaks are driving me crazy! How does one finds a memory leak in a garbage collected environment ??! Daniel Turini Nov. 2, 2002.
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Lol yeah, I think this covers most people... "I went outside to smoke a fag but was so pissed I fell over and got the damned thing stuck to my fanny - gave me quite a good rogering" :rolleyes: American translation: "I went outside to dispatch a gay person with my S&W .357 but I must have had one too many Bud's with my work colleagues as I ended up falling onto my bottom, whereby I engaged in sexual intercourse with a man." British translation: "I went outside for a quick drag on me ciggy like, but those bloody buggers down the student bar musta served me dodgy booze like so I only went an' fucking dropped the bloody thing down between me arse cheeks didn't I. Blimin' good job I didn't 'ave that curry last nite though, almost farted and took me 'ead off." (well technically fanny is a polite version of tw-hat, which I think is itself global, and I made up both translations of rogering, so sue me)
David Wulff
"David Wulff can't live without me, so you shouldn't either" - Paul Watson
David Wulff wrote: (well technically fanny is a polite version of tw-hat, which I think is itself global, and I made up both translations of rogering, so sue me) Fanny is twat in Australia and England but it means your arse in America. That is why they have fannypacks or as we say bumbags. Michael Martin Australia mjm68@tpg.com.au "I personally love it because I can get as down and dirty as I want on the backend, while also being able to dabble with fun scripting and presentation games on the front end." - Chris Maunder 15/07/2002
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Dylan Kenneally wrote: I've quit smoking cigarettes That's so cool. Congrats on the good work. :) Help someone else quit smoking, it'll be the greatest reward. Oh and get a photograph of yourself celebrating the first non smoking month. :)
Regards,Rohit Sinha
Character is like a tree, and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
- Abraham LincolnThe whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.
- AnonymousRohit Sinha wrote: Help someone else quit smoking, it'll be the greatest reward. :-D
Paul Watson
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Cape Town, South AfricaMacbeth muttered: I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er DavidW wrote: You are totally mad. Nice.
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Congrats on your success. I think a good thing to do with the extra money is to save it. Keep doing that month after month and it should grow quite a bit in several years. I'm curious about your smoking story though. I mean, how did you start, how long were you at it, how much were you smoking when you quit, etc... I'm always curious as to how people can turn smoking into a once-an-hour or once-every-half-hour necessity. I personally enjoy smoking. But I treat it just like eating sweets -- with moderation. It's something I like but I know it's not good for me. So I do it infrequently. I'm just amazed at how people can get into it so heavily. Thanks for sharing, Alvaro
Quitters never win. Winners never quit. But those who never win and never quit are idiots. -- despair.com
Alvaro Mendez wrote: how did you start Usual story. At high school, aged 13, peer presure etc. etc. Within a couple of months I had gone from sharing a cig with friends once or twice a week to being on a couple a day. By the time I was 16 I was a 20 a day kid. Alvaro Mendez wrote: how long were you at it Started at 13, and I'm nearing 24 now, so about 10 years Alvaro Mendez wrote: how much were you smoking when you quit 20 a day Alvaro Mendez wrote: It's something I like but I know it's not good for me That was one of my main reasons for not stopping. Hell, I enjoyed smoking, but at the end of the day, I enjoy life even more. If your thinking of stopping, I recommend nicotine patches - they really help. My girlfriends taking to calling them "sanity patches" :laugh:
Dylan
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1. Buy yourself a set of tar damaged lungs that have been donated to medical science, store them in your fridge together with a packet of cigarettes, and look at them every hour. You'll feel much better for having stopped. 2. Give the money to me. You'll feel much better for having stopped. 3. Buy loads of fags and have a big party. You'll feel much better afterwards, but will probably pick up smoking. ;) Seriously, donate the money to your nearest Marie Curie or McMillian care group (whichever one it is that cares for the people who are dying). You may not feel much better for having stopped, but someone somewhere who couldn't will for a few hours.
David Wulff
"David Wulff can't live without me, so you shouldn't either" - Paul Watson
David Wulff wrote: 1. Buy yourself a set of tar damaged lungs that have been donated to medical science, store them in your fridge together with a packet of cigarettes, and look at them every hour. You'll feel much better for having stopped. :laugh: David Wulff wrote: Give the money to me. You'll feel much better for having stopped Very :suss: man.... you really think that would help? Not to sure now David...
Dylan