GUS - Giving Up Smoking - Sunny Days / Starry Nights

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Thursday June 19, 2014 · 9:43 AM PDT

2014/06/19 · 09:43

GUS (Gave Up Smoking) is a community support series for Kossacks in the midst of quitting smoking. Any supportive comments, suggestions or positive distractions are appreciated. We avoid discussion of political issues. If you are quitting or even thinking about quitting, please -- join us! You can add GUS to your stream by clicking on the ♥ next to the GUS tag. The GUS Library at dKosopedia is organically evolving, and stocked with free-range information, quit-smoking links, and helpful GUS writing tips.

"A message to all quitters: you don't have to avoid GUS if your latest attempt to quit didn't work out. We won't give you a bad time and we consider the attempted quits as practice for the real quit." (h/t to FG)

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Thursday May 29, 2014 · 7:52 AM PDT

2014/05/29 · 07:52

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Thursday May 22, 2014 · 8:03 AM PDT

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Thursday May 15, 2014 · 10:14 AM PDT

2014/05/15 · 10:14

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Godzilla has battled many monsters. Which one is your favorite?

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Godzilla has battled many monsters. Which one is your favorite?

Rodan

0 votes

King Gidorah

2 votes

Anguirus

0 votes

Biolante

0 votes

Mothra

2 votes

Gigan

0 votes

Mechagodzilla

1 vote

Hedorah

0 votes

King Caesar

1 vote

Ebirah

0 votes

Kamacuras

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Destoroyah

0 votes

Baragon

0 votes

Megaguirus

0 votes

someone else

1 vote

GUS - Giving Up Smoking - Biking

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Thursday May 08, 2014 · 7:43 AM PDT

2014/05/08 · 07:43

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Your favorite 23rd Annual Grammy Award winner is

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Your favorite 23rd Annual Grammy Award winner is

Christopher Cross

0 votes

Ann Murray

0 votes

George Benson (ha!, I love that he's roller skating in "Give Me The Night")

2 votes

James Guthrie

0 votes

Bill Evans

1 vote

The Police

3 votes

Pat Benatar

2 votes

Itzhak Perlman

0 votes

John Williams

2 votes

Shirley Caesar

1 vote

Kenny Loggins

0 votes

Phil Ramone

0 votes

Rodney Dangerfield

0 votes

Gunther Breest, Michael Horwath, Pierre Boulez, Toni Blankenheim, Franz Mazura, Yvonne Minton, Teresa Stratas & the Orchestre de l'Opera de Paris

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someone else

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GUS - Giving Up Smoking - The Addict

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Thursday May 01, 2014 · 7:35 AM PDT

2014/05/01 · 07:35

Kind of an ugly title. Honestly, who wants to have that hung around them for a lifetime? And yet, here I am. Comfortable with it. Recovering from it. Accepting it as a truism of my psyche. I spent decades running away from a dual diagnosis because I always thought that wasn't me. Sure, behavioral and psychological issues, but never an addict. I convinced myself I had the things that addicts never have. life. love. happiness. Control. The cigarettes were just one manifestation of my proclivities to addictive behavior.

"eat me, drink me, don't look down..."

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Monday April 14, 2014 · 6:29 AM PDT

2014/04/14 · 06:29

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Monday April 07, 2014 · 6:29 AM PDT

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Monday March 31, 2014 · 6:29 AM PDT

2014/03/31 · 06:29

I've started writing about what skills I possess the past few months, as a logical extension of self improvement and in an effort to seek career choices I might find more rewarding. I'm recognizing some patterns and trends in the exercises I've shared. I want to focus on a different aspect today, and that's where I'd want to live. There are places I have a connection to. And there are places I feel drawn to. At this point I'm trying to be practical, and still allow for some exploration, or boundary pushing. I'm only listing three and I'm only focusing on the positives of each of the three for now. I can revisit this petal as things gel and I progress.

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Monday March 24, 2014 · 6:29 AM PDT

2014/03/24 · 06:29

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Monday March 17, 2014 · 6:29 AM PDT

2014/03/17 · 06:29

I have to be careful here, because I'm tempted to list everything I learned while I was at Streetside Records. The career experience I acquired and developed working there encompasses a lot and deserves a separate listing. For the moment, I'm focusing on the skills I used just obtaining the job as another of my Parachute exercises/stories. The premise of those exercises is to write, briefly, about something one successfully achieved and enjoyed doing.

I can tie it into GUS easily and in a number of ways such as relating how it became a non-smoking workplace through corporate policy, but I routinely disregarded that and stunk up the office, and by extension the entire store, every day I worked there. I should really feel more shame but .... I don't. It was the early 90's. That's not an excuse. Just a time reference. And another chance to own up to some ... shame? ... uh, no ....... I wasn't the only one who smoked there ....... hey look, I'm not the one who set the office ablaze and had to call the fire department one morning, so .. No. Anyway, I had an ashtray that was inside a mini tire ...... why yes, thank you internets, very much like the one shown. I don't remember specifically what advertisement was on it. I kept it in my cubby/cabinet in the office but I was just as likely to use a semi-empty Coke can I was done drinking from.

I can also carry over from previous weeks (or in general) and reaffirm:

that quitting smoking has been the impetus to a number of positive changes I've made in my life, and I intend to keep making progress and sharing that progress here. or somewhere-ever.
everyone has a great story to tell. I'd love to hear yours. And some shaming to go along with it, if possible. Lol, just kidding. maybe. ok, I am. Shame yourself at the level you feel most comfortable with.

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Monday March 10, 2014 · 6:27 AM PDT

2014/03/10 · 06:27

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