Cookie Jar Stash

**TJ Kelley** · 15th August 13, 09:43 AM

Figured this would amuse the rabble, and I can relate.

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I am 3 months strong today on kicking the nasty cigarette habit.
I have done my fare share of drug experimenting with just about everything, but tobacco by far is the most addicting and habit forming. I still struggle daily with it, driving is the biggest pain.

Anyway... I started a cookie jar and put $5 a day into it.
It amassing how fast it gets full, and the amount I pissed away on smokes kicks me in the rear.

Close to my $500 goal and taking the lil' lady on a weekend getaway.
Surely this will be sweet tasting.

Anyone else have a rainy day stash technique they'd care to share?

**TheOfficialBren** · 15th August 13, 11:33 AM

First off, good for you, TJ!

Second off, yes, tobacco is one of the toughest habits to break.

Lastly, your getaway trip will be all-the-more meaningful to Mrs TJ since you are quitting smoking.

**Duke of Delrio** · 15th August 13, 12:58 PM

Great luck with that. All my friends quit smoking. Of course, all they have to show for it is . . . . . health!

**Liam** · 15th August 13, 02:14 PM

I smoked for many years and quit a number of times, most recently for 8 years. I had previously had stopped for 9 years. My advise is to quit cold turkey, and never think you can "just have one". When the urge hits, go for a walk, or do something different. Be prepared for about 2 weeks of poor sleep. After the first 2 weeks things get easier.

Good Luck!

**GMan** · 15th August 13, 06:53 PM

Glad that you stopped smoking, I agree it is wicked.

I do like the idea of a cookie jar.

**MacCathmhaoil** · 15th August 13, 07:26 PM

Congratulations! I know all too well the struggle, keep at it. Year and a half for me, I quit on my birthday, the savings paid for my kilt from John at Keltoi in no time.

**plaid preacher** · 15th August 13, 07:30 PM

Originally Posted by Liam

I smoked for many years and quit a number of times, most recently for 8 years. I had previously had stopped for 9 years. My advise is to quit cold turkey, and never think you can "just have one". When the urge hits, go for a walk, or do something different. Be prepared for about 2 weeks of poor sleep. After the first 2 weeks things get easier.

Good Luck!

I was never so happy than when I quite cold turkey. I never realized how hard it was to roll cold turkey until I quite!

Oh... and congratulations TJ. Kicking the habit is a big accomplishment.

**Riverkilt** · 15th August 13, 08:29 PM

Nice to still be alive when you quit smoking. Congrats from another former corporate slave of big tobacco. Friend of mine did the same thing. He put the amount of money he would have spent on ciggies in a jar. After a year he saved enough to pay for a week's raft trip down the Grand Canyon.

**McClef** · 16th August 13, 01:42 AM

Strange as it sounds, what worked for me was joining Freemasonry.

Knowing that I would be in the Temple for some time and not able to sneak out for a quick drag, I stopped two days before my Initiation, cold turkey and have never felt like starting again in the over 800 days since.

I have a little program which I check from time to time which tells me how many days it has been since I last smoked, how many cigarettes I would have smoked since and how much it would have cost me as well as how much tar and nicotine I have avoided.

**TJ Kelley** · 16th August 13, 08:51 AM

Thanks mates for your words of encouragement. And for those who have also quit... props to you!

Over the coarse of 23 years I have quit several times. For me, it is not the quitting thing that is so difficult, its the starting back up is so easy. But the time in my life to do it for good is now.

McC the program you have sounds very interesting, can I get the name of it?