New Year Resolutions

[RobB]

Mine is to visit here more frequently and post more often.

What are yours?

.....and have you broken any yet?

[Spookrijder]

I've never made any new year resolution in all my life, except this time indeed.

First, and yes, stop smoking. This can sound like a good clich?, except I began to smoke seriously about two years and a half ago in order to bear the smell of my dear wife's cigarettes, but also an occasion to jump over the other side of the smoker/non smoker idiom. Since the beginning, the idea was: she stops then I stops. She decides, so let's go.

Second, writing a novel, finally. After three short stories, about 50 poems/lyrics and multiple aborted novels spread over a time scale of about 17 years, let's make this a resolution.

Third, be myself. In fact this is an everday resolution. Rather difficult!

[alx5962]

1 - try to be less pessimistic
2 - try to be less pessimistic
3 - try to remember 1 & 2

[sound world]

I like yours.Alex,I'll go with that!!

And it's great to hear that you'll be figuring more hereabouts,RobB!

Spook,I gave up smoking almost exactly five years ago and it's the best thing I ever did.Try reading Allen Carr's book 'The easy way to stop smoking' which helped me,a really hardened longtime smoker,a great deal.

My resolutions-
1) To give my partner a really brilliant significant birthday year
2) To find some means of paying for it

[~Michael]

Hello everyone!

I haven't been around for a couple months, but I've been catching up on past messages today. It's good to read all of you again. Basically I have been focusing on my masters degree as well as music (writing about it and playing it.)

New Year's Resolution: To be more efficient with my time.

Now to revive some old threads!

~Michael (aka rain19c)

[ruth1998]

To tone my body again. Therefore, join a gym. i start searching today.

desk jobs suck.

[RobB]

First, and yes, stop smoking.

Spook,
I hope the following will give you encouragement. Good luck to you and everyone else who is attempting to give up smoking this new year.

Time Stopped > Benefits

20 minutes > Blood pressure and pulse return to normal. Circulation improves, especially to hands and feet.

8 hours > The oxygen level in your blood increases to a normal level. Chances of heart attack start to fall.

24 hours > Carbon monoxide leaves the body. The lungs start to clear out mucus and debris.

48 hours > Nicotine is no longer found in the body Sense of taste and smell improve.

72 hours > Breathing becomes easier. Energy levels increase.

2 - 12 weeks > Circulation improves throughout the body. Walking and exercising becomes easier.

3 - 9 months > Breathing problems, coughing, shortness of breath, and wheezing improve. Lung efficiency increased by five to ten per cent.

5 years > Risk of having a heart attack falls to about half that of a smoker.

10 years > Risk of lung cancer falls to around half that of a smoker. Risk of a heart attack falls to about the same as someone who has never smoked.

[blue]

I've stopped smoking for various periods of time over the years - once for almost nine years straight - but the demon weed always gets the better of me eventually. Last January I gave up again, lasted till August. So I gave up again yesterday, but I've relinquished any hope of ever being able to beat it permanently. The best I can do is go for as long as I can each time.

My main resolution for this year is to leave home properly. My husband has been remarkably patient thus far, but I think if I don't move ALL my stuff into his place soon, and quit spending so much time in my old home, he'll be giving me my marching orders.

Other resolutions - to get myself more organised in my studying (hah!), and stop wasting time with things that aren't important any more, whether it be people, ideas, or habits. Tough one.

[vero]

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To enjoy.

All my best for 2006 to all of you.

V