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flokatia's Blog

Being a newbie.

I always thought I had an addictive personality. When I was little I was addicted to sucking my thumb whenever I could even at school. My addiction led to three years of braces and a lot of discomfort, but I stopped sucking my thumb and got really straight teeth at the end.I replaced that addiction with another one, bitting my nails. My mum took take of that addiction coating my nails with a really nasty tasting polish. I now have the luxury to spend hours painting them and feeling pretty. My
K. Lou

K. Lou

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TinaT's Blog

So It Begins

So it begins!   I am finally ready to quit smoking and face this thing head on! After nearly twenty years of being a slave to cigarettes, I'm going to do what ever it takes to free myself from these damn things!   I know that many people have tried different approached to becoming smoke-free.   Some have been successful with nicotene gum and patches.   Some have been successful with shots and prescriptions.   Some have quit cold turkey and never looked back.   I know I need help, so
TinaT

TinaT

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jimmy's Blog

my grand pa

this is a picture of my moms dad i never got to meet him he died when my mom was 1 year old his name is david frankiln fitzgerald
jimmy

jimmy

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NOPE

Nothing Exploded

Nothing exploded. I gave up smoking and stuff carried on as normal, the world didn't blow up nor did I fall over and curl into a ball - things carried on.   Stuff still happened that annoyed me, stuff still happened that made me happy and I dealt with that stuff - stuff is easy without smoke, you find a way in the end.   It's almost 3 months for me after 25 years of smoking, the most annoying thing about the quit is that I didn't do it sooner. I'm not talking about those half arsed quits, y
larklibby

larklibby

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Marti's Blog

New life 14 months "ish"

I love to write, it is one of my passions and sometimes, it get's the mental neurons firing and course correcting. That's why there is power on these boards because as we help someone else up, or write down a ton of confusing feelings, or acknowledge that today is hard but yesterday was good, we start to straighten out our thought processes.   Because some of you know but others don't, my life was somewhat complicated 14/15 months ago when I quit smoking. I had many pressures and few answers a
Still winning

Still winning

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The Journey to a Smoke Free Life

90 Degrees

First let me send each of you that have supported over the past week a HUGE THANK YOU!!!!!   For some reason I lost all of my post and the wonderful support comments that each of you have offered me. I have not posted since I blew my quit on day 4. But I have been back here daily to read your comments, read other post and reflect. This morning I decided I was ready to post only to find out that I was still logged in but could not access anything. Thankful an administrator get me back on but ev
marie-quit

marie-quit

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Marti's Blog

13 is lucky for me

It's so easy here. The quit is a wonderful thing still. It never gets old for me, perhaps because I assumed my family were "smokers" and it's what we did.   Today I joined a gym again, and I do exercise classes, a few of them and I still look like a ribena berry at the end lol, but I'm so much fitter. I take deep breaths all the time. I'm even wondering if I learn a new breathing technique to help and teach others...from an ex smoker!! Of 40 a day, who tried to quit and relapsed at a rapid rat
Still winning

Still winning

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NOPE

The best things about not smoking

For me, the best things about not smoking, becoming a non smoker, are the small things. I have never been driven by 'how bad' smoking is for your health, of course, clearly, smoking is terrible for your well being. Somehow, my brain had learned to navigate around that fact, because of the nicotine, the drug; It was dismissed - 'it won't happen to me' attitude. So finding a driving factor for my quit has never been clear cut, until one day I had a moment of clarity.   The day I threw away smok
larklibby

larklibby

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Aine's Blog

Sigh. . .

I've been using a vape pen for about 4 months now; 0 nicotine, but I was so damned restless in the evenings I thought I'd explode. Still no nicotine, but I've grown unhappy again with a dependency on the vaping. Not like my addiction to nicotine and cigarettes, but still. . .   So, think it's time to stop this dependency, too. Guess I'll pick up some straws today. Something to chew on, or something. I tire me out.   My attempt at "urban gardening" is helping some of the restlessness now, tho
Aine

Aine

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MarylandQuitter's Blog

Tobacco Wars Documentary - Episodes 1, 2 & 3

...TOBACCO WARS vividly portrays what the companies really knew about the link between smoking and disease, explains how mankind became seduced by such a dangerous product, provides a status report on Big Tobacco today, and looks towards the future of this most controversial of industries. http://www.quittrain.com/topic/4812-tobacco-wars-documentary-episodes-1-2-3/
MarylandQuitter

MarylandQuitter

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Marti's Blog

What a year!!

1 year and 1 day ago I wrote something on a support forum. I had no idea where it came from, I am a strong woman for sure, but this sounded like it had unending strength to "get er done" and I didn't have that for quitting! I had tried and failed many times from July through to last March, all roads led back to smoking. Social, weekend, less than a pack, more than before - all smoking! In truth I desperately wanted the quit...I just didn't know how not to be a smoker! By the time I got to a boar
Still winning

Still winning

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NOPE

End of day 3

I think this afternoon and evening has been the hardest in terms of physical withdrawal. Although I felt pretty rough! I took myself out for a 2 mile run, showered and relaxed and feel a lot better.   I do a lot of writing both in work and out of work. The out of work writing was very much associated with having a smoke; so I need to find another way to step away from writing and have that moment for thought. I'll figure something out.   I can feel the urges getting weaker and my resilience
larklibby

larklibby

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