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A weekly blog featuring well written posts from members of our community. Each week I'll pick a post and add it to this blog along with the link to the whole thread for anyone wanting to read more. Hope you like it 😊

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Guard The Quit

El Bandito Posted April 14, 2014   Firstly - my apologies for a massive long post - but I kind of need to get this off my chest. I posted it in my blog - but then thought maybe it might be of use to someone here...   Yesterday, my sister in law and her two sons came to visit. The plan is that the sister in law will stay with us for a couple of weeks - while the boys just came for the day. This is the first time that we have had houseguests since the house was refurbished
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Nothing is more important.

Christian99 Quit Date: 12/11/01   Posted September 6, 2021    It is certainly possible to quit without substantial (or even any) weight gain, but my experience has been that a common characteristic of many successful quitters is the prioritization of quitting over pretty much everything else.  Nothing is more important for your health.  Nothing.  And nothing is more important for your spirt and self-esteem.  Ask yourself what it will take for you to do WHATEVER it takes.
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To Not Smoke is Actually Easier....

Still winning Location: Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England Quit Date: 12th March 2014 Posted August 2, 2014    Hi Abby, I think if we don't understand it can be too daunting to quit. I, like many others, knew that times when we couldn't smoke were hard (train journey, plane, car etc). We were pretty desperate by the time we could smoke again.  That's because after 20 minutes or so, the nicotine in a cig starts to come out of your blood stream - it creates a lack wh
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Transferable Quit Skills

Sazerac Posted July 3, 2019    I think that as you gain confidence in your successful quit you will find that the skills used in quitting can be applied to other aspects in your life.   For example, the notion of H.A.L.T. are you Hungry, Angry (which can be switched to emotional), Lonesome, Tired.   To this day, I turn to this technique for a variety of reasons and situations. While it may not solve the underlying issue, it certainly alleviates c
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99 Day Learning Curve

cpk Quit Date: 02/04/2015   Posted May 13, 2015 · IP    Today I have 99 days not smoking. Ten things I've learned:   1) Quitting smoking is a process, not an event.    Online forums are part of the process, offering education and support.    All quit aids are a personal choice.   2) Time and Patience build a strong quit.   3) N.O.P.E. is THE KEY.  Not one puff ever. "Slipping up" here and there causes relapses, and allows the addic
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Lies

Nixter Location: Nebraska Quit Date: 6/7/15   Posted June 27, 2015 · IP    So basically what I'm figuring out is that cigarettes and nicotine are big fat liars. For all those years they kept me at their beck and call by making me afraid. I was afraid to quit because I thought I wouldn't be able to have fun without a cig. LIE. I was afraid to quit because I thought it would be too hard. LIE. I was afraid to quit because I thought every day would be like day 1. LIE. I
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Anxiety Antidote

cpk Quit Date: 02/04/2015   Posted May 17, 2015 · IP    It has taken me awhile to figure out that the anxiety I have been experiencing since week 6 of my quit (now in week 15) is not directly related to quitting.   Not smoking is the peaceful part of my life.   The anxiety was there before I quit. I probably used smoking to try to keep the anxiety in check. I don't recall having "anxiety attacks" when I smoked.   I have opted to use natural
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The best things about not smoking

larklibby Quit Date: 8th March 2015   Posted April 18, 2015 · IP    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
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Who's in Charge?

cpk Quit Date: 02/04/2015   Posted March 28, 2015 · IP  When you were a smoker trying to quit did you sometimes wish you could buy "just one"?   In my town a few stores used to sell single cigarettes. The singles they sold were stinky and stale and expensive, and it was like the tobacco industry was laughing in your face like "gotcha!" you will even buy a stale cigarette. What's next?, picking butts up out of the gutter?   Sure, you can bum one. But then w
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Constant Mindgames?

ssharonsif Posted August 25, 2014 · IP    I read way back and thoughts it might be useful to those who end up in a relapse, or in fear of giving quitting another crack.   Bear in mind Dr Steve Peters calls the limbic part the 'chimp' and the 'human' is the frontal. Hope this helps in understand why it's not about will power.   All information goes to the chimp first. The process is always the same as you go about your daily routines: in every situation and acti
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YOUR QUIT & YOUR LIFE - THE PROPER SEQUENCE

Cristóbal Quit Date: 14 October 2012   Posted May 19, 2016 ·    When our quits are young, we must learn and then practice in a conscious manner, to disconnect and keep separate our quits from all life events.   We learn to always keep our quits sacred, protected, and never influenced by any life event that may happen.   This dynamic we may call The Proper Sequence, and it is powered by your commitment to Never.Take.Another.Puff. (NTAP). It does not matter
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nicotine replacement therapy

babs609 Quit Date: 07/13/2012   Posted March 2, 2015 · IP  It's not what you think...at least not in this post.   Many people who "attempt" to quit smoking hope and pray for it.  They just crush their last few cigarettes when they are sick of themselves...of course, they just put out a cigarette when they do this so they feel all brave.  (20 min later--digging through the trash to find those cigarettes--I admit-I did that)   Then you have those that do qui
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A tale of two husbands...which will you be?

Nancy Quit Date: 07/07/2013   Posted December 30, 2015 · IP    Doreen and I were talking, and realized our husbands are the same age, 66.  That is about the only thing they have in common.  I am going to tell you first about my husband, Dennis, and then Doreen will be along to tell you about Tony. Hopefully there are smokers who will read this who still have the opportunity to choose which husband and father they would like to be.   Dennis is a never smoker.  A
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Are you a Slave to the Nicotine?

JackiMac   Posted March 17, 2015 · IP    Nicotine is a monster that comes along and takes you captive, it entices you in with promises of a sweeter life, it promises to give you stress free moments, make you a more sociable likeable person, you want to be slim and look cool, nicotine says it can do that for you, you can be an it girl a man of the moment because you smoke.     Errrm hang on a moment  let reality have a second to speak to you, nicotine is a chain that
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The Guadalupe River

This post was written by a member of another forum by the name of jwg and brought over to preserve it. And although I never knew him his ability to write about his addiction and his approach to dying spoke to me. RIP jwg.....     A lazy Texas river spanning form Kerr county Texas to the San Antonio bay on the Gulf of Mexico.  If you ever need to find a place to relax enjoy the sunshine while refreshing from the hot Texas sun, nothing beats a lazy day tubing down the slow winding o
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Irrational Behaviors of Smokers...What were yours?

Colleen Ginger Quit Date: 6/2/13   Posted January 2, 2015 · IP    We all have a moment or two (sometimes more) after quitting and see our former self in a smoker.  We see a smoker doing something unbelievably ridiculous.  Something that we as smokers, did or easily could have done.  As a smoker, it would have have been impossible to realize or if we did realize, we just didn't care...the addiction was that powerful.  I have lots of habits I buried with my smoker sel
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The First "No Thank You"

Rooster Quit Date: 1/1/2014   Posted January 9, 2015 · IP  Hi everyone, in preparation for a night around some smokers I wanted to write down an accomplishment from yesterday which I will be repeating as many times as necessary this evening. My first no thank you. Since I stopped smoking, I was pretty surprised at how easy it has been relative to my expectations. I had prepared for the worse, but I have realized over the last few weeks that I really hadn't been buying many an
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Mind games

babs609 Quit Date: 07/13/2012   Posted December 9, 2014 · IP  wrote this a while ago and just came across it.  Thought I would share it.      As I was driving to work a couple of weeks ago, a song from my past came on the radio.  Instantly put me in a good mood.  I was singing along, bopping in my seat happily as i drove to work.  The song triggered a memory for me...a happy memory.  I was in a good mood all day because of it.   Fast forward 2 weeks l
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Intentions

babs609 Posted April 2, 2014    Each month-I participate in running a brain injury/stroke support group. It's very fulfilling and I get such a level of satisfaction by helping these folks get together once a month to support each other, much like we do here. To some of them-this is their only social outing and they look forward to it. I learn so much from them; it's a very humbling experience. Anyway....the point of this post is--tonight we have a guest speaker. A Neurologist
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Feel the fear - and do it anyway!!

Still winning Posted September 29, 2014 · IP    I have spent a lot of my time over the last 6 months watching quit videos, reading stories, blogs, googling. I have read about nicotine addiction and health implications and self worth.  I would like to think I am a reformed addict. So rewind.....   I want to quit smoking but   -I'm told it's so hard -I will feel lousy for months -I can't see a world where I can't smoke again -Forever is too big
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Keep It - Your Quit, Your Shield

Bassman Posted September 17, 2014 · IP    Some people cannot go through something without having to put something on it or tag something to it.  That makes it justified for what is going on.         When I started smoking there was no one week, 2 week, monthly celebration for the start, no woopie I have been smoking for 6 months......But during many yearly anniversaries from the start of my smoking, I  wished I had never started....But there is no name for that
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The story of a mountain girl...

Ladybug Posted August 22, 2014 · IP    I am a "mountain girl" and I know a thing or two about hiking. I was born in a small village in the Alps, directly on the boarder between Italy and Austria, hiking was mandatory -not optional. There was an old joke going around about babies being born with hiking boots, skies and a backpack and I assume its still being told until this day. Not so far off the truth, I have been told I could ski before I actually walked.      Som
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Mindset Really Is Everything

babs609 Quit Date: 07/13/2012     Posted August 23, 2014 · IP  There have been discussions recently about NOPE and how it doesn't resonate well with some.  I understand that feeling.  When I was fresh in my quit the first few months, I wanted to believe those that have quit before me.  I wanted their sense of peacefulness and satisfaction with life without the cigarette.  I just couldn't imagine it and the daily restlessness that was occurring made it even more difficult
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Filling the Pages...repost from Eric

Nancy Posted August 22, 2018 · IP    FILLING THE PAGES by Eric A common topic a quitter might talk about since they quit smoking, is the fact that there seems to be void in their life now. Now that they're not smoking it feels as if the days have grown longer and they are unsure of how to fill this time. Sometimes this can actually put stress the new quitter, because this is so unfamiliar to them. Cigarettes have been so deeply intertwined in their life for so long, that
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Executive Assistant

El Bandito Posted April 20, 2014 · IP    The below is a repost of a repost of a repost...   It is a post that I have found invaluable. I posted it somewhere else today - and LB suggested it have a thread of its own....   Triggers: Reminders From Your Executive Assistant  Original post : Kattatonic Gold/ Freedom member.  "It's all in your head" has developed a really bad rap in our culture. What's up with that? The power of the brain is remarkabl
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