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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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How quickly we forget

joe Quit Date: 11/20/2013   Posted December 21, 2014      Yesterday was 13 months since my last cigarette....    While wrapping presents tonight, my wife asked if I feel any "different" this year than i did last year.   After thinking about it for a few minutes, I had to say , that I truly dont remember how bad it REALLY felt last year...   Don't get me wrong,..I know I was having cravings every time I turned around and I think to some degr
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Decisions/Resolve

Sazerac Quit Date: October 23, 2013, A Good Day to be Free.   Posted July 10, 2018    Some quit on a whim, others quit making a sensible plan and map it all out as best they can. There are many successful quits between the extremes.   The important bit is the seminal moment in your life when you say, 'I quit smoking'.     I spontaneously said, 'I've quit. If I don't feel better in a few days, I can always smoke but,
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You know what - you don't want to be a smoker!-Repost by Poprini

Poprini   Posted 20 June 2014    No I'm not trying to hypnotise you or play Jedi mind tricks.  I'm talking about relapsers or quitters who continue to have smoking thoughts and desires.   Nobody WANTS to go back to smoking. They quit because they want to quit (for whatever reason). What they want from time to time is to smoke. And what that means is something else. It means all of the things that people "like" about smoking:   A break in the day Stres
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WILLPOWER

Mee Quit Date: 08/01/2018   Posted August 31, 2019    I used to think I did not have the willpower to quit smoking.  Every attempt, my thoughts would drift back to needing that cigarette and the excuses of why I could not quit.   Last night, as I lay in bed, I could not get this word out of my mind.  I realized that, over the past year, this word has really changed meaning for me. I always had the willpower to quit smoking, I just did not know how to do it.  St
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Smoking and Circulation

jillar Quit Date: May 29, 2016   Posted October 18, 2019    Are your hands and feet always cold? Mine were. Until I quit smoking.  I knew smoking affected my lungs and blood pressure. I've been on blood pressure medicine since my late 30's and instead of quitting smoking I chose to have tubal ligation surgery because my Dr wouldn't prescribe birth control after 40 years old IF I WAS A SMOKER. But I never contributed my cold feet and hands to smoking until I qui
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Red Flags

Sazerac Quit Date: October 23, 2013, A Good Day to be Free.   Posted May 1, 2018      I have confidence in my quit and estimate my chance of relapse is low still...addiction is a wily condition and I am human.   Here are my four maneuvers to avert relapse,  (  Think again,  Get right with yourself,  Contact an ally,  Post an SOS  ) and a slew of red flags...      When you know better yet, are purposefully leading yoursel
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Stop Waiting

Soberjulie   Posted April 10, 2014    Stop Waiting  Author: Unknown. Last sentence: Mine  So stop waiting until you finish school, until you go back to school, until you lose ten pounds, until you gain ten pounds, until you have kids, until your kids leave the house, until you start work, until you retire, until you get married, until you get divorced, until Friday night, until Sunday morning, until you get a new car or home, until
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Don't EVER Let Your Guard Down-Repost by Craig

Repost by Craig     I get sad whenever I read about someone that relapses after rocking an awesome quit for weeks or months. I quit smoking 290 days ago and I'm extremely confident I'll never smoke again. Things were a little different on day 142 though. That's the day I almost smoked a cigarette.....   Quote   Day 142.   I have been romanticizing the cigarette for about a week now. I've been daydreaming about the simple joy of holding a cigarette bet
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"The Smoker's Vow"

abbynormal Quit Date: 1/1/2019   Posted December 5, 2019    The Smoker's Vow by Joel Spitzer   To be said just before taking your first puff after having quit for any appreciable period of time.   With this puff I enslave myself to a lifetime of addiction. While I can't promise to always love you, I do promise to obey every craving and support my addiction to you no matter how expensive you become.   I will let no husband or
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Acknowledging the addiction

Irene Quit Date: 19 June 2020   Posted March 14, 2020    Before I even entertained the thought of quitting, I always looked at drug users or addicts with pity, thinking how lucky I am not to have fallen into that trap. Ironic huh? Now I have empathy.   I'm not a person who bares her soul, wears her heart  on on her sleeve, nor starting a thread about something she doesn't  know much about....lol I know I'm not the type of person to join a group therap
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Simple Guide to Freedom

Sazerac Quit Date: October 23, 2013, A Good Day to be Free.   Posted October 22, 2019    In celebration of my Six Years of Freedom, I wrote this little piece,     Sazerac's Simple Guide To Freedom   Desire:   You must want to quit more than you want to smoke   Decision:  Make the decision to live life without Nicotine.    Commitment:  Commit wholeheartedly to live without Nicotine  and intend on standing by your resolve.  
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Quitting On A Whim

Sazerac Quit Date: October 23, 2013, A Good Day to be Free.   Posted August 8, 2016    Many successful quitters here on QTrain have quit on a whim and just like them, I quit on a whim too. This is what led me to making one of the most important decisions in my life on a whim...   It was after a trip to California,   where finding a place to smoke was problematic and I was among non smoking friends.    For the first time, I started seei
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smoking turned me into a total coward!

babs609 Quit Date: 07/13/2012   Posted September 28, 2015    As a young child and early in my teens, I was very confident.  I wasn't the prettiest, smartest, most athletic, or funniest girl (well..I did win class clown in the 8th grade)  as a matter of fact, I was an average teenager...but I was okay with that and pretty comfortable in my own skin.    Somewhere along the line....in my teens...there was a decline in that confidence.  It wasn't sudden.  It was so
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Grow into a Happy Non-Smoker

Sazerac Quit Date: October 23, 2013, A Good Day to be Free.   Posted January 16, 2019  I just found this, hope you like it too.       Link to original post: https://www.quittrain.com/topic/11762-grow-into-a-happy-non-smoker/  
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One Question

Boo Quit Date: March 9, 2016   Posted November 29, 2018    Did I smoke today?   It is the one and only question that matters when quitting.  I've seen some recent posts in which people call themselves "bad quitters" because they craved and/or romanced the cigarette during their quit.  There is no such thing as a "bad quitter."  There are only successful quitters and smokers.   If you craved a cigarette but didn't smoke, you are a successful quitter. 
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NOPE~Never/Ever/Forever

Sazerac Quit Date: October 23, 2013, A Good Day to be Free.   Posted July 24, 2016    Some quitters may have trouble with the never/ever part of  NOPE (Not One Puff Ever).   To tell you the truth,  in the nascence of my quit, I  bluffed my way through never/ever land. I remember Cristobal and Stuart qualifying never/ever with the caveat,  'just for today' and that was the truth too, it is just about here and now.   As days and weeks passed,  I abs
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Sex, Health, Money & Time

Sazerac Quit Date: October 23, 2013, A Good Day to be Free.   Posted July 20, 2016                            *Want better Health immediately ?                   *Want extra Money in your pocket now ?     *Want more enjoyment from Sexual encounters tonight ?           Well then, it's Time to free yourself from nicotine addiction !   You can start by giving yourself 72 hours because in three days nicotine begins to leave your body. Tak
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Joe's Quit Story

joe Quit Date: 11/20/2013   Posted April 5, 2014    Just thought I would share ...In a nut shell, quitting smoking isnt as hard as you may think....its all about knowledge and commitment...the first step is quitting......   Looking back on my smoking "career" I wish I knew then what I know now....I CAN quit smoking!      I think from the first cigarette i smoked as a 15 year old kid I knew that I shouldnt be doing this and that it would eventually kil
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The Ripple Effect

Boo Quit Date: March 9, 2016   Posted July 20, 2017    Quitting smoking...it's what every smoker desires.  We've already established that the act of quitting is dead simple.  You simply refrain from putting cigarettes in your mouth and lighting them on fire.  And repeat.   The benefits of quitting are many: freedom, improved health, more money in your pocket, etc.  The benefits do not end there.  In fact, the benefits only begin there.  The process, while simpl
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Game Over...

jillar Quit Date: May 29, 2016   Posted January 18, 2021    Imagine if we were characters in a video game and cigarettes are our opponents. The object of the game is to be the sole survivor, the winner of the grand prize- A LIFE TIME FREE FROM DAMAGE! Like a lot of video games you get three lives, in our game they're called relapses. Each relapse causes your character to become weaker and weaker from the effects of smoking and your opponent seems to be winning. So y
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Do you know him? - Quitnet Repost, 1998

Genecanuck Quit Date: August 19, 2024   Posted August 23    Do you know him?, Quitnet Repost, 1998   from Billi Peel, on another site in 1998 Hi Everyone,  My name is Nicotine. This is my story. For many years no one knew I was a killer. I am very cunning, while looking so innocent. I am dressed in a white wrapper. I think my shape is great. I am long, slender and easy to hold. This is great for the 90's image. I've come a long way baby. Billions o
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I Was the Smoking Spouse

DenaliBlues Quit Date: 2/10/2022   Posted August 30    A lot of couples struggle when one person quits smoking and the other does not. I’ve been reflecting on recent Quit Train discussions on this topic, because for decades I was "the smoking spouse."   I didn’t smoke in our home or in our car. But the smoke clung to me and was present everywhere I went. It caused a ton of tension with my mate. The stink. The health worries. The temptation to join in. She H-A-T
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Reaching cruising altitude

AceWhite Quit Date: 2/7/2021   Posted March 6, 2021    Hi fellow NOPE'ers I've been thinking about how my quit is like being on an airplane. The first part of the quit is like a takeoff. A whoosh of a new feeling- some excitement even as I embarked on a journey and reached new heights. Slowly, as i've gained altitude, space between myself and that last smoke, I feel now at almost one moth in i'm hitting the cruising altitude, but with altitude comes pressu
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The Bare Facts About Relapse-Quitnet Repost

Genecanuck Quit Date: August 19, 2024   Posted August 27      The Bare Facts About Relapse From joyinca Nicotine Users Are Drug Addicts, And Therefore Are Subject To All Of The Rules Of Drug Addiction The very first cigarette you smoked started you down the road to addiction. You arrived without knowing where you were going. Now you know. You have joined the millions of nicotine users who are and will always be drug addicts. There is no changing this
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