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Today's Adventure and Challenge!

Ok, so today will be my first challenge and I am looking forward to it. I am going out to play in a corn hole tournament which is bizzarre due to the fact that I am from the NOrth and would rather play horseshoes. Any way it will be the first time out in a bar setting where I may end up having a drink (not sure if it is a trigger but guessing it could be) I am Irish though so can't go cold turkey on 2 things at once HAHA!   Anyway I am planning on having just as much fun witout the nasty littl
Humbled

Humbled

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Things to do instead of smoking

Brush your teeth Take a shower Read the board Post on the board Read Allen Carr Listen to audio book Pet the dog Walk a dog Brush a dog Watch a Joel video Watch a documentary Weed the garden Clean something Laundry Organize something Make stepping stone Make bird feeder Pinterest Call someone
Trish

Trish

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Gonna get through this week, smoke free!

OK, so I am moving this week. On Friday 8/1 and Saturday 8/2 to be more specific. I still have packing to do and my little one is acting out. He isn't taking this move as well as the last. I'm sure because he is older, etc. etc. etc. Trying to keep my cool. I want to be able to look back at this and laugh, just like I do at previous adventures. However, I am pretty stressed. Deep breaths alot and more than the usual amount of cupcakes. It will be nice to be settled again so putting 1 foot in
Holski

Holski

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Day 4

Day y 4 is down and dusted. What I really need to think about now is patience. This is what got me into trouble in my previous quit. I can't hurry to my new normal, it will just happen when it happens. So Sandy chill out! Had a couple thoughts of smoking today, but really nothing serious. Oh, and boredom. I need to be careful of that. Smoking is what I did whenever I was bored. My plan now is to try one of my alternatives such as getting on the forum to read. This quit really does feel di
SanDar

SanDar

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Freedom!

July 24, 2014 I put down that last nasty, awful cig and said to myself "No more!". I have been taking Chantix, and it is working. I had not planned to quit that day, but could not stand smoking for another day! Now here it is July 25th, and I'm smoke-free!I cannot possibly do this again so I just know this is going to be my final quit. I'm glad to have found this Quit Train forum :)   Oh, and my coffee really tastes like coffee today :)
SanDar

SanDar

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My mum has a 1 month quit

She forgot the date, she has done none of what I did or had any support - just cracked on after 50 odd years and didn't smoke. She's been quitting forever, far longer than I was trying for.   She is still cranky as all hell but she is also feeling unwell. The quit was prompted by a heart scare which can now add to the copd as a lifelong condition, caused by smoking and it was the trigger she needed to just stop there and then. She used a patch for 2 weeks then ditched that too.   We bitch a
Still winning

Still winning

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I don't have the answers but I do have 4 months :)

My quit makes me proud. I do believe anyone can quit and that every quit will be different. I believe if you educate yourself enough about the harm smoking causes you will find it tougher to do that to yourself again. I believe that smoking and craving 20, 30, 60 times a day is honestly harder than saying no more, not today and getting past the points where it feels hard.   For all the tough days whilst quitting and finding my new personality post being a smoker, what sticks with me is I did i
Still winning

Still winning

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2 1/2 months have passed

Well I just wanted to browse and see how everyone is doing. It looks like the quit train is doing well. There are lots of new members. I gave up my quit in April and I have not tried to quit again. Being here though - reading all the posts makes me wonder if I should try again. I am not afraid to try to quit again I think the stressful part is I am setting myself up for failure because I don't believe I am going to do it. I am lying to myself and I don't want to tell anybody I am quitting
Amy

Amy

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I love almond joy candy bars.

So I'm sitting at my desk at lunch and eating an almond joy. I just love them. I love chocolate. Needless to say, my weight is still the same as well.. too much. Not going up, though. Yay.   Anyway, I am so happy to be smoke free today. I am going through the process of moving homes. My landlord decided to sell the house we (my family) rent. She didn't tell us and whamo, a bit over 3 weeks to move. What the?!?! Anyway, I had a freak out, I almost smoked but then I didn't. I know by no
Holski

Holski

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4 months!

On my 4 month landmark I felt like my life was falling apart. It was the day I realized my family is not on my side, and merely relations.   It was also the first day that smoking did not enter my mind - at all - all day. 4 month plus one day made up for it with craves lol, all ok now. It's a choice rather than a gut clenching moment nowadays.   I don't know what to do about those in my life who feel fear, or upset for who I am but I do know nothing can make me smoke again.   I have atten
Still winning

Still winning

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Much better.

Sigh..I made it through another day smoke free. I'm so freaking relieved. I am grateful! Nite nite QT
Holski

Holski

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Call the waaambulance.

I should have done some blog entries when I was feeling good. I will do that, for sure. In the meantime, Blaaaaach! I feel unappreciated at work. I feel yucko. What do people do who don't drink or smoke for an escape. Exercise? Really? Eating sounds good but that only goes so far and I'm not loving the weight gain as it is. Knitting? I don't know how. Maybe I should learn. Read? I love to read but I'm lookin' for something else. SOMETHING IS MISSING!! Sleeping. That is great!!! Howe
Holski

Holski

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Don't smoke - I will find you :)

Boom and by the gods, got another one sucked in!! My Giles quits tomorrow with a brilliant mindset of - Mart, if you've got it, then so can I! I LOVE this inspiring stuff!! Even if this doesn't take, he is thinking, and seeing it's do-able and I am somehow managing to enable that, simply by quitting!!   And his twin brother is part of my soul group, so if I can suck Giles in, maybe I can suck my Elliott into quitting. By the way some people think soul mates are the bird/bloke they happen
Still winning

Still winning

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I think it just got easier again

Sometimes, when you least expect it, this quitting malarky ramps itself up a gear.   I was soo upset and angry earlier in the week. I knew I wouldn't smoke, I did think about it read my own answer to an sos (which it wasn't but precautionary). It suddenly felt like an answer from another lifetime. I have cigs in the house, have the whole quit though so not new or a plan, and I thought "I wish it would help, I know it won't, sigh". And just carried on being upset.   Like a non smoker!!   Ha
Still winning

Still winning

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Sometimes it's still hard and emotional

I don't take failure well. I don't take pointing out or twisting my flaws well.It stillpushes my buttons. Not SOS now but I find it harder when people piss me off. I understand how I gave up a year quit when I feel upset. I won't, cause nothing is worth it but blimey. It's been tough isall.
Still winning

Still winning

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Pleased

I am so pleased with myself, a few things happened over the weekend and my first reaction was not, I want a ciggie, in fact now I think about it, didn't enter my mind. ( dealing with son's father always makes me want ciggie) It even feels like the depression has eased a bit. I think re-reading Allen Carr's book has helped. Its Tuesday today and I really don't have that restless feeling. Their is one draw back, I think I have a problem with NRT. I didn't really click until reading the book.
Gabby

Gabby

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Depression

Bummer deal. I could stay in bed all day. Literally. I. Don't. Want. To. Do. Anything. Catch 22. I know that getting up and moving and doing stuff would help. However, I don't want to get up and do stuff. Imagine the biggest sigh ever that echos through the trees... That will be me. *Sigh* Tomorrow I will force myself.
Holski

Holski

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My Mum finally quit!!

Ok, so it took an admission through A&E and two ambulance calls, a cist on the kidney and a damaged and over beating heart whilst literally filling up with fluid at 66 years old.... (and breath) ....but she quit.   She will never read this cause "forums aren't her thing, all those do gooders patting each other on the back" apparently?! But still a one week, bootstrap quit. Just cracked on, some whinging but too scared to smoke anymore.   I am still worried but sooo relieved she is at l
Still winning

Still winning

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Still hanging in.

So last night was really fun! It was great to see my girlfriends. The group of us have been friends since high school. Some of them have older children and a couple of us were late bloomers and have young kids. We all used to smoke. Bunch of little rebels, or so we thought. Anyway, I did end up going to the smoking section outside with them and it was fine. I was OK. I thought about posting If I needed to as I had my phone on me. You guys were there with me and you didn't even know it! :D Al
Holski

Holski

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