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NEW VIDEO: When Did I Actually Quit Smoking?

Many long-term former smokers have a difficult time remembering the date or even the year when they actually stopped. This video explains an important underlying message of their inability to recall what many people would think is an unforgettable date. http://www.quittrain.com/topic/2096-video-introduction-to-joel-misc-educational-videos-by-joel/?p=187101
MarylandQuitter

MarylandQuitter

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I am so sick and tired

... of this pain, hurt, anger, tears. Sjeesh waiting for 4 hours now before my dinner meals will be delivered. I am done, pissed off. I crave a smoke and a booze. I won't I WILL NOT DO THAT!   Okay afer sleeping in bed 2 hours and waking in midst of cravings I asked myself WHY?   It's about hiding, not feeling; a natural response for your brain!!! To get out of it I had to realise I'm allowed to feel, crave but it won't help a silly thing if put myself back on day zero. So feel, jump, scream
Evelyn

Evelyn

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still stuck

o ego the shoulds , could'ves and wants illusions firmly projected becoming life .... un real really   o Source in here locked away buried and glimpsed soaring in the tiny cage built of darkly schooled ego ...     dying to release and to find to BE  
Kendra

Kendra

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day 5

Evenings are unbearably hard! I don't know how else to find completion with the day. there's a raving psychopath inside my head and I almost believe the things she says... Like I will never feel completely satisfied again. And I feel I'm being punished when I know that actually the opposite is true.
peaceanjel

peaceanjel

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New chapter ~ kick-off week 2

I decide to choose 'love life' and here and now. My therapist let me chose a 'here and now stone' which I can grab, feel, touch when I drift off to older, bad days. Hadn't seen him in 5 weeks... dreadfull weeks. He was awsome and guess what so was I!!! How close was I of exploding today, with my SOS; luckily I did it. That SOS saved my quit. I SAVED MY QUIT> my life!!!   I am free to make my own choices, not every man is like the bad ones from my past. That person is gone, dust, a shadow n
Evelyn

Evelyn

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4 sticky days feeling good - reflecting on one week

I just woke up. I'm pretty wakey wakey, going out for a social meeting thingy; dunno how to translate (hey it's 8in the morning huh!) and they will be puffing anf smoking and drinking strong coffee. I promissed myself one bottem of strong coffee and smoking wasn't even on my mind ;)   Booze is NOT a good upper, Saz is right finally after a week I stabalise again. NO booze EVER again. Same rules with cigarettes; they have the same shitty affect....   I have a cool dance music one, but I expec
Evelyn

Evelyn

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Love yourself, embrace life!

When you smoke, you don't care as long as you get your fix: but you do not care for your well being. In fact most smokers hate 'their habbit' but don't have a clue how to throw it out the window. There's a few things: 1- fear of quiting (withdrawls) 2- low self esteem and 3- no real commitment to stick with your decision to quit. You can get tons of advice about this on the forums and / or fwatch the video's from Joel Spitzer: https://www.youtube.com/user/joelspitz/videos and read, read on the
Evelyn

Evelyn

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Almost 3 days; Alegria

I am pleased. And I'm also going to be open, not for my sake but for those who struggle with mental health problems, various from anxiety to depression to borderline... I a proud. I am proud standing here with my almost 3 days on my ticker. Not that the quitng is a huge accomplishment... but quiting when you have to deal with anxiety, or in my case dissociation: I lost almost 2 months of time, variating from a day to 2 weeks. Finding myself smoking, on the ER, another hospitalisation on the ment
Evelyn

Evelyn

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Day 1

Hmmmm a blog , never had one , and not completely sure how it works , but i'm probably just gonna use it as a Diary because it would be fun seeing how i'm feeling over the first few days of stopping to smoke     Day 1   14:00 --Woke up around that time   14:40 --Took a shower for an hour after waking up   16:00 -- just got back from the grocery store , completely forgot to buy food yesterday because i only bought soda and a lot of cranberry juice xD Small victory i did no
Bday

Bday

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Craves strong today

Day 18, third day on the step 2 patch. I'm craving bad today. I don't know what it is. But I'm home alone and don't know what to do. I'm deep breathing right now, watching Scrubs, and drinking ice water. I went for a walk and felt peaceful during it, with no cravings, but as soon as I got home I got anxious. I figure writing all this down is a good thing and helping to remind myself that I'm not always going to face easy days.   One thing I'm doing is reminding myself that if I quit for five y
IndigoChilde

IndigoChilde

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No craves first thing in the morning!

So I woke up at 4:00 this morning with the realization I still had the patch on. So it took it off and went back to bed. But then I was too hot and couldn't get back to sleep, so I went downstairs to the living room to cool off. Stayed up for an hour and a half and didn't even think of having a smoke. Then realized I was up for good and went to go put the patch on. Not sure if I need it anymore, but I'd rather ween off according to the schedule. Heard movement upstairs so I went to go make coffe
IndigoChilde

IndigoChilde

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Father's Day

Father's Day BBQ was amazing! Once people started arriving I forgot all about smoking, which kinda reinforces that being alone triggers some of my craves. And especially once my sons arrived, I was ALL about them. I didn't care what anyone else was talking about, I was spending time with my boys. And my younger son, Alex, is a cuddle bug. My older son, Devin, isn't even too fond of kisses anymore. Soon he'll be too old for hugs! OMG! Anyway, we had Family Feud on, and since some answers involve
IndigoChilde

IndigoChilde

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Confession Time: Telling All by Sherri L.

TELLING ALL . ( caps are emphasis only)   OUT OF SIGHT , OUT OF MIND ? I Hid cigarettes in my coat pocket and convinced myself I didn't know how they got there. That was CRAFTY , SLY , UNDERHANDED , INTENTIONAL and I AM GUILTY . It never did help me quit .   The DELIBERATE ACTION : I Kept lighters ... threw away the smokes, and the ashtrays, but convinced myself that the lighter was still a necessity to have in the home. They arebut my thinking was much different . It was a DELIBERATE cours
MarylandQuitter

MarylandQuitter

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9 (now10) Ways To Effectively Use This Forum To Help Yourself and Others Quit Smoking

9 (now 10) Ways To Use This Forum To Help Yourself and Others Quit Smoking ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~   1. Learn about Nicotine Addiction ~Watch Joel Spitzer Videos HERE ~Read Allan Carr's, 'Easy Way To Quit Smoking' HERE ~Browse through THESE pinned QTrain threads and other threads filled with our quitting testimonies ~Watch THESE Big Tobacco Documentaries   2. Know You Are Not Alone In Fighting Nicotine Addiction.   3. Start a thread
Sazerac

Sazerac

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New Quit

So, quitting today was like a nightmare this morning. I woke up at 5am, stayed in bed until the urge to smoke got to me at 5:17, then went downstairs and put on the patch, then went about the rest of my normal routine until the patch kicked in. I'm finding out of HALT, Loneliness tends to be my reason to smoke. So after dad got up, had a cup of coffee, and went back to bed, I went and cuddled with him and mom in bed until about 7 when we all got up, then it was all cleaning the house and putting
IndigoChilde

IndigoChilde

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Yosemite

So, a while ago, back as a non-smoker, I went to Yosemite. It was beautiful out, even though it was cold at night. This time I brought warm pajamas and extra blankets. This was the last week in April. Unlike last year when we went there, I was actually able to hike up partway the mist trail. I didn't even get tired, we had to turn back because my dad's knee was giving out (there were a lot of slippery steps on the way up and puddles along the way) and my mom couldn't carry her bag up the steps,
IndigoChilde

IndigoChilde

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My anger issues + new fresh quit = explossive??

I'm blowing up so angry. Dunno why. I'm angry at the anger... Hold on, rewind: Fresh start, new STICKY quit and so friggin irritated, angry, Joel says it's normal... Is it? Am I finally feeling? Am I human enough, no longer the weirdo-- the mental health 'one'.   No, it's hormones, mix them with new medication, stick a new sticky quit in it: poof there's one big load of energy that needs to be out.   I'll be here, often this time :) Angry or happy or sad, just to let of steam
Evelyn

Evelyn

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Restarting my quit

This time I'm using the patch. I know there's mixed feeling about using NRT, but this morning I woke up and first thing I did was put on the patch. And I'm doing fantastic. My quit's never been easier. It helps my depression was figured out and I'm awake and alert now instead of down in the dumps. I don't miss cigarettes at all. I have small craves here and there, but they're horribly manageable for now. This is the best first day of a quit I've had. I feel marvelous. I even took two walks today
IndigoChilde

IndigoChilde

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Surprised by my will power

13 days now, and I just got through my second weekend as a non-smoker!   The weekend is the hardest because that's when there's the most free time. My old routine was to sit on the back patio in the morning with my husband and roommates. We would spend a couple hours sitting out there drinking coffee, smoking and talking together. I really enjoyed that. I've sat out there with them a bit since quitting, but it's not the same. I get bored and I watch them smoke and I think to myself "this is a
momobrick

momobrick

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Double digits baby, Day 10!

It's day 10 smoke free. I know it's not a long time yet, but in just 10 short days... who am I kidding, these were the LONGEST 10 days of my life. Anyways, in just 10 blank days, I've coped with a lot of emotions, moods, sensations, etc. Both good and bad. It hasn't all been horrible, but some of it was definitely was.   I know I am not done yet, but I feel like I am over a hump for some reason.   I started with the patch and gum as a safety net to get me through while I dealt with burying o
momobrick

momobrick

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Derailed for a bit but back on track...

Friday was to be my quit day... I was breezing along doing fairly well that day but had a bump in the road and I just imploded. Traumatic events that happen that early was just too much for me. On Saturday morning I had to put my beloved boxer dog Baxter down after only a couple days of illness so I had no time to even consider such a horrific outcome. He was 10 1/2 and I had had him since he was 4 weeks old and he was the love of my life.   I got back on the train though late yesterday aft
gloworm

gloworm

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Please, Take Your Lives Seriously !

Please, Take Your LIVES Seriously ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In 'real' life and here on the QTrain, I see people being careless about their lives and their quit, like they have all the time in the world ! 'I'll quit next week, maybe tomorrow, I'll quit again sometime'.   Are they not understanding how dangerous smoking is ? It's a friggin' Slow Suicide ! The ramifications are Horrible. This is no joke. Ask our beautiful friend, Doreen !   I, too, used to be casual about quitting, c
Sazerac

Sazerac

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