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notsmokinjo Quit Date: 28/11/2017   Posted March 3, 2020    I know there are a few threads already about the unexpected gains we got from quitting BUT I'm too lazy to go hunting, besides when ya do you tend to fall down a rabbit hole of rereading some bloody good posts...well I do..anywho ..was reading an old post and it got me thinking (no it did not hurt)...   Did quitting change who I am? Has it opened life opportunities that weren't there previously? 
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Cigarette Butt Emissions

Sazerac Members  14.3k Quit Date: October 23, 2013, A Good Day to be Free. Posted February 6, 2020    Butt Emissions: Study Finds Even Extinguished Cigarettes Give Off Toxins   January 29, 2020   This specially built smoking machine was used by NIST scientists to measure the emissions that come off cigarette butts long after they've been extinguished. Cigarette butts pile up in parks, beaches, streets and bus stops, places where all typ
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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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addiction or habit ?

...   Posted July 22, 2014    Sometimes I do charity work for a homeless shelter. A really good friend of mine runs it and I help her out whenever she needs it. In the last 2 weeks, she has called me in twice. Seems she is getting an influx of abscesses from IV drug abuse. The first one I saw was from heroin abuse. 23 years old with a 4 year old little boy that she doesn't have custody of any more. The second one I saw last night. She has already lost one arm in an infection
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Day 10-16

Hey everyone,   The site was down, but I didn't quit. Although I must say, it was and still is quite difficult at times.   However, it has now been nearly 17 days since June 6, 2024, when I finally succeeded in quitting. I feel amazing. I mean, I sleep less, I am more confident, I do lots of things, and I believe the addiction is getting weaker day by day. It still requires some struggling and inner discussions from time to time. But convincing myself to go and buy a smoke af
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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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Day 8,9 - Energy is back

Hey, so energy and mood got much better. Feels like I flew through some turbulences of finishing 1 week but now the sky is much brighter currently finishing 9 days and feeling very good. So nothing to say much really, just keep going   Guys, when do you think I can consider this addiction as beaten? 2week, 1year, never?   Thanks.  
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Day 7 - One week done!

Hello, I finished my first clean week. This is an incredible achievement for me.   Energy Level Changes:   First 5 Days: I was full of energy. I could read all the news, go to the gym, run, work, sleep for only 4 hours, and talk all the time.   Day 6: I experienced huge cravings and spent the whole day thinking I might fail. However, I still went to the gym and replaced the craving with some burgers and a good night's sleep.   Day 7: My energy crashed. The
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Day 6 - Craving turbulence

Hey! I am getting through very difficult period in my job, having season right now, busy asf. Well that does not help very much, but I am steadily reaching 6 clean days in 6 hours from now. Morning run, cold shower is already an automatic routind and seemes to help me.    Overall, mornings are very powerful, positive and full of energy. I dont sleep too much, but feel very energetic, which is always being felt afternoon where energy going a bit down acravings are quite strong yesterday
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Day 5 - Stress in work, thoughts about nicotine

I must say, today is very difficult. As yesterday seemed easier. But it would be kind of stupid to fail again, so I dont have much a choice. I am trying to focus on all those positives, that I wake up with energy and motivation, my brain is functioning better. So lets keep going.   Some chocolate and food helped me today to go through. Mood is not the best, but closing 5 days in around 4 hours and that gives me a good prospect. 
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Day 4 - Running, Donating Plasma, and Forgetting the Count

Hello there, it is currently 12pm lunch time and very busy day. I was running in the morning, cold shower and donatet blood plasma as I do every 2 weeks. Also it is monday so my mailbox is crazy. However, I can happily say that it is now 3 days and 16 hours clean and going for 4 days with confidence   Also, evenings in general are very difficult, Huge headache yesterday before sleep. But mornings are now very positive and easy, sleep is better and I didnt even realize this mornin
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The Addiction is Real

Gus Quit Date: 3-17-21   Posted 1 hour ago -(edited)   Sorry to hear @Breath-of-Power. This addiction is real. It is powerful. I don’t know how much time you’ve spent reviewing the information about nicotine and the additives that cigarettes contain, but the stuff literally rewires your brain. Your brain. That organ that controls everything about you. After the nicotine withdrawal it’s what you will be fighting against. Of course it’s going to fight against reconditionin
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Day 3 - Dreams and morning wood

Hello hello hello, it is currently sunday 7:13am time in Prague, Czechia. I am about to go through another 12 hours shift, today I forget my chewing gums home, but I did not take any money with me so I cannot buy any kind of vape or nicotine  So I should be fine today and get through day 3 smoothly, hope so! Yesterday evening my mood was pretty down. Mornings seem to be better with quitting, more optimistic.   About this night, I did have a really deep sleep from 9pm to 3:33am and then
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Day 2 - It is not getting easier (obviously)

Well good morning to you all. I did manage my first real craving yesterday after gym and sauna. I did not want to sleep, I think I slept like 3-4 hours only and my mind is racing but..I feel more energy than if I slept 8-9 hours. So at this moment we have 8:30am in Czechia, I am in work today since 7am and clean from nicotine currently 1.5 day to be precise it is 36.5 hours.   Today I work 12 hours, have some things to do and also watching finals of WTA French open, something to look f
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Day 1 - First challenge

Hello, today is my first whole clean day ahead. I am now 13 hours clean and finished my morning running with cold shower, getting into work and got my sugarfree gums ready to get through this day. Even getting through 1 day for me is something almost unachievable before, I almost never did the whole 24 hours. So if you see me here after that, I guess we are on a good way and I already gave my promise today...so I think I will make it.   Anyway, will keep it active and share my thoughts
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Day 0

Alright, I have failed maybe thousand times with nicotine, it is torturing me for already 12 years, since I started in my 18. It is now time to use the forum and power of network to quit once for all. So today 8pm I put nicotine away and going to post my thoughts, struggles and progress on the way. Welcome  I hope this might one day help to someone, but first I need to help myself. Nicotine cost me not only health, tons of money and relationships, but also caused very bad situations along the wa
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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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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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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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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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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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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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To NOPE or not to NOPE

Cbdave Quit Date: 10th oct 2015   Posted February 4, 2019  G’day I’m cbdave and more often that not I get to raise the NOPE pledge of a morning. Being close to the international date line and living on the east coast of Australia means that I get to see the new day a lot earlier than most. If I’m off fishing it can be really early as I hate my phone smelling of fish bait. It wasn’t always that way. I never posted a NOPE on the QSMB board in those first months. 
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