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Genecanuck started following Saturday 3rd may 2025 and New to group
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HI @Heterophemy.. please come back and let us know how you are doing. No matter what is happening. You are either keeping your quit or you are struggling and still need support. Never quit quitting... we are here to support you. This is good advice from @Penguin "If you fall off the wagon, get back on it immediately. Just because you slipped off the wagon and fell into the mud doesn't mean you can't get back on, muddy boots and all. Even if you're still smoking, get yourself here and check in. Talk through it. You're going to get some tough love for it, but don't run away just because you've started smoking again (if that happens)".
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Schitts Creek No GIF.mp4
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NOPE!
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@Eli... nice to have you come back. I was a member of the old Quitnet back in 2003 to about 2014 ish.... I had started a thread here called The Quitnet Lounge where i was sharing some of the wisdom posts I had kept i my personal library. https://www.quittrain.com/topic/26599-the-quitnet-lounge/#comment-526771 Nice to meet you and thanks for coming back to Quittrain
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Pilgrim started following Saturday 3rd may 2025
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Nope. FN!
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SandiK started following Saturday 3rd may 2025
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NOPE for today!
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Paula B. started following Saturday 3rd may 2025
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By DOCMarkC --- 03-12-2009 5:19 AM I want you to stop trying to quit. Yes, I said that. Even more, I mean it. I browse around here and see post after post from people saying that they are "trying Chantix" or giving the gum a "try". Some are "trying to quit" for the sixth or seventh time. Others are quite positive. "I tried to quit many times before, but this time I'm going to try something different." Any of you who have played a sport with a coach can tell you that the coach NEVER said to you: "OK, I want you to go out there and "Try" to win. Give it a good "Try". If they did, then it was for a pickup game or T-ball or something that was more about playing than winning. At a job interview, you never tell your prospective employer that you are going to "Try" to be on time and be a good employee. You don't "Try" to keep your kids fed. This addiction you are breaking isn't a game. "Trying" is what you do when failure is an option. As Yoda put it! "Try not! DO!... or do not. There is no try." When you quit an addiction you do just that. You QUIT it. It means that you put it down and you don't pick it up again. I see many posts about backtracking or slipping up. Invariably the replies are encouraging rhetoric like "It's OK, everyone makes mistakes. Pick yourself up and try again" (That "Try" word again). Now I understand moments of weakness, and I believe in getting back on the horse, but think about a relapse and about having a smoke again! It isn't as if you tripped over a slipper in the hallway and fell mouth-first on an errant cigarette that had been left on the floor next to the fireplace where an ember jumped out and set the smoke alight while the dog jumped up and down on your back forcing you to inhale. You made a decision that the cigarette was going to fix this intangible stress. Years of conditioning had made that feeling almost subconscious, but it was with a purpose that you got out the smoke and lit it. That was giving up. That was starting the quit counter back to zero. You may have gone a day, a week, a month. But guess what? that no longer matters. Now you have to do it all over again. Was that worth it? After that one smoke were you forever better? I say what you do by "Slipping up" is strap yourself into the rollercoaster again. The nicotine is back in the system and your body is going to scream at you to keep it there. When it was gone your brain still had conditioning telling you that smoking made you happy, but it was a lie you could ignore. Now that lie is compounded with physical withdrawals again. Was that better? I quit almost a year ago. It was the hardest damn thing I have ever done. I was an Army paratrooper! An infantry medic in one of the most combat deployed units in the military. All of my training, survival testing, and combat was nothing compared to the will it takes to just not put the cigarette in my mouth. But I'm not "Trying" to quit. (Reposted with his permission. He asked that I mention he is on tiktok!)
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My quit is still going strong, I just don't have time to drop in every day. I'll drop by when I can.
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Hi @Penguin... sometimes moving on and focusing on your 3D life is a good thing. It just means that becoming a non smoker is your new normal. Just check in once in a while to let us know how you are doing.
Awesome that you are keeping your quit.
Regards,
Gene
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Pat yourself on the Back you bunch of Special Window lickers
Reciprocity replied to bakon's topic in Quit Smoking Discussions
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Minnie Mouse started following Pat yourself on the Back you bunch of Special Window lickers
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catlover started following Saturday 3rd may 2025
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Cbdave started following Saturday 3rd may 2025
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Pat yourself on the Back you bunch of Special Window lickers
johnny5 replied to bakon's topic in Quit Smoking Discussions