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I'll be 50 next year. i don't want to think about how many dreams I couldn't afford over the years, while I continued to buy cigerettes. It's so suductive. It's only a few dollars at a time. I'm always going to quit tomorrow, next week, soon. Enough! I am currently doing a nutritional program where I cannot enjoy even a glass of wine - and wine and smoking was always unquestionably linked for me. So, this is it. We are a go. I am keeping on my nutritional program via a check in group and I hope this group will serve the same purpose for quiting smoking. I'm going to be able to meet my daughter in Hawaii at Christmas (she is in Asia, I am in North America) because I am not spending any more money on cigerettes. Then, next year, I'll follow some other adventure - because I will be healthy (I am not unhealthy, but healthier) and my pockets will have jingle. Thanks in advance for your support :)

Thanks! I don't know how to reply to individual comments - I need a button - something clear and obvious. So, just a general thanks for the info and encouragement. Day 2, feeling good :)

Welcome, Beth! Congratulations on your decision to quit!

Hi! I quit at 50. I am so happy I did it. I smoked since I was a teen and I kept putting off quitting too. You can do it!

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Welcome Beth sounds like.a good positive plan to me, have you posted an introduction in the intro section of the forum more people will see it there This blog section is a good tool to log your daily, weekly personal journey x

I think I've posted on this very thing not too long ago. I've not had so much the urge to smoke but dreams that I am smoking, or that I'm buying a pack of cigarettes, or actually see myself smoking a cigarette. Upon awaking, I am very disturbed to think that I broke my quit only to realize it was just a dream (or nightmare!). Why is smoking so much on my mind that I am dreaming about it? Could be stress level is just high right now and I used to smoke a lot during stressful times. I believed it was my way of "unstressing" a situation or my mind. I was very wrong about that. So, I feel great relief when I realize I didn't actually buy or smoke any cigarettes and blow my over 1 year quit. Now, how to get my mind off that nasty subject not being aware in the first place that it is there?

I always thought I had an addictive personality. When I was little I was addicted to sucking my thumb whenever I could even at school. My addiction led to three years of braces and a lot of discomfort, but I stopped sucking my thumb and got really straight teeth at the end.I replaced that addiction with another one, bitting my nails. My mum took take of that addiction coating my nails with a really nasty tasting polish. I now have the luxury to spend hours painting them and feeling pretty. My high school sweetheart was a smoker. As I was head over heels in love with him I found the smell and taste of stale smoke marvelous. I started smoking too, to look cool, sexy, mature and sophisticated. We broke up, I haven't seen him in years but the smoking stuck with me. I recently started thinking of quitting, after a discussion with a friend about our first cigarettes, I realised I have been smoking for years. After some quick calculations I was amazed at the amount of the cigarettes I smoked and the money I spent even when I was unemployed. Money I could have spend doing other more exciting things. How stupid I have been. I began realising how awful I smell, my clothes, my hair, my room. I looked at old pictures, I always have a cigarette in my hand, smoking... how sophisticated I looked (not at all). I did some research about smoking and smoking cessation and the benefits and read other people's stories of how they made the positive decision to quit smoking. I felt envy. I wanted to be like them. Could I? Would I? I definitely should. So here I am, turning a new smokefree leaf....