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Hello! I’m a refugee from QSMB and I see there are a few QSMBers here – so hello again! To recap: I quit from May 2016 for about 10 months with the support of QSMB before a relapse. Since then – and for the last year or so – I have made many attempts to quit: sometimes lasting just hours, sometimes days, sometimes weeks. I don’t struggle too much with craves (after the first day or so) it’s never clear what goes wrong. There just always seems to be a *reason * to smoke again, though I know that sounds nonsense. And having “just the one” always sucks me back into the trap. Anyway, I’m trying to replicate why my earlier quit seemed to work so well. One of the reasons was because I was on QSMB every day, sometimes just reading, sometimes posting about myself or helping others. It really helped reinforce the quit, and when I drifted away that’s when I relapsed. So here I am again, on day four. I’ll be hanging around ?

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Nope! Now why would I smoke on my son’s birthday? It’s a day of celebration!

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G'day NOPE to start today C

G'day NOPE for me C

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NOPE from me today.

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Nope! And just for today NONE! (Not One Number Ever)

Nope. Filling my lungs with goodness instead of chemicals.

Morning my lovely fellow Nopers. Welcome to the UN International Day of Families.... a time to reflect on our family and remember the good times or reach out to that odd relo and let them know they are valued (even if it is for their comedic contributions... although I'd suggest maybe not leading with that)... So hug ya fam bams and have a great day.... So here is a big huge cyber hug for my Quit Family at the Might QT.... And now for the important business... all together in the key of G Major (in recognition of @G67 overnight session of manscaping and his new look)... NOPE cos nothing controls me but me. Topic of the day: Waiting on the Northie tomorrow.... need me some shiny happy music still.

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Not today! NOPE!

Nope. Smoking is not an option.

Good morning? nope?

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I was walking around the shopping centre when I saw a sign saying 2pkts of Himlayan Pink Rock Salt $10. I followed the sign. When I looked up I saw the tobacconist. It was the same tobacconist where I had previously broken a quit at. The owner would illegally sell single cigarettes for $1. Before I could think my body flooded with chemical anticipation as I thought I could buy "just one" for old time sake. My quit would be in tact and I'd walk away laughing thinking "ha!" I'm such a good non-smoker, I can have one whenever and walk away. I momentarily gathered some sanity and pulled myself away from there and found my pink rock salt in the store next door. I did think to myself how close I came to f#$#$$ing up my whole quit. The positive is that I didn't, but it reminded me how easy this would be to do. I DON'T WANT TO GO THROUGH WITHDRAWALS EVER AGAIN! AND SMOKING WOULD LEAD TO WITHDRAWALS SINCE I DON'T WANT TO SMOKE! I thought I should write this down. It's important to process it for my recovery. Thanks for listening.

Good Morning my fellow NOPErs.... with today being National Numeracy Day in Ireland we should I thought it would be a perfect time for some wonderful Irish Mathematics.... But much more important than being able to count to 100, even if we can no do so in Irish, we must all follow the lead of Flyod Mayweather... because it doesn't matter what life throws at it the only answer is NOPE... nothing rules my life but me. Topic of the Day: Things I do To and/or for my family & friends.

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Good morning all, Hope everyone is doing well this wonderful smokefree morning! There is this one "cigarette crave" in my mind that is plaguing me. For most of my thoughts of smoking, most of the time, I can dismiss them before they become a crave. However there is this one that I have yet been successful in dismissing before it becomes a crave. There is this one... After dinner, with a cup of coffee or glass of wine, the perfect wind down from a good day or a bad day; so relaxing, just so niceeee. I made it... So everyday I go through the discussion with myself; gotta stop romanticizing this - nothing romantic about you cig; relaxing? hah, that is BS, etc and etc. But I have yet found a way to keep this thing from becoming a crave. For now, I either go swimming (which is relaxing, but not the same) or treadmill, which is not relaxing but I am able to take my crave out on the treadmill...lol. Perhaps after the nicotine receptors have been rendered incapable of hi-jacking my natural dopamine paths, this one will not seem pleasurable... P.S. But you are right Saz...I AM stronger than this crave

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Thanks Saz... always with finding the gold in the vault.... well let me add to those who have gone before: So the usual, I thought I loved smoking, I thought it was how I coped with stress, I figured I didn't drink or doing anything else anymore it was my only "thing", smoking let me justify taking me time (alone in the backyard), I had failed at quitting before and monumentally so at that by tossing a big quit so what was the point, I'd just toss any other quit...but the reality is I was scared. I knew I could quit because I had for pregnancy and feeding... but I was petrified of quitting, I don't just mean scarred of detox and failure and it being hard... I was paralysied with fear at the thought of quitting. I would have panic attacks to the point of hyperventilating and blacking out at the mere mention of maybe quitting. I was so scared of running out I am still finding secret smokes stashed in random places around the house 5 months after quitting.... I know it sounds irrational and it is but long story super short I had an extreme and rare reaction to champix that resulted in me developing an actual phobia to quitting. The logical, scientific part of me knew that there were a few different factors that had to line up in just the right order for the champix to cause the reaction it did, I knew this... but all my brain latched onto was that I took Champix to quit smoking, and scary xyz happened when I took champix to quit smoking ...so... quitting smoking is bad and dangerous and I shouldn't be doing it. Now sane rational Jo knew this was the biggest load of crap on earth but that's what was there in my brain... If I quit smoking it would be catastrophically bad and I would die... so, not wanting to state the obvious or anything... but I did quit, 5 months ago and omg surprise, surprise the world didn't come to a grinding halt and I did not die. Yep, pretty sure I still have a pulse and a heartbeat and I am not a zombie. for 9 years I clung to the fear that if I 'tried' to quit something bad was going to happen and I was going to die.... held on to this phobia as justification for not quitting. The thing is, even though I have proved this phobia is unfounded the fear still sits there and I am fighting it every day. Every day before I post NOPE I have a little mini panic attack that this will be the day. Any snuffle, or niggle, or slight ache, pain or cough has me convinced I am going to die and its because I quit. Every day. So I honestly feel like I nearly have the heinous b1tch of a nicodemon beat into total submission, she rarely raises her her to anything more than a passing "oh we'd like a smoke now" that is so pathetic it is laughable, and sometimes I actually do laugh at her... but then at the same time is this constant fear (despite all evidence to the contrary). So if my nopes are big and flamboyant and over the top they are that way because for me NOPE is the cornerstone holding me up... and my quit castle might be built on psycological quicksand but I'm not sinking, and quitting has not killed me.

Woohoo @justanotherme you are so close now to that Lido Deck... 11 months in the bag! Well done on all your work to get to that 11 month. Make sure you take the time to celebrate your achievement and spoil yourself rotten.

Mac, glad to hear it is just the one you need, I was concerned that you might be addicted.

With that, I'm gonna have to say NOPE...to NONE....off the win one for the sticks!

It's bloody tricky at times. Other times it's easy. I'm glad I'm not the only one doing this. Thank you Jillar. ? Yep round 3962. How do you kill an addiction. One crave, one minute, one hour, one day, one week, one month, one year at a time.

^^ Wot he said... Well bloody done with fighting the pull. Round 3,962 goes to Givvy... you are so rocking this... I hate the Tobies who are all about the $... my old Tobie is actually my biggest supporter... I still by my pre-pay recharges from him and the occasional can of softdrink.. (cans $2) every time I walk up he says "I no sell you smokes, you good girl now" and then asks what I wont. Thanks heaps for sharing too... its something we are going to face from time to time... and I bet he's charging more than $1 smoke these days too.... money in your pocket, head high, pride and quit intact.

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Being in denial was the only thing that stopped me from quitting. Not believing /understanding/realising that smoking kills. It took a young mum i know to get diagnosed with lung cancer to make me see the light. I quit in the week she was diagnosed. She died less than three months later, probably closer to two (i think i was in the 70's day wise). I think it no longer being a stranger that got lung cancer was very emotive for me. I quit spur of the moment. And when she died months later that just made my quit even stronger. I dont wanna be that woman. My reasoning above has allowed me a relatively easy quit so ive said it before and ill say it again....read up about all the damage smoking does but also how your body can repair itself. And read that over and over and over. Not being in denial is the simple key to my quit.

I, as many others, thought I enjoyed smoking. Coffee and cigarettes after lunch were, in my opinion, the best moment of the day. I couldn’t imagine writing or reading without it. Another reason was fear, resulting from lack of education. I had many short attempts that lasted two or three days. I didn’t know this was the peak and it’d get better and easier. Had I known, maybe I’d have persisted or at least try again sooner. What a waste ?

Great honest post Jo... Your chances of dying were so much higher when you smoked... In my early quit...pledging NOPE...was the most important thing in my life...I spent many a day ,shouting it out loud ,hundreds of times... Nothing wrong with a big long NOPE !!!..... Your doing great...you have 5 fabulous months !!!!

Just came in from a pub lunch with the Ladies.....great good ...great company !!!

I quit and failed so many times that I became convinced that I was also a hopeless addict who would forever be a smoker. Thank goodness to be free of that kind of slavery. At first it was just noping my way through each day, or sometimes it was moment by moment at thebeginning. quitting is tough but it is not impossibly difficult. I'm on some lung cancer message boards and sometimes read stories about patients smoking until their literal last breath when they simply could hold a cig or inhale anymore. At least I won't go out a smoker.

G'day Every time you face a crave and it fails and you prevale. 2 things happen. It gets weaker. You get stronger. Next time you meet you have the upper hand. C

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-20..... whoop whoop

Learning to pole dance for my Boo xx

Would you believe the one thing that hasn't changed is the wind up merchants?

We did, but would you believe they were wind up like our gramaphones?