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G'day NOPE... Not One Puff EVER When you start out that "ever" bit sounds a bit daunting. Just have to resist each cig like your doing now and you earn that "ever" bit. You can wear it proudly! Its yours and you earnt it. C

I don’t know who used the term garage doors to refer to encountering previous situations in which we used to smoke through. While the terminology is weird the concept is not and I’ve found it helps me to be prepared when I’m encountering a new situation. People on on this board have seen me post when I needed to do new things like take a flight etc. I feel a little bit childlike doing this but it is preferable to finding myself with a fag hanging out of my mouth again. (That’s so attractive). Next weekend I am moving house. Do part of the preparation, besides packing is checking in with the quitting crew so that my head gets in the right place. Something about new situations that have old associations or something can be a bit of a trigger. So so wish me well peeps. My anxiety has been up and I’ve come come back here pledging daily again to keep my quit. I guess a reminder that that quitting isn’t an event that happens once.

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Happy Milk chocolate day, my favorite chocolate NOPE!

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Morning Nopers did we all see the red moon.... so today is Milk chocolate day.... meh, only decent chocolate is dark... although after coating 200 truffles in chocolate over night I don't think I'd be into any chocolate day today. NOPE ... not today, not tomorrow, not ever, forever

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Congratulations to our loveable, crazy kangaroo on your 8 months smoke free jo! You have been through so much these last few months and still held on to your awesome quit. You are an example for everyone that no matter what life throws us we can handle it smoke free! Have a great day my friend and PLEASE do something special just for yourself!

Congratulations @zenith for being smoke free for 2 months. Well done on being quit now for two months. You are doing such and awesome job of building you quit and keeping it. Would be great if you could pop in and let us know how you spoilt yourself to celebrate this fantastic achievement.

Gday its NOPE for me today C

I feel GREAT. Sometimes a vague slight headache and minor intestinal re-adjustments. Nothing to write home about. It was horribly rugged the first 4/5 ? days and I would recommend crawling under a rock for the de-tox but, damn....everything feels so much better and clearer, I am amazed. I am also taking my vitamins and getting added boosts. How are you PorkChop ? Really cranky, I would guess and maybe in a fetal position with a hot water bottle. Hang in there. Take your vitamins. Take walks to get innards moving. Remember this discomfort (ahem) is temporary. I'm sorry if you are hurting, it isn't a picnic, I know. It is worth it. S

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My view of it too lol...nice clouds ...

Soooo I'm sitting here thinking about our once in a century lunar eclipse and how thankful I am that the planets all aligned and picked me to be on this wee twirling ball at this time to see the blood moon in all its glory.... And how fantastic it was, and I didn't want to keep it to myself so I will share my picture with you lucky peeps... it was taken at the pinnacle of the eclipse....!!!!

High Boys ...... are those the same as "Tall Boys"?

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Well, Quitting is a single event, but after you quit what follows is a process of separation and recovery from the addiction. In your first year, you will experience many triggers and stressful situations where you may be reminded to smoke. Each time you confront these triggers and do not smoke, you win. That is how we eliminate triggers, and handle stress as non-smokers. Each time you do that, you find more and more freedom as you stay quit longer. Be grateful you have quit, because smoking always made stressful situations even more stressful. I am sure you will be fine with your move. Just remember that smoking would not in any way help your move, or decrease the stress. It offers to you no benefit at all. Recognize these lies the addiction created in the reptile part of your brain, and keep going with your move, and your life. Never forget, in any situation that you believe may challenge your quit, that as long as you keep your quit, tomorrow will always be better than today. The farther you move in time from your last cigarette, the more beautiful life becomes in terms of freedom, mental, physical, emotional and spiritual health. Cristóbal

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Yep. Moving is stressful. However, I haven't had a single smoking thought through the whole process of moving. There hasn't been any time for it. Staying busy is one of the best ways to avoid cravings and moving will keep you very busy. You finish one job and there's twenty more waiting to be done. You'll be fine GITW. Just remember: lift with your legs and don't put anything in your mouth and light it on fire.

Three hour kayaking, canoeing and paddle boarding sesh for me. Omg that paddle board! It was harder than i thought ? really cool though, a good day.

Hi Giveintowin For many of us there seems to be no shortage of the type of trigger situations that you describe that can make you feel vulnerable after quitting. It seems to help you when you post in preparation for these situations, so it is probably a good thing that you continue to do so. No need to feel child like about it. A quit can end so quickly. Probably better to stick with the things that have been working. I think it is also a good thing for many others that you post about these things. Thanks. I hope you have an easy move.

Awesome news Saz... and always best not to stroke out. @StewieTech hang in there, you are half way through the four days of hell... you have this my friend.

Now guys ...come -on.this is a serious keep fit thread ...behave whahaha!!!!!..

GITW, keep on keeping on, you got this...just as you got through that SOS awhile back! ? Being prepared for different scenarios is key to lessening anxiety and you are doing that! As my first scuba instructor drilled into us..."Plan your dive and dive your plan! " ...since dropping into a new environment could one day mean the difference btwn life and death for a diver who didn't have a plan!

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Well this place has changed a lot since the last time I was here!! I don't know if anyone will remember me. I haven't been on of ages, but I have now hit four years smoke free. Well, in April anyway! Lol. I just felt I would like to post. For anyone out there that are going through the quitting process now. It is soo worth it. Four years on. I have no interest in smoking. Nothing at all. I use to smoking 30 a day and started when I was 16. I'm now 43 just. I never thought I could quit, but places like this are a life saver, no way would I have managed to if it wasn't from the support of people that had gone through it before me, and they do it out of the goodness of their hearts. Seriously though. Do this, do it now. There is life after smoking, a better life too. Just keep putting one foot in front of the other and you will get there ?

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I would like to add that if people had to go and register with their doctor as an addict to be able to get cigarettes, it would take the illusions away that smoking is normal, maybe even sociable or even attractive etc. When you smoked in public you would be saying to you the world that I’m an addict and my doc wrote me a note so I can keep breathing in this harmful thing and I haven’t found a way yet to stop doing it.

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Whoop whoop Give, congrats on 9 month, keep up the fantastic work ?

Purple Unicorns... nope one asleep on the couch now.... Puppies that know how to behave ? ... it was a long night.

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Welcome to the club, my friend. Yes, my life may be sunshine and rainbows now, but I struggled for a long time. You are no more addicted to nicotine than I -or anyone else here- was. We have all been through this. Commit to your quit. I mean really commit and you cannot fail.

Happy tenth KT, congratulations on 10 months of grit over old nic...way to go!!!

As a 60 something Atheist and nicotine free, all I can do is encourage you to stop smoking. We are here for all kinds of support.

I'm tired of the dogma that government is intrusive, self-serving, and just needs to keep out of our lives. (Not to say they're perfect by any means). Let's point out a few areas where governments have actually saved lives and served the public welfare. Ban on thalidomide in the 1960's. In 1957 thalidomide was first released as an over the counter sleep aid in Germany. By 1960, thalidomide was marketed in 46 countries, with sales nearly matching those of aspirin. Around this time it began being prescribed off label as an effective treatment for morning sickness in pregnant women. It wasn't long before hundreds of babies were being born with phocomelia (malformed limbs). In 1962, the FDA banned thalidomide before it was ever officially approved for use in the US (although clinical trials resulted in hundreds of babies born with birth defects). Most countries followed suit in subsequent years, but not before over 10,000 children were born with severe birth defects (half of whom died in infancy). Mandatory seat belt laws. In 1975 it became law in the US that drivers and passengers were required to wear seat belts. The CDC has estimated that in the US alone, this regulation has saved approximately 645,000 lives since it's inception. Lead paint ban. In 1978 the Consumer Product Safety Commission banned the sale of lead paint in the US. Unfortunately, nearly all houses built prior to 1960 have lead. There is NO safe level of lead for children. According to a recent Lancet Public Health study, over 400,000 deaths per year are caused by past lead exposure in the US. Without this ban, untold millions more deaths would happen over the coming decades. So, if governments want to slap on new anti-smoking regulations, taxes, restrictions, etc. I'm all for it. Without the public health and safety agencies protecting our food, air, drugs, and environment, I shudder to think what the unfettered corporations would be doing right now in pursuit of the almighty buck.