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A big fat NOPE. NOOOO! NOPERDENOPE!!

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Nope, for Mom!! Sept 12th. My Mom passed away on this day just 2 years ago. She was 81. She was a smoker but quit 17 years before her death. We all miss you Mom!

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Greetings fellow NOPErs... today is one of those nothing fantastic days.... there are a few shout outs but none really make me want to give them a nod... so here goes... Video Game Day ... NOPE... but then again, video games are a great way to get through those early days of a quit when you need lots of distractions. Chocolate Milkshake Day .... NOPE.... not really into the milkshakes... don't mind a spider but milkshakes never really floated my boat... but then again, a nice yummy chocolate milkshake (with malt) could be a good reward for KTQ... just a nice little weekly nod. Quiet Day ... NOPE ... nothing to redeem this, I don't do quiet... QUIT day now that would be a goer... So if you want to celebrate one of those special days have at it, me I'm just gunna.... NOPE .... cos nothing tastes better than freedom.

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Gday NOPE again C

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Gday NOPE starts my day C

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I am 8 months also and agree with what Sslip states. At this point I am somewhat comfortable with my quit but not totally confident. I feel I have much to learn still with 44 years of smoking behind me so I know there are still hidden triggers that I have to on guard for. I waiting to get through the next month or so (big time of smoking "enjoyment" from this time of year, end of summer beginning of fall). I fully expect to make the turning point -- but taking it one day at a time and realizing how far I have come!!

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Nope here too.

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Praying, Praying, Praying. Anyone is welcome to hunker down with us in boring old Ohio (we do have the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame).

Thanks Everybody, I haven't been login in as much as I used too, but I'm still smoke free and now it seems like long ago those initial cravings. Thanks again!

Gday Yes I quit with Champix. Like others have said it's a tool you have to supply the motivation to remain quit. Not One Puff Ever is me. Im nearly 3 years into rest of life quit....I've gained so much and never miss trying to kill myself with smoking. C

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For myself it was over a year when i got drunk and had no urge to smoke, i was afraid of alcohol that it would trigger me wanting to smoke. I had quit in the past which i had mentioned but i was also avoiding certain triggers. After meeting the triggers head on and flat out saying NO which we do our pledge of NOPE on here i felt confident. To you and sslip, at times even now for myself certain things pop up and I just learned not to reach for them. Thats the difference for me, I'll go for a walk or work out and accepted i had that addict brain and you know what ... Having an addict brain is OK. We're all human and are born to make mistakes.. @Sslip

Be safe everyone that is in its path

Some idiot is out walking a cat, on a leash, in the rain. Coffee in one hand, slippers and the dumbest part- smoking. My job is like living in Wally World.

Man...I knoe THAT feeling??

I don't want to sound cocky but I,too, knew the minute I put out my last cigarette. Then, again, around the 4 month mark, I told jillar that I'd see her on the lido deck?

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Although I was firm in my commitment to myself never to smoke again right from the first, I think it was about 6 to 7 months in before I really knew I had turned the corner on this addiction and that I had faced pretty much every battle it could through at me. From that point forward I was somehow just more confident that I wouldn't waver in my commitment to quitting.

Hey Garry! We are all special in our own way because we are who we are. Whether we were planned or not ..... who really knows? I don't know if I was or not either. I'm a June baby and sandwiched between twin sisters and a baby brother so I was kind of in no man's land as a kid. You know, that kid in the middle? Never cared much about that because I was OK with who I was and embraced life with as many others outside my family circle as I could. Glad to know you as a non smoker and I am happy you are here with the rest of us winners

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That's a monster storm for sure. Get out of it's way sooner rather than later if you think you might be in it's path! Look at how it's affecting all the weather patterns around it too! That's a huge chunk of the Atlantic and Caribbean oceans that are seeing some sort of impact to weather patterns Stay safe Johnny! Hope you and all your folk fair OK through this storm

Confession: Some days its really hard to maintain the vaccuum for stupid comments and not respond.... REAL HARD.... ? ... surely saying nasty, negative shit just to bring someone else down can't make you feel better about yourself.... it just runs so against my nature to sit back and say nothing... I'm feeling like a volcano ... ready to blow.

Personally I had a very bad experience with Chantix (called Champix in Aus) but I have 3 friends who have had great success with it. One was a smoker of 40+ years and at least a pack a day and she did Chantix and has been quit now for 5 years. The other had 2 goes at chantix, the first time he didn't do the full 3 scrips course just the first 2 and his quit was not sticky... a few years later he went back and tried it again and is now 2 years smoke free, but he says you have to do all 3 courses. I have another friend who is currently 10 months smoke free after smoking for 30+ years. She has tried many times to quit and never gone beyond a month or 2, she swears by it. I also have friends who it was not successful for... because they didn't do the full course, all 3 scripts, or they thought it was a magic cure all that was going to just stop their addiction and craves and they would be a non-smoker. From my friends who have had success with this they all treated it as a tool to help them quit that was just something to ease things, not something to just turn of the smoking urge. They went in with realistic expectations, expecting to have to fight craves and urges and 'wanting' smokes. The were realistic that it wasn't going to stop all or that but it might just make it easier. All of them saw this as there last chance and all or them had health issues which smoking was impacting so they had incentive to boost there dedication to the quit. While its not for me... I have seen it work for others and if you think you need something to help push you over the edge to success then go for it. I know we have others here who have used it so hopefully one of them will come in to chat. Make sure you discuss any other medications with your doctor in detail and make sure they check to make sure there are no clashes. Stay close to your doctor because there can be side effects, some common some not, but if you are using this method please do it with your doctors regular support. There is no wrong way to quit, there is no right way to quit.... a quit is a quit is a quit... you can do this and be successful.

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