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Hello my beautiful smoke free creatures ! Wow. The Tardis is here to take us all to our favorite places in this beautiful world. There will be music and dancing and everything imaginable to taste and sip. Let me catch my breath. You know there's going to be some rockin' done. Thank you all so much for your posts of support and love and music. I am blown away and need the hankie I am saving for daughter's wedding. I have had five years of LIVING smoke free. Five years of relatively peaceful travel experiences. Five years of not freaking out that I didn't have fire and cigarettes. Five years of uninterrupted dinners, conversations with friends, concerts, theater. Five years of appreciating my senses and not stinking to high heaven. Five years of health for my lungs, my skin, my essential organs, my mind. Five years of excellent blood supply to lady parts. Five years of my brain dispensing appropriate rewards. Five years of not thinking about feeding my addiction 20-50 times a day. Five years of quality self-awareness. All of this makes me very happy. I am really proud of myself. I am far more confident, no longer relying on bravado and it is an honest, well earned confidence. I know myself so much better now. I'm not apt to fall for even my own bullshit. I know I can change. The thought of re-establishing my addiction is abhorrent to me. I will never be a slave again. I maintain my commitment to NOPE. Sometime a thought comes to mind, 'oh, I used to smoke during moments like this'. These thoughts are not a crave, trigger or a temptation. They are a vague memory, like I used to wear micro mini skirts and love beads. These are not for me anymore and the things that I used to do... well, I ain't gonna do that no more. This journey has been the most rewarding thing I have done for myself in my life and coming here watching new quitters find their power is one of my favorite rewards. Y'all are awesome. I respect each and every one of your heroic journeys. All of us have a special bond here and I am appreciative of the soulful camaraderie, the humor and the tears. When one of us builds a visible and successful quit, it is thrilling to see self confidence and power emerge. I am grateful for newbies and elders alike for showing everyone how to put nicotine addiction aside and live Free. Thank you, one and all. You are my troops and help me protect my quit. I am ever grateful. S

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I was just sitting outside watching the late afternoon sun and clouds and enjoying a simple serenity. I came to realize that I could smell autumn again. I remember that when I was younger I always enjoyed the smell of autumn. This may not seem all that impactful to others but it is huge to me -- many, many memories and feelings long suppressed have come back. One more thing that I am grateful for and can use if any cravings come along. Quitting smoking has brought so many simple pleasures back!!!!

Gday NOPE for today C

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Good morning NOPErs and welcome to Mole Day... well between 6.02am and 6.02pm it is Mole Day... now you might think this has something to do with those blind little rat things known to breed just so they can have a food source during winter, yep they eat their young, but NOPE.... Mole Day is one for the nerds, chem nerds that is... Mole Day celebrates Avogadro’s Number (6.02 x 1023). Huh???... well for those who didn't do chem or who slept through chem or who left school and never thought of chem and periodic tables again... a MOL is a unit of measure in chemistry, it is how one measures the mass of a molecule. Its really important to know this if you are wanting to make things that go boom.... or pass your end of year chemistry exam... For a given molecule, one mole is a mass (in grams) whose number is equal to the atomic mass of the molecule. For example, the water molecule has an atomic mass of 18, therefore one mole of water weighs 18 grams. An atom of neon has an atomic mass of 20, therefore one mole of neon weighs 20 grams. In general, one mole of any substance contains Avogadro’s Number of molecules or atoms of that substance. This relationship was first discovered by Amadeo Avogadro (1776-1858) and he received credit for this after his death. So thank you Amadeo for coming up with your special number... it was so much for fun 6 months of my life... never to be thought of again until now. Starting your day with conveluted chemisty constructs or starting it with a smoke.... Both are a NOPE .... cos even in chem speak its still has power.

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Triggers can come out of nowhere, and in order to understand them and beat them down, you have to expect them, or recognize them for what they are - just a habit that you need to break. Here's an interesting example. I was over six months into one of my previous quits, working on a baseball diamond preparing it for our Opening Day games. A friend of mine was running a Bobcat loader moving some dirt onto an infield - something we do every year. He brings it to the diamond with the loader, I spread it out on the infield with the field groomer. In previous years, anytime he would leave to go get more dirt, I'd reach for a smoke. He turned and left, and I reached for Salem Lights. Except this last time, I didn't have any because I hadn't smoked in months! But the trigger was there, and I fell for it for a second or two and reached for the pack without even thinking about it, recognized what it was and had a good laugh, happy that I was still smoke free. Like I said, a trigger out of nowhere...

Congratulations @Sazerac for being nicotine free for 5 years. Welcome to the Tardis for you 5 year anniversary, I've bought in some catering and alcohol and there is a lively band in the corner. No tin cans on the water for you. Five years is a wonderful example and thank you so much for still sticking around to show us newbies coming behind the way. Your posts and the old ones you bump when someone needs it are so very helpful. So I think you can consider the Karma count on your selfish tobacco usage expunged by all the time and effort you put into freeing others from the addiction. So make sure you spoil yourself extra specially this anniversary, it is half a decade after all. So tell us... 5 years that's gotta be one hell of a good feeling...

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HA ! October 23 is a very good day, like all the days, to be FREE ! NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE

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Smoking covered and muffled all our senses, it is such a pleasure to hear of your re-discovery. Breathe deep your magnificent Autumn !

I remember when my sense of smell and taste came back, funny thing is I didn't know it was gone until I got it back! Enjoy your Autumn smells

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Our bodies have memories, conditioned responses to feelings or situations and addiction makes full use of this. It takes a while to change all this up. You are right @Baseball Coach, "they are just a habit that you need to break' ...just a habit that you CAN break. Congratulations on your quit, Coach, good to see you around.

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Five years! Sally has written many beautiful, splendiferous and wise words for the QuitTrain but this is my favorite thing: One of the best things I have learned by quitting smoking is how to change and this has bled into all parts of my life. How to change and groove on the good foot. Change with Grace. Changing to make myself a better person, a happier person, a more grateful person, a Clearer person, a more honest person. A more compassionate person for sure. Five music for Sally https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHdU5sHigYQ

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Wow !!!!......how the years have flown by..... 5 years we have sat on this fabulous train..it's been a fantastic journey....it been so much fun... It's my pleasure to celebrate this special! day with you..... Congratulations Sis ....

Well done saz! And thanks so much for sticking around to help us newbies.

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Congratulations ...5 years.... We don't see much of you now here ,but we would love to help you make this day very special..... Your a inspiration ...Oh ya !!! And you have the most two cutest kids that were way of the cute scale...as I remember.... Do something good today .!!!!

It's these small things that often make the biggest impact on us as we transition through the seasons of the first year of our quit. Enjoy to the max M5

Can relate. The southwest desert has a smell like no other this time of year if you get out of the city Delightful! Enjoy your quit and hang in there! Best wishes.

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We will not amass any serious defense of your takeover here in Canada providing, you keep those fricken giant, man-eating spiders down there in Queensland. Don't you dare send them here or we'll be forced to retaliate with this ............ No way they're surviving that!!

Stop the press! Breaking news: Sazerac has traveled in time to a place where freedom and regained health reign supreme. 5 years is quite a distance to travel from the claws of that evil addiction. Congratulations and thanks for all the good you do here.

well done Sally!! You have been a blessing here on the quit train! Thanks for all that you do!! Babs

and here we have @Joe7 styling the latest in fall knit ware....

Congratulations sazerac! You are a wealth of information & support to fellow quitters! Rock on, Superstar! ??

Congrats, Saz!! 5 years quit and you are still here helping those of us following your example...kudos to you! Celebrate your success and KTQ! ?