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Nope! Happy Thanksgiving to all the American peeps

Back seat Babbles here!! My last smoke was the same day my daughter told me she was expecting my first grand baby That was 6 years and 4 months ago...and I couldn't be happier. Kaylee will never know me as a smoker. The first year was very wobbly..even though I was committed to never taking another puff...that I knew for sure..but still...was not without struggling at times. Anyone currently struggling to get to the lido deck...hang in there! It truly does get easier

NOPE - Smoking sucks! Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate!

Almost 5 1/2 years. All is well with me, looking forward to the holidays. I don't post a lot, anymore, but I stop by at least once a day.

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8.00 PM (IST) I had my last smoke on the 19th June 2018, and woke up on 20th June quite pissed that I'm just kidding myself about stopping, and decided that's it, today's the day. 5 months quit now, had a few wobbles (as @Doreensfree says) but managed to get back up on my feet, more often than not due to the friends I have on here. My brother and sis-in-law had a baby girl last week and I travel to the States (Dallas, Texas) for the 1st one's birthday and meet this one in March 2019. Life's good, even if it kicks me in the shins now and then, I mean otherwise where would the fun be in living.

Pretty much all has been said in this thread really. I guess, for me if theres one thing i learned, i leaned im strong.

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NOPE!!!!!!!!!! Now for family, turkey, and some football (the turkey dinner, which I make, should taste so much better now)

nope Get well soon Cbdave

3 years ago tomorrow. 1st year was hell.....last 2 were heaven. Best decision EVER.

Nope. Smoking is never an option.

My quit has been 100% solid since Oct 6 2017 at like 5:30 AM. There have been plenty of moments though when i think "just one" or "why bother keeping the quit". Even as late as this week. But I have not caved in. My co-workers are still mostly a bunch of needle dicks who are trying to get me to smoke again. Not by offering me tobacco but just by existing. Numbskull idiots. We do have two new supervisors so it will be fun to see how long THEY last. thanksgiving is this Thursday and MY plan is to eat Chinese. My brother and sister might have different plans but I have my heart set. Doreen, about the time I came upon this little gem, the song "The perfect kiss" by New Order was playing. There is a part in that song with frogs croaking. If i saw this thing in real life, i would probably have to kill it before it laid an egg or whatever ugly green things to do reproduce. I am sure her personality is great but damn is that horrific and creepy.

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I've learned.... It's never too late...to make changes....to live life to the full....I'm stronger than I ever thought.... Smoking won't change anything.....I've also learned.....Life is so much better...without that black cloud Boo spoke of .....my shame of being a slave to the nicotine...has gone !!! I've learned ....I'm Worth It !!!!!

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My dearest QT family, As Jo rightly said, this month has been quite challenging, but c'est la vie...and I wouldn't have gotten through without the phenomenal amazing support I received on this forum. Each and every one of you has been instrumental in reminding me that I'm better than the situation I'm in. As BKP so aptly put it "Keep the quit, you're worth it". That line stuck with me and was something I kept repeating to myself throughout. Thanks to each one of you, you guys are amazing beautiful human beings. I know I've stated this before, but it is true...I am so glad I found this community. Loved each comment such an awesome thing to see before starting your workday

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I am learning just how amazing the human body is. The years of abuse it takes and yet it manages to show signs of improvement in a short space of time.

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NOPE ...and HELLO, JO!

That is exactly how I was thinking. I just never seemed strong enough to quit. So what have I learned. I am stronger than I thought and never too old to change. That there is this wonderful community of ex smokers who have been able to make me realize that I can do this. That I can also help someone else realize their self worth and guide them on the journey to freedom of addiction. I've also learned the importance of

I don't believe Eric would mind if I share his post, here. It is imported from QSMB. FILLING THE PAGES by Eric A common topic a quitter might talk about since they quit smoking, is the fact that there seems to be void in their life now. Now that they're not smoking it feels as if the days have grown longer and they are unsure of how to fill this time. Sometimes this can actually put stress the new quitter, because this is so unfamiliar to them. Cigarettes have been so deeply intertwined in their life for so long, that the new quitter is constantly being reminded that they no longer smoke just from everyday activities. They may ask how do they unwind after work now that they don't smoke? How do they deal with stress, now that they don't smoke? How do they punctuate finishing a task now that they don't smoke? For the smoker, that cigarette after finishing a task was like putting the period at the end of sentence. Now that they don't smoke, daily tasks can just feel like a long running sentence with no punctuation. The cigarette was also like the smoker's pause button. If they needed to concentrate on doing something or were under a stressful situation. They would step back, smoke a cigarette and think about how to resolve the problem. Now that they don't smoke, there doesn't seem to be a pause button for the quitter. That magic button that says" Whoa give me a minute" is now gone. Now they are just left with the situation and a very unfamiliar way that they now have to deal with it without the cigarette. One thing that should be pointed out though, is that we have lived our lives and dealt with stress DESPITE smoking, NOT because of it. There was a fellow quitter that was talking about this and it was really stressing her out. She was having a hard time dealing with stress and everyday scenarios without smoking. She was getting discouraged about this and felt that her life just felt kind of empty since she quit. She felt that there was now a void in her life. One thing she said though, that I thought was an interesting way to look at it, was that she said that since she quit smoking, was that she felt she now had to rewrite her life. When I read this, for some reason it reminded me of someone writing a screenplay about the day in the life of a smoker. This is what it might say. ----------------------------------------------------------------- THE DAY IN THE LIFE OF A SMOKER. Dear (anonymous) I'm just making this up, but let's just say this is how your typical day when you smoked would look like. You wake up. Smoke a cigarette. You get ready for work. Smoke a cigarette. You have breakfast. Smoke a cigarette. You get in your car and drive to work. Smoke a cigarette. You get to work. Smoke a cigarette before going inside. You go to coffee break at work. Smoke a cigarette. You go to lunch. Smoke a cigarette. You go to second break. Smoke a cigarette. Maybe something stressful happens at work. Sneak out and smoke a cigarette. After work, as you drive home, you smoke a cigarette. You get home and unwind. Smoke a cigarette. You cook dinner. Smoke a cigarette. After eating dinner. Smoke a cigarette. Have a glass of wine or beer and of course smoke a cigarette. Watch TV. Smoke a cigarette. Get ready for bed. Smoke a cigarette. Before going to bed. Smoke a cigarette. Let's say that it took 5 pages to write the screenplay "In the daily life of (anonymous)." Now that you don't smoke, you're not so much rewriting your daily life, but more of editing out a lot of useless dialog in your screenplay that isn't needed to tell the story. The problem is that now after all that editing, what use to take 5 pages to tell the story, now only takes 3 pages. Now you still have 2 blank pages that you're carrying around with you and you don't know what to do with them. This can cause anxiety. You have been so used to writing your daily life with 5 pages that writing it with only having to use 3 pages feels like there is a void in the story. Really take a look at the dialog that you edited though and put that down on the 2 remaining pages. Here's what it would say: Smoke a cigarette. Smoke a cigarette. Smoke a cigarette. Smoke a cigarette. Smoke a cigarette. Smoke a cigarette. Smoke a cigarette. Smoke a cigarette. Smoke a cigarette. Smoke a cigarette. Smoke a cigarette. Smoke a cigarette. Smoke a cigarette. Smoke a cigarette. Smoke a cigarette. Smoke a cigarette. Smoke a cigarette. Smoke a cigarette. etc, etc. You can see how useless this dialog is. It doesn't even help tell your story and on it's own it makes no sense. It's just repeated blabber. You have two choices now. You can either take these pages and just throw them away, because you no longer need them anymore. Or you can take these two remaining pages and add something to your story. Something that maybe you've wanted to add for sometime now, but just have never done it, because this addiction was taking up those two pages. These two pages are no longer being wasted on telling the story of your addiction. They are now yours to tell any story that you wish to tell. It isn't so much that since you quit smoking, that there is a void in your life. It is more that smoking created that void, because it took away from you. That was YOUR time being wasted, it was NOT being filled. Now that you have freed yourself from cigarettes, don't think of it as leaving a hole in your life. Think of it as giving back the endless possibilities of living life as YOU again. Also don't think that you need a cigarette to deal with life's stress. It isn't that you were able to deal with stress better when you smoked. It's just that you've done it for so long that way, that you are having to relearn how to do it without cigarettes. It's new and unfamiliar. Smoking under stress was a combination of relieving withdrawal, but it also gave you a minute or two to reflect on what was causing the initial stress. If you're under stress and where the times you would smoke a cigarette, what I would do is stop. Step back and give yourself a moment just like you would do when you smoked, but now breathe deeply, calm yourself and focus on what you need to do to alleviate what is causing the stress. Don't feel that if you're under stress that you have to attack it head on because cigarettes are no longer there to buffer what it happening. You can very easily do this without smoking. You can step back and give yourself a moment to collect yourself and you can do it without cigarettes. They are a useless middleman and you know that cigarettes don't relieve stress. They only relieve withdrawal. They don't deserve that kind of credit. You should be proud of yourself, because you have taken your pages back. The pages are yours now. Fill them any way you choose Eric

NOPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and yes this planet does have issues. Happy Thanksgiving.

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Just checking in. I don't always post but I'm always checking in. Was a tough few days there but I'm still in nope mode. Discovered yet another positive, snow storm coming and I don't have to worry about stocking up on cigs

Doreen, about the time I came upon this little gem, the song "The perfect kiss" by New Order was playing. There is a part in that song with frogs croaking. If i saw this thing in real life, i would probably have to kill it before it laid an egg or whatever ugly green things to do reproduce. I am sure her personality is great but damn is that horrific and creepy. I kinda think she kinda cute....a babe .....

Your missed around here ..!!!!

Can you video you cat's reaction to it for us for a nope??? OH Tuesday was a whole bunch of special days but I didn't like any of them and then I couldn't think of any interesting facts and well I just kinda never got me arse into gear so NOPE I did not do a very good NOPE..... but yep I did embrace the NOPE.

Legislation has already been passed in the European Union to ban menthol cigarettes and will be implemented May 2020. This has come as part of the European Tobacco Products Directive passed into law in May 2016. There is a rumour that as part of BrexIt this piece of legislation may be torn up. Personally I am for people to have their own freedom of choice, rather than state believing that they should make choices on behalf of everyone. Menthol allowed or not is kind of borderline though.

I hate cigarettes. I hate big tobacco. That being said, I don't think outlawing tobacco is the answer. Here in America at least, the prohibition of alcohol was an abysmal failure. Our "war on drugs" has been an exercise in futility that has stumbled in place for over a half-century. The law of unintended consequences always rears its head in these situations. Not only will we not alleviate the current smoking problem by banning tobacco, we will have to deal with a host of new issues arising from yet another black market. Ironically enough, programs intended to curb and eventually eliminate underage smoking are easier to implement so long as tobacco is legal. Ban tobacco and the black market will be a free-for-all.

Meathead?

Once you quit that cloud that hangs over every smoker's head is banished immediately. We all remember that cloud...filled with feelings of weakness, futility, fear, failure, loss of control over our own life, etc., etc. Good riddance to smoke clouds both literal and figurative.

Chris, sorry to hear this....It is good you are an ex-smoker going in for surgery, remember that! ? I had several tia's and then a stroke in 2017 that landed me in hospital...where I then started my quit journey. I opted for the stent over the roto-rooter chemical clean out of the artery...and watched the whole op while it was happening! Did feel better afterward! Stay strong, will be thinking of you!

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I put my last cigarette out at 11:59 AM on the morning of Sunday, November 16, 2014. I have to admit I was quite scared then but wow, NOPE actually works. I find nothing appealing about smoking anymore and hardly ever even think about it. I'm glad I put that crap behind me.

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Doing well, Lilly. Awesome.

that is why the first year is so important. I remember having this feeling even at 9 months...and I was PISSED!!!! Don't let that discourage you though...because looking back...it was one moment or two. Otherwise I was walking around happily as a non smoker for the majority of the day and I would get angry because a minute or 2 in my day I was feeling the itch...really??? But yea...it pissed me off and felt like it would never go away. That I was doomed forever because I was once a smoker...I would be cursed! Not true! It gets better...much better!!

I'm on the fence doing the yo yo thing like jo, but either ban nicotine or don't. Picking and choosing the flavors allowed, as well as mostly taking a let's wait and see if it causes people to grow horns and extra toes while their lungs deflate attitude towards e-cigs and vaping, isn't likely to accomplish much.

My condolences on the passing of your father. Please do not confuse thinking of and planning for quitting for actually quitting and trying to save your life. I have seen hundreds (thousands?) of people over the years use lengthy preparation as an unconscious method of avoiding the actual quit. The time to quit is now, and every cigarette is damaging and potentially killing you. You have everything you need to be successful right now. Christian99 Nearing 17 Years Quit

^^^^ Wow! That's a lot! Good for you. Just think how this will translate to other things in life for you

Nope! Once you master your quit, you will be able to deal with other annoying things in life - no problem!

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Aww buddie...sorry to hear this ....dam cigarettes..... I wish you speedy recovery.... We,ll keep your seat warm ....