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Congrats Matt! That challenging 1st month is behind you now! Be sure to celebrate this amazing accomplishment before starting out on month 2

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Same here. In fact, I didn't really think about the cost of a pack when I was smoking. I'm typically careful with my money and watch closely what's going out compared to what's coming in. Not when it came to smoking though. I had to have my smokes and would pay the going rate regardless. Addiction controlled every other aspect of my life so it makes sense that it would control my wallet as well.

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I had my last cig on 2/10/17 while standing outside a friend's truck waiting for him to open door for me....we had just left Urgent Care office and I was told I was in the throes of a stroke, my friend was taking me to hospital. I smoked it halfway and then flung the butt into a snowbank and said "that's it, no more smoking for me!" Since then I found out that damage had been done to my arteries - the following year I had a triple bypass open heart surgery. I thank god that I quit when I did!!

I had known for sometime that I had needed to quit. Then a long talk with my doctor and then another long talk with her nurse over the phone (all based on test's and symptoms) that I had really needed to quit. I thought long and hard and realized that the doctor and nurse were being really concerned not just preaching from the normal medical standpoint that smoking is bad for you but really concerned about my health and well being. I told the nurse I would think about it and discuss on my appointment in the next couple of weeks. Well about a week from that appointment I woke up in the morning had a cigarette and saw I only had a couple left --- instead of going to the store I though about the doctor/nurse talks and did not go to the store -- have not smoked since. Needless to say when the doctor asked a week later about what I needed to quit I told her that I was a week into my quit (ever since that day my doctor and I have had a much better relationship and is always on the look out for medical problems more so now). That was also the day I found this sight and stuck to it to educate myself on all things to do with quitting and feel that it was a true life saver. Anyway kind of long statement but it is what it is and I am proud to say I am a non-smoker -- something I thought I would never be able to say!!!!!

Randomly tossed the rest of the pack out the window on the commute home from work ( go ahead - arrest Sarge ... he littered ... ) and haven't looked back since. Unplanned. Unforseen randomness. Sarge admits to thinking about it for months prior (due to a bad Doc Visit (High blood pressure, high cholesterol, pre-diabetic - ( all the metabolic and health/lifestyle bullshit we're free to change but rarely do)), but it just sorta ... happened ... completely at random one otherwise un-noteworthy day on the ride home from work. It's been 8 years. It'll be a lifetime to go ... EZPZ

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How many of us didn't say at some point; "I'll quit when a pack of smokes costs (fill in the $ number)!" Then we made an excuse to continue when the price got there.

That price is insane.....but I would have probably paid it too. The addiction is real.

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I can't believe I paid $6.00 a pack. I don't know how anyone could afford the habit at that price. I am so glad to be spending my money elsewhere!

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I think it's the same way for all of us Martian! Different circumstances perhaps but always the same pride of accomplishing something we never thought we could or would. Great feeling eh?

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Congratulations Matt. That first month is the toughest. Keep up the great work!

YAY ! Congratulations, Matt on your First Month of Freedom ! Stay close, tell us where you're at, and hold tight to NOPE. Rewards Rewards Rewards !

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My daughter was visiting from Australia..I told her about this pain in my ankles and they looked bruised.. Of course I was forced to the doctor's .... Basically told Quit smoking ..like ...now ....or face the consequences......possibly amputation ... There's nothing like pure Fear .to bring on a sticky quit ... We got home ....my daughter begged me to quit with tears rolling down her cheeks ... I've never had a cigarette since that morning I made a promise ...and i kept it ... Kept my feet too ... I found a forum ,met the most wonderful lady ,who took me under her wing .... read Allen Card too... And a promise ...

I was a big fan of the original "Law and Order" back when Jerry Orbach played on there. I don't care for the newer spin-offs of that series. The last time I was sick enough to stay home from work, I found a cable channel that showed those old shows all day. It's damn near impossible not to get a little paranoid watching those things. I asked Sugar Britches if she had any plans to either kill me or have me murdered. She answered: "Not yet." Not really the answer I was looking for, but I'll take it.

Trying to get thru all the familiar times that I would smoke -- The times that I "enjoyed" smoking and getting that type of thinking out of my head, that I really could be a non smoker!!!! As well as much of what is said thru out this thread!!!

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Didn't even save me a Big O ? y'all aren't so much fun to play with. sigh. Congratulations on your MIGHTY win. ONE

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One month ...done and dusted .....

Way - to - go .... Everytime you do ..what you did ...when you smoked it will get easier ,until it comes the norm ... In no time at all ...you won't even think of a smoke ...onwards ...

Embrace The Suck....let your body do it's healing. Give yourself a chance ! NOPE

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I'm sure I joined QSMB when I quit and I'm sure you were there johnny5? I've always thought you seemed familiar from that time. I actually second Allen Carr's book even though I didn't quit based on that now. I did once quit based on reading his book for nearly a year though (until I got cocky and thought I am no longer addicted)

I knew I needed to quit so I prepared by quitting smoking in the spots I normally smoked so that when I did quit I wouldn't associate those places with smoking. Mainly my garage. Then on Memorial day weekend 2016 I just decided not to buy anymore cigarettes. I didn't tell anyone until about day three when I told my husband. Him being a never smoker helped by going with me if I had to go out because I didn't trust myself not to buy cigarettes.

Really enjoying the smoke free life I'm putting together. Wife and I rode our bikes to the community center pool today, then rode back home. Cooked outside for both lunch and dinner. Football and baseball on the couch. Starting to really see that it's up to me to invent my new life. When you quit, you are left sitting around with a "hole" in your life. You are just waiting to smoke, and can't. But six weeks in I don't even think about smoking when I'm doing one of the "new" things. Exercise. Leaving the house. The new list of "to dos" that I've taken on. The restlessness comes on when I'm doing something I used to do. Sitting on the couch in the evening with a beer watching football. And while I totally get the whole idea of avoiding things that "trigger" you early on, I think I'm to the point where I am going to draw some lines and push through. Reclaim some parts of my life from the smoky mindset and I totally now see that involves pushing through the cravings and doing those things "smokeless" until it takes.