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Ive found that not smoking helps you quit.

G’day NOPE..... Not One Puff Ever... you can replace Ever with min, hour, day as required

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Same here - peripheral vascular disease that affected my right leg. For any lurkers reading this thread, it is getting better week by week since I quit.

Totally agree with this! And: give yourself time to go through all stages. Have self compassion and patience, reward yourself for every important milestone, even when it seems childish. Celebrate each moment of pride, of fresh breath, each and every moment that you experience how you do well for yourself. I exploited these moments like crazy and it made me much stronger. Dont lose connection with why you want to quit in the first place. Make endless lists, make quitting your absolute priority no 1 and then grow tired of your effort (for me, that was a huge part of being able to release myself from everything that kept me clinging to junkie thinking). You will also be able to quit

NOPE...and for any smokers out there lurking who are thinking tonight's the night...go for it mates, make the call and end your addiction this year....one day to go cobssies so take the plunge, you won't regret it.

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How lovely, and how lucky you are to see creatures like this up close in your garden. Australia has beautiful wildlife. When I was there, I was in awe at the water dragons in the garden of my husband's Aunts house, who lives in Coffs Harbour. I loved seeing the kangaroos lolling about on the golf course, and the koalas free in the trees. The yellow crested cockatoos were cheeky, stealing cake of us haha. You people from Oz are soooo lucky.

Love this...was reading the first post and going please don't be a snake, please don't be a snake.... My dad has bluies in his yard...has one who lives on the opposite side of the path to the strawberry patch...whrn they're in season, every bloody morning when dad's out having his cuppa he watches the bluey walk across the path, into the strawberry patch and then walk back with one in his mouth....Dad figures it's a small fee for no snails and bugs. Snail pallets are banned at me dad's too.

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Be prepared to do the work. And educate yourself about nicotine addiction so you will know what to expect when you put that last cigarette out. When I quit on Jan 1 2019, I was told by many of my friends that I would be better off to pick another date. Lots of people quit on New Year's Day, they told me, but they go back to smoking when they realize how hard quitting can be. My case was different, though. I wasn't new to quitting. I had quit before, for long periods of time. I knew exactly what to expect. And I was prepared. I wasn't picking New Year's Day as some kind of last-minute New Year's resolution. I was picking that day because I decided that I wanted 2018 to be the last year I ever smoked! I wanted to start the new year fresh and smoke free. Has it been an easy ride? At times, yes. At other times, not at all. The first two weeks take a lot out of you. I was prepared for that. I gave myself plenty of time to rest. I asked my friends and family to be extra patient with me while my moods were all over the place. I had lots of Twizzlers on hand to chew on when the cravings struck. I had my tool kit ready to go. But the biggest thing I did to prepare was to tell myself that smoking would no longer be an option for me. I decided to get off the serial quitting cycle for good. I took smoking off the table and told myself I would do whatever I had to do not to smoke. Because, you see, quitting is very easy in one major respect: The only thing you really have to do to quit smoking is to not smoke. Don't light up. Don't take that first puff. That's it. That's the secret to quitting. Just don't smoke. And here I am, almost a year later, still smoke free! I'm so glad I didn't listen to my friends who told me not to quit on New Year's Day. I'm so glad I declared that 2019 would be a smoke free year for me. I have never regretted that decision. Not once. I would love to support any quitters who have decided to make 2020 a smoke free year. I am here! I'll be a shoulder to cry on. A listening ear to vent to. Whatever you need. I'll be here!

1) Learn the actual stats behind smoking related illnesses and what actually happens to you... this was a huge eye opener for me. Illnesses were way worse than what I initially thought and the road to recovery was a lot longer than I thought. 2) Join a quitters community like this one... I can't really articulate it but something about quitting with the support of other quitters makes a huge difference.

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I didn't see a Bluey..... I did see a colony of flying bats go over the balcony ,every night at exactly 9 .30 pm...amazing sight ....

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Happy, Healthy New Year MMXX wishes. With a spanking new decade before us, I hope more people will decide they have had enough of Nicotine addiction and choose Freedom. I also hope that all quitters will build on their resolve to live nicotine free. If you are contemplating a quit, the resources below, the informative threads on the site and the gracious support from the QTrain community can help you build a forever quit. I'd like to start out with the short film of Nuggets, a profound and poignant film about addiction. and follow with our friend, Joel Spitzer's, Can You Spare An Hour And A Half To Help Save Your Life Joel's Daily Quitting Lesson Guide A few QTrain threads; 10 Ways To Effectively Use This Forum How Nicotine Works and tips and tricks that got us through the first days First Week, Nicotine Free Happy New Year MMXX, QTrain ! Toast and Drink Deep from The Bottomless Cup of NOPE (Not One Puff Ever) S

Congratulations @Elaine C on one year quit today!!! I hope you're planning something special for this HUGE milestone

G’day Have chickens and keep them locked in their pen till mid morning otherwise the crows take the eggs. Noted a few broken eggshells still and was thinking that the girls might be eating their own eggs. Till this morning. Heard one of the girls boasting the way chooks do when they lay. Went straight in the pen and found the culprit in the act of eating a fresh layed egg. Bloody bluey..... a big fat blue tongue lizard. I’ve looked on them as a friend in my garden. They love snails and insects and keep them in control. I’ve encouraged them and have pieces of down pipe in the gardens so they have a place to hide. Well this particular one has a new home in a friends garden up the road. He is pleased to have it and has already put some pipe in the garden to make it welcome. Ive got others in the garden and as long as they keep away from the eggs we are good. includes a pic of a bluey. Not the culprit didn’t think to take a pic. Chris

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We saw loads of bats when we were up in Cairns. We wondered what they were at first. Each evening the sky would be filled with them, and then you would see them all hanging in the trees . An amazing sight.

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I smoked for 20 years and made multiple attempts to quit during those last few years. What finally worked for me was finding a support site like this one, reading up and educating myself on nicotine addiction, and reaching out for help when I was struggling. I would also suggest finding Allen Carr's book "The Easy Way To Quit Smoking." There are online versions and paperback versions of this book available. People have mixed reactions to this book but go into it with an open mind. His book didn't necessarily make quitting easy for me but it did make me realize that smoking did nothing positive for me. Everything smoking did was negative. The turning point for me was realizing that I wasn't missing out on anything positive by quitting smoking. There is nothing positive about smoking. It is all negative. Whatever struggles you may have early on are definitely worth it as life without cigarettes is awesome. It may take you a while to realize that but once you do, quitting becomes a lot easier. Just focus on the positive benefits of quitting instead of focusing on the early negatives. Smoking sucks and life as a non-smoker is so much better.

Why isn't anyone talking about the diseases this smoking will cause ? This is a big reason i quit

Perusing the Non-Smoking Pet threads always helped. It doesn't take a lot to distract me ... Oh look a bunny!!

G’day My house is a “Queenslander” so it’s a house built on stilts to catch the breezes. Of course everyone fills the underside in. The laundry a fill in. Only had louvre windows when I moved in and the slab floor has a big fall directed to the door cause it’s got no floor drain. The gape under the doors about an inch but it’s enough for a lizard looking for a cool dark spots to spend the day till the evening till it can hunt smaller animals, insects and snails. Great on snails .....no snail bait is allowed at my place. Hope everyone’s likes posts like these, I live in a pretty interesting place in the world. Chris

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That thing looks pretty big to slip under the door. I would definitely be unnerved with that in the laundry. My son would have probably brought them in as pets! I get such an education on this site!

G’day We had one that used to slip under the door in the laundry and hide under the pile of dirty cloths waiting to be washed. My wife would have a fit when she picked up the cloths to put them in the machine. They hiss as they show you the blue tongue, scares even me when your not expecting it. That one got moved to the side of the neighbours house. Seen it or perhaps one of the children sunning itself on the same path just reciently. With a 15 year old blind dog and no cat they are safe in my yard. There main danger is from birds like crows and Kookaburra catching them sunbaking. Chris

He is kind of cute and actually has a blue tongue! Those things moving around my garden would spook me. I am happy with my toads!

Wow, that's a big lizard! We have blue bellied lizards here but they're much too small to eat eggs

Beautiful ! Won't he know the way back to delicious eggs ? I looked them up Blotched Blue-tongue Lizard They call them "Cadillac of The Reptile Kingdom"