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G’day NOPE .....Not One Puff Ever.... (replace Ever with Min Hour Day as required!)

Will there be smoking on Friday? NOPE

Yes I am on Day 6 and like I am doing the Chantix, so if you ever need to compare notes. I am here. Are you having any nausea with the Chantix, I know I do if I don't eat enough or drink enough I am like please bring me more food, more drink.

Hang in there. You are doing great. Just keep redirecting those craving thoughts.

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Change your morning routine ...if you had a coffee and a puff....first thing ...change it .. Take a nice shower first ..drink fresh orange ...this is what I did and it helped ... Your doing great...

Congratulations @idontsmoke for putting down the vape. You got this. Just remember to breath, and to come here if you need encouragement. I come here even when I am bored so I can read and get knowledge. Also it lets me be here and I can encourage others as well.

Thank you jilar for fixing my ticker! And thanks everyone else for all the love! I had MONSTER cravings when I woke up but I'm staying committed. First thing in the morning is the hardest, and I knew this going in. Cravings are tough but I'm tougher. The weird thing is the Chantix took the cravings away and caused me to feel kind of disinterested in vaping. Now that I've quit the cravings have come back!

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Hello everyone, here to make my daily NOPE pledge for the day

Morning !!!!....All you fabulous NOPER,S......

I second what reciprocity said. Great job quitting nicotine, idontsmoke! Stay the course through the first week. It gets easier after that. For me, day six was the humdinger. Welcome!!

Vape ditched, ticker's in place .... it IS getting real! Quitting is a roller coaster. One day up, one day down. The up days become more than the down days in short order so just endure those down days. Those tough days won't kill you but going back to smoking will!

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Today has been sooooo much better than the last couple days, thanks to everyone who came to my aid on the SOS board. I ditched my vape into the garbage and got some sugar free candy and mints. Its getting real....

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G’day NOPE .....Not One Puff Ever.... (replace Ever with Min Hour Day as required!)

Did you take the chantix as recommended @idontsmoke? I believe it's three month. It worked really good for me and I quit for three weeks on it and thought I could stop taking it. Wrong! I pretty instantly went back to smoking.

Getting ready for day 2 back in the work force. Yesterday went well, met a couple mild triggers and urges head and I beat them. The real test at work will be when we're busy.

Good for you!!!!! One day at a time..........

Good decision to ditch the vape @idontsmoke. I put your ticker in your signature. You almost had it, you just needed to scroll down lower and you would have seen the signature box. You had put it in your about me. Anyway now ya know

Great job on tossing out the vapes @idontsmoke That ticker is a bit tricky. I think the info is here https://www.quittrain.com/tickers/ If the info on that link doesn't help, I'm sure someone more knowledgeable about tickers will chime in soon.

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Good luck with everything Boo, and thank you for letting us know. I look forward to reading your birth announcement - congrats on your baby girl! Stay safe and see you soon

I'm chugging coffee and waiting for my kid to wake up. This is the first time in a while where he's slept in after 7. No complaints here.

Thanks, everyone, for your thoughtful replies and resources. Man, how I wish I never got hooked on nicotine. I will persevere! I'm betting that my brain will get back to normal in time. Not the addiction keyhole. That may always be there. It's a feeling. How I felt before getting hooked on nicotine. I want that feeling back. Gonna get it back! Gotta strive for it! I believe in hope. I shall persevere!

Watching Spider -Man for the first time ever and it's pretty good. I didn't know that both Spider-Man and Superman worked at Newspapers

Day 2 done at the restaurant and I think we are a little ahead of schedule. We need to finish the cleaning and sterilization then configure all the tables so that we meet the social distancing protocols. The we will prepping all the food items for the menu so we can open next Thursday. Back at it again tomorrow at 8am.

Thanks Doreen! Great advice...its good to know I'm on the right track because usually I go downstairs, use the Keurig to make my coffee then take it out on the porch to vape. A few weeks ago I started making coffee in my room with a regular pot first and didnt go down to vape for at least an hour. So now that I'm not vaping at all, but broke my old routine (downstairs + keurig then vape) it has been ok once I'm all the way awake....its those moments right after i wake up before I open my eyes that are the hardest when my brain tries as hard as it can to kill me LOL. It will stop....it always does...Thank you again for all your support! Chantix has been a lifesaver for me. I haven't had any side effects at all....been on it for a month. The only weirdness I've noticed is that the reason I quit when I did was because the Chantix was working: I didn't have physical cravings, and even the mental cravings had eased. Now that I've actually quit I'm having cravings LOL. how has it been for you? How long have you been on it, and what side effects have you had if any?

Watching Beachfront Bargain Hunt and every single house the couple goes into the wife wants to move the couch!

Welcome back Idontsmoke. I remember you a while back. Never be ashamed to return and try again. You can do this. Stay close and call out when you need us.

Day one- I make a video of myself giving myself a pep-talk/lecture. My Pre-SOS if you will and in the middle of it I am about to light one up and I am in the middle of telling myself that we are in control. We get to decide if you smoke or not. That our addiction is not in control of me. I stop mid sentence to go light that cigarette up and I look at it break it in half and throw it in the ash tray and dump water in on top for good measure. I then finish my video and didn't smoke for the rest of the day. No issues yeah I had urges and craves nothing to bad. Would tell myself Nah we don't do that anymore and move on. Then I get woke up in the middle of the night. My 17 year old daughter had sneaked out of the house. Whats worse is my 22 year old son who just had a baby and is now living with us. allowed her to sneak out and then woke me up to tattle on her. So here I am at 2 am driving around looking for my daughter cigarette in hand. Then after that was all done with I went home and went to bed. Day One Re-do- Woke up and smoked a cigarette first thing like it was nothing. At 11:10 am I went to light up a cigarette and it made me feel so nauseous that I just couldn't do it. So I decided then and there that I was not going to smoke no more. So The rest of the day went fairly easy as it did the day before. Came here and posted a post about quitting. Carried on about my day getting through each and every urge and crave with a big deep breath and an exhale of We don't do that anymore. Went to bed feeling better about myself even though I was exhausted. Day Two- I wake up to a crave went to reach for my cigarettes (which my room was the only room I smoked in. I allowed myself my goodnight cigarette and my good morning cigarette. anyway I reached for my cigarettes and realize that there wasn't a pack there. I lean up on an elbow and sleepily look. Thinking I must of knocked them down at some point. Then as my brain is clearing as I am looking for my cigarettes. I realize I can't find them because I no longer smoke. So I get up I go to the bathroom, wash my face, brush my teeth. and then go make a pot of coffee. I then proceed to make breakfast so I can take my Chantix and to get my day started off right. All the while, I am chanting we no longer smoke. I will Never Take Another Puff again. I am pushing through the craves and urges fairly easy nothing to bad. I have made it through day one and am officially working my way through day 2. My quit smoking app now says 2 days. cool. I know it is correct because I downloaded and set up the app the day before to help me keep tabs on my quit, but I did this as I made the decision for the second day in a row to help me stay accountable for my quit. So here we are my app says 2 days smoke free and I decide it is time to let the kids in on my decision to quit smoking(they knew it was coming because I have been on the Chantix a week and I told them that was part of the plan prior to this.) My daughter decides she not only wants to get an attitude, but she is wanting to push so many buttons. I look around and see my husband standing there not saying a word. I see my son sitting beside her and his wife beside him and nobody is stepping up to get my back. I had just told everyone that I was quitting smoking and that I was officially on Day Two of not smoking and that I was going to be irritable and maybe a little short tempered and here is my daughter spewing out the mouth and not one person steps up to have my back. I go into a instant meltdown. I am talking full body crave, Full mental crave, Buttons pushed, anger is pulsing, hurt is flowing all the while I am screaming like a banshee about having my back, tears streaming down my face, My family is following me. Because quite honestly I looked like a hilarious lunatic raving about something crazy. Stomping out of the house. OUT of the yard. Down the road. I look back upset. My husband is standing there chuckling to himself, because I looked quite funny throwing my shirt on the ground(had my workout sports-bra on underneath) my fuzzy over-sized pajama pants on and barefoot. I am screaming I am done. I have Y'alls back all the time and you can't never have my back. I was yelling I'm done. Keep the house, keep the car, just a true and total melt-down. So after I very painfully step on a rock. I stop look down and realize that I look like a complete and utter fool. which in turn makes me laugh and cry harder all at the same time. I then turn around insistent I am getting my shirt and my flip flops and I am still leaving. as I am walking back I am taking deep breaths. Once I got back in the yard my husband looks at me and opens his arms. I collapse in his arms and just cry. He then carries me to bed all the while I am still complaining about him not having my back. He gets me tucked into bed and hands me my laptop after turning it on and pulling my favorites up and coming here. He hands it to me and says post help others talk to others and I will finish breakfast. So I did. After that I kept close to the train and stayed in bed for most of the day. Went to bed a winner. Day Three- Woke up easy, remembered right off the bat that I was no longer smoking, so I didn't have that where are my cigarettes feeling I had on day 2. I got up and made myself breakfast and basically had an easy care free day. The day was pretty easy going nothing major stood out, Day Four- Woke up no major craves. My sense of smell is coming back. Everything smells stronger, more vibrant, more pungent. Other than that all I basically did was clean. So that way I can get my house where I can handle it. didn't realize how nose blind I was. Or should I say how smoking killed my sense of smell. Man did it ever. Cravings lets just say this, I have noticed them, but they aren't physical feeling, these ones are mental. I can feel them physically, but they start out as mental, but they are definitely there, and definitely noticeable. I am pushing through, I came to the board and pledged NOPE today. Made it through the day as a winner. Day 5 Now that we are caught up on my quit. We can start the first post of my blog. Let me tell you, about this dream. Now this dream was so vivid, so real feeling, that I woke up b****ing(don't know if cursing is allowed or not so keeping it as pg as I can) my husband out... I mean I was laying into him. I dreamed that he was mad at me because none of his pants fit him. They were either to small, to big, skinny jeans, bell bottoms(doesn't even own a pair of bell bottoms, or skinny jeans) no matter what pair of jeans I washed there was something wrong with them. In my dream this had gone on for like a month. I then dreamed that we had gotten into the car and just out of habit I reached over grab a cigarette and lit the damn thing. I instantly knew I messed up and threw it out the window. I must of woken up then because I don't remember anything else about the dream. So as I am laying there waking up I realize I am have a full on waking crave at this moment. I am irritable as hell, and mad as hell at my husband. WHO I then proceed to wake up with "Baby wake up. I was laying here thinking which I had not been. You need to go through your pants. I am tired of listening to you b***h at me for not washing the pants that fit you. How the hell am I suppose to know which pants fit you this week. SO you have three choices. Go through your pants throw away the pants that don't fit you, forcing you to have to buy pants that fit you. 2) stop B****ing at me because I washed the wrong ones or 3) lose some f***ing weight. Those are your options. and Oh by the way also in my dream you had me so upset that I forgot that I was quitting and I dreamt that I had an oops in my dream. I then realized I woke my husband up B****ing him out for a dream. I also realized that my dreamt oops also what caused my waking crave. SO I have to apologize to my husband and do something to make it up to him. I don't know make him some nice meal or something. So here we are into day 5 I talked to my doctors office. WE had decided that once I hit my second Chantix if I was handling it okay, which I am. I get nauseous, but I know the triggers of my nausea and how to manage it. So we decided to also do the Burpropion also with the Chantix, to give the Chantix a boost, but to also have the other medication in my system for when it is time to stop the Chantix. because when I talked to her about doing the Chantix to quit smoking I told her the truth. That I have had success in quitting with the Chantix, but have not had success in keeping a quit coming off Chantix. So we decided to go the extra measure and also do the Burpropion(Wellbutrin, Zyban). I just know that I am done. I am just done... Well, until bedtime, Until I blog tonight and am ready to go to bed a winner.

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G’day good on ya.....nana20. remember to take it by the minute hour day. Those minutes and hours and days get pretty priceless when we realise we have to hand the lot back on that firstbpuff

So after having some really bad dreams about not being able to find my husband pants. After dreaming about an oops. I have now woke up to the realization that it was all a bad dream and a real to life hard craving. So I came straight here to post and to pledge. So here I am pledging to NOPE!!!!