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I commit to not smoke for the next 24 hours.

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

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Approaching a full 24 hours soon. This is my first morning not smoking with my morning coffee. Wow! i don’t want to ever wish my life away but I can’t wait to get over the next few weeks

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Here I was ,this tiny skinny,scruffy kid..brought up in Liverpool... I started to hang around the back streets with the older kids..they stood in a circle passing around the smokes they had managed to get their hands on somehow..this is where I had my first puff..this is also where I should have never had another..but I was one of ..the gang.. It didn't take long for to get hooked..both my parents smoked ,so they was always I supply.. Little did I know then I would smoke for another 52 years..smoking while I was pregnant twice,smoking around my children all the time they grew up.. It was my pleasure,my reward..I worked hard..I earned that ciggie break..never being told of the danger..and the consequences.... I tried to quit hundreds of times..never quitting for long...I have later learned the tobacco companies kept adding more stuff to keep me hooked... My smoking career came to a abrupt end..when I had to make a choice... Face amputation of both feet..or quit... Thankfully I found the strength to finally put them down... I wonder...if those big kids are still with us.. Or did smoking do its worse...

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

No way!! You have a week! He's young, teach him a new name.. you move, change your identity, dye your hair...dye his hair?? ....BOom! New life, new dog! Give him good scritches for us...he's Soo fluffy cute!!

I did it - 24 hours down - a lifetime to go. Happy I don't stink anymore!

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Thanks Millar❤ Sorry Jillar darn auto correct

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Good for you Christine! If you can do one day, you can do two. If you can do two days, you can do four, and on and on. Before you know it, you'll be counting the months!

I grew up in a smoking family too and I remember as a kid having our dad buy us corn cob pipes and filling them with one of his Pall Mall cigs. Then we'd light them and puff away and we just thought it was so fun and funny. Fast forward a few years, still a kid though, and sneaking a cigarette from the folks to smoke with the neighbor kids I don't think any of us inhaled but we sure were grownups looking cool. It wasn't until we moved to California that my addiction was born. My sister and I started by smoking my dad's cig butts, because they didn't have filters, from the ashtrays From there we graduated to combining our high school lunch money to buy a pack and you better believe we both made sure we each got our ten. I still didn't inhale, I couldn't figure out how to. My sister would give me the clues over and over again until one day in the girls bathroom at S. M. High school I inhaled. I was so proud of myself and so was my sister....

Oh boy, do I know that wish to jump forward in time. Congratulations!

We got this Christine on im my second day with coffee and no smokes. Good job girl, keep up the good job and remember NOPE

Part of a straw with a piece of a cotton ball in the end of it have gotten me through many a craving. Deep breathing has also helped me. Sometimes all I need to do is just get up and move to a different place in my house. It's odd, but almost anything that that causes my mind to change directions will get me through that craving.

I remember the night I became a full-fledged smoker. Not counting the odd one here or there I could get my hands on in my younger days. It was a stupid beginning to a stupid addiction. I was doing some underage drinking with friends when one of my cohorts told me: "hey man, if you smoke while you drink it will make you buzz harder." We were quite the brain trust. Long story short, I smoked several cigarettes that night and came to the next morning wanting more. Addiction is born. It's easy to shake my head at the youthful stupidity involved in my decision to start smoking. It's a little harder to come to terms with the fact that I allowed myself to stay trapped for the next 25 years.

Well I made it through day 2. It has not been an easy day but I did it. Thank you all for the support I really need it.

Keep that marvelous quit going. You can do this Linda!

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This is so true! It seems so hard in the beginning and then one day you're at your first year quit and looking back on your terrible year and thinking hmmm, that wasn't so hard after all

I just saw a headline about the ozone layer. I hadn't thought about the ozone layer in a long time. There was a great deal of consternation about the ozone layer back in the late-eighties and early-nineties, then it just drifted out of the news. Back in the day, they said chlorofluorocarbons from hairspray cans were a leading culprit in the hole in the ozone layer. So I blamed the band Whitesnake, but now it's 2020 and we need to find a new scapegoat.

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I was raised in a very strict family, never going against the grain and having little worldy experience. I graduated from high school on a Friday and started my first job the next monday, in the big city. The minute I stepped off the city bus, you could see the niavety oozing from me. I felt so adult and excited about navigating this new world. When I would take my lunch break, I would look around and wonder what it would take to be accepted into this new world. I don't know why seeing people smoke was so alluring to me. To this day, I remember buying that first pack and choking through the first cigarette. Of course it became and addiction and led me to a man that smoked. He quit early in our marriage, but never hassled me to quit. I continued to smoke for 42 years. If I hadn't have stumbled across this forum, I would probably still be smoking. Don't ever feel that it is too late or you can't do it. Freedom is wonderful!

Congrats Christine on your first day done. Carry this pride over to tomorrow, and keep promising yourself to stay smoke free, and remember to have regular little rewards, these help with motivation. you CAN do this. All the best.

Way to go ....your a fabulous non smoker ....smash tomorrow too !!!

Great job Christine, now to day two

Way to go Christine, Keep up the positive attitude. The first couple of weeks can be tough but nothing you can't get through. Take the daily Nope pledge. This means that you pledge to " not take one puff" for the entire day. Take it one hour, one day at a time. You have it in you to beat this addiction.

24 hours is awesome. Take time to celebrate it. Yes, the first week is tough but hang close to the forum, play some games and get to know us. We have all been where you are and we want to help you along this journey.. You do not have to wish your life away. Start living your life free of the ball and chain that smoking has been. Start saving the money gained by quitting. The more you look back and concentrate on that smoke you are not having, the harder it will be.

Don't be afraid. You will be able to use the first two weeks as motivation to stay quit. Lean on the forum when you need strength.

Unfortunately, there are new generations of Those Big Kids. Big tobacco, still pushing nicotine to children and poisoning children harvesting tobacco in Indonesia and elsewhere. A horrifyingly large part of the world is still under Big Tobacco's thumb. Here in this world, those same companies push Nicotine in a bright shiny new package. Billowing clouds of addiction in candy flavors. Vaping. Children LOVE it ! I hope the day comes soon, when it will be hip for kids to be clean and healthy and free from addictions, free from this madness. Thank you for your strength, Doreen... you saved your feet, Your Life ! You help all of us with kindness, concern that shows in your posts, and with the smoke free trail that you blaze. Lead on, Fearless Smoke Free Woman !

I’m so very happy for you! Day 2 will turn into day 3. Baby steps. Just keep going...

Welcome Christine! Great job taking back your freedom! The Joel Spitzer videos are great to watxh. Very informative and kinda like having a counselor in the box. Play the games, read and read some more, post an SOS if you are thinking of smoking, and hold tight to that quit!