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Congratulations guys!! Keep growing and learning...keep finding that strength inside yourself : Keeps these thoughts in your battle bag...this is how you win the war. We're all really proud of you guys. We love seeing people beat this terrible addiction. Keep fighting the good fight, guys! We've got your backs!

Did not sleep well last night, maybe about four hours. Not sure if it has anything to do with quitting smoking or not? well here's my second day of not smoking, we'll see how it goes. I usually break by day 3 if i even make past tis day. if the cravings get bad, one of my strategies is to come here and read some of the success stories and any literature on nicotine addiction/withdrawals. been reading allen carr's "easy way to stop smoking," the book gives me some confidence. after i finish it, i would like to find a couple more books on addiction. if anyone has any recommendations for any good books on addiction that helped them out,let me know. off to work.

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100 days smokeand nicotine free today. Happy day. Slightly scared I may have COPD. No symptoms other than I'm sure if I had to blow into a device to measure lung capacity the results would be dismal. But you know, hey ho, better to be free at any cost. Only smoked for 20 years but very heavily. Not sure if I want to see a doctor! Congrats to all other newbies by the way

Thank you Doreensfree and C9Jane, If it wasn’t for all of you and this board I would never have had the confidence to quit! To all the newbies: Hang in there! We can do this!

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@johnny5If you're going to drink beer until there's a winner declared then you might end up like this!

I can totally relate to the 3 day thing Jswiss. That was my breakdown day too. The thing that finally got me over the hump was the realization that I was going to have to keep going through those 3 days of hell over and over and over unless I decided to keep going one more day. Eventually the days turned into weeks, at which point your quit becomes too valuable to just throw away. Keep your great quit going. You're worth it.

Congratulations on Day 2 JSwiss. I echo everything @Johnny5 said. I read Carr’s book and was active on the forum. Stay busy- hangout here, read old posts, play games- POST S.O.S if you’re about to smoke. All of these helped my quit- 3 years ago! Lots of support here. Take advantage of it!! NOPE!!

Congratulations on making it to day 2 smoke free, @Jswiss and welcome to QuitTrain. Insomnia can be common in the early days of your quit so this sounds normal. Reading about the experiences of quitters here is a great way to keep your quit strong. I am also a big fan of Allen Carr's book and I am glad you are reading it. Joel Spitzer makes videos that address quitting as well and a lot of his videos are on this site. Your early days can be tough but learning more about nicotine addiction (which you are doing) and reaching out for help on a support forum like this is what really helped me in my early days of my quit. Your are doing a great thing in quitting smoking and it is great to have you here.

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Congrats on the new cell phone! On mine, the floppy goes somewhere in the base of the phone. Enjoy!

Sorry I don't want to be negative, I'm soooooo happy to be free and want to keep it going. Everyone who has quit from 1 second to 100 years ago celebrate your strength! I genuinely believe deciding to quit is the difficult bit

Feeling slightly more high-tech than I was this morning. I finally broke down and got a new cellphone this afternoon. Didn't really have an option. I needed to download an app for work and my phone was too old. It said something about "iOS is not supported" or some such thing...I don't know, I don't speak robot. Now, if I can figure out where to insert the floppy disk in this thing I'll be making good time down the old information superhighway.

"well here I am again just a little worse for the wear" You couldn't be more wrong Opah. Based upon your last quit date, you've been smoking for over a year since you relapsed. That means that you have twice the risk of coronary heart disease than if you had quit one year ago. Each time you write off a relapse with' "I'll just try again sometime soon" you do more irreparable damage to your health. One day, there will not be another chance. Time to make this quit count. Best wishes for success this time around.

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I am right there with you johnny5, desperately trying to ignor the election. I wish I liked beer . Couldn't wait for this day to get here and so nervous for it to be over!

Hey Jswiss pick up some sugar free hard candies, butterscotch and Ricola lemon mint throat drops worked great for me get a craving and suck a drop or butterscotch it really helps me

Welcome aboard the Quit Train jswiss! Yes, the sleep disorder you experienced is like a direct result of your quitting. Just one of the temporary quit symptoms we all go through when we quit. Power on and put these tough days behind you. That's the only path to freedom. There's a whole video library available to you here on a separate page. Lots of quit subjects covered there by Joel Spitzer. Lots of success stories here and also important is the support you'll get here. No one knows quitting like a fellow quitter!

Browsing QuitTrain's "Post a Song you Like" thread and drinking a few beers while both trying to follow and also trying to ignore tonight's US Presidential Election returns. Regardless of who wins, hopefully better days are ahead.

Thanks I will book an appointment. Thanks for all the inspiration guys

That's a serious enough symptom to warrant a visit to your dr. A lot of times it's just your lungs hard at work cleaning up the damage that's causing the shortness of breath but if not then the sooner you catch the COPD the better at keeping it in check. Plus it's just a good idea to have a checkup after quitting if for nothing more then the ego boost you get from everyone there congratulating you for quitting Congratulations on 100 days!

This was my entire first half of my quit! I redirected my smoking thoughts with chocolate Congratulations on trying again, Opah! You know the drill...stop putting the dang things in your mouth and lightning them on fire!

Way to go, Layla! Two months down and it gets easier every day from here on out! Aren't you glad you stuck it through...soon the hard parts will be a fading memory. Keep up the great work...your lungs love you now!!

First full day of work done, had some triggers but sadly I ate my way thru them, knew that could happen so I did bring some comfort food in my lunch. need to beef up my vitamins, I could very easily sleep the first couple weeks away and I just might do just that if my energy drags down to badly..

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Ah now that'll be a whole new poll, how do you wipe your arse...for this one we wanna know, when you daintily dab, does one do so with the paper daintily folded, or scrunched into an uncouth ball of chaos.

Hey Everyone, I’m doing pretty good...today is my last day on the patch...I do get urges to smoke once in a while, but I don’t give in to them. I hope everyone is doing well!

Good days and bad days. I also had some surgery earlier last month, but slowly recovering. There is no way smoking will make anything different or better. I want to keep my quit.

Welcome Tjump! Wow, anyone that can jump out of a plane can certainly quit smoking. I was your age when I quit. Never thought I could, until I found this forum. They helped me realize I had the strength within me. Hang around and get to know us. I have a feelling you are a very interesting fellow. Here, you can educate yourself, play some games and get to know the wonderful people here.

Hey guys, screwed my head back on again and got it right, yes it has been back and forth, smoking for a weekend and then not for a month or two. But as we all know it came more and more often until there I was a cigar in hand most the time this time it has been a couple of months smoking pretty consistently. It started to not taste good, I started not feeling good after and finally I was throwing away 2 dollars of a 4 dollar cigar. so the Honeymoon and charm were gone. well today makes it day 4, and I have a full head of steam propelling me forward, I have my sugar free hard candies at hand for the triggers and a great mind set. So if you all still have a little room for Me I could use you help and encouragement, I really enjoyed my truck not smelling, being able to drive with the AC on and the windows up and the way I felt, I wasn't huffing and puffing when out chasing the Game around, my grandson and I are spending a bunch more time together and I really didn't like smoking around him. especially while we were having such great times, you see I didn't want him to associate these good / great times with smoking or the smell of my cigars, most people liked the aroma of them, kinda like a pipe. so I really wanted to impress on him that they were not good for me, him anyone and to do that I had to prove it to him. Now understand I am doing this for myself and I want to be the example, I want to spend many years with my family and grand children. Guess that is enough for the now, looking forward to hearing from you all.

Out of Quarantine today - Yay!! Still haven't left the house though. I think my world vision boundaries have shrunk to the inside of the house I'm in. Also, it's below freezing outside so that's an issue too!

Welcome back Opah...... Your seat has always been here ...waiting for you ..... I'm sure your Grandson will be so proud of his Grandpa..... Stay close here ....post,post,post ....we will help you to Freedom.... Most of us eat more at the beginning ....so don't worry about that ... Let's get you free from Nicotine forever ..

Why is there always corn in ya spew even if you ain't had any for ages?

Welcome back opah, I'm glad to hear that you have a great start to your quit already. It's sounds like you are finally ready for your forever quit. Stick close and keep the faith.

For those of you that live where you have a winter. Don`t know if he could have wrote this in Tennessee. Love his music.

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Hi everyone! I'm doing OK and hope everyone else is as well. I have been feeling down about this virus. It's so hard to have a life these days. I went away for the weekend to try to cheer myself up. I think it worked as I'm feeling much better now.

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I'm doing great. Triggers are few and far between these days, I also find them very negligible. I love my new Freedom so I'm confident that I will never give in to this nasty addiction ever again. Thanks for following up with us newbies, encouragement and support go a long way. Sorry to hear Linda, hope you're feeling better. Hang in there, it will get better, I promise.

I have had a rough few days. Spent yesterday in. ER. BP and heart rate way up. I do have A-Fib, but that was not the problem. Not sure what wad. I have to admit when I left the hospital I wanted to say screw it stop and get some ciggs. But I didn't. Really struggling today. Pretty overwhelmed with things. Thanks for asking.