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

Quit: 5 years and 20 days ago. Something positive today: Playing with my daughter. Games of peek-a-boo and playing airplane are my idea of fun now.

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2 months and 20 days 22 hours Making a pie for dinner

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Since you want to hear from the pretty people too: 1. Quit for four years 10 months 2. Gonna keep getting rid of stuff I don't need anymore (husband included)

This Window Licker In a blink of a eye ...Has 7 yrs 7 months.... It's our first day of easing Lockdown ....I went for a long walk in the park with my side kick Louis ...

Two years and six months. Smoking consumed too many years of my life. I now celebrate everyday by breathing that clean fresh air. As soon as this darn pandemic is over, I plan on enjoying every bit of my freedom.

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I like to see Everyone post to this. Newbies, Old farts, Pretty People and the Ugly ones too. If your new- post everyday just for making it another.... 1.length of quit 2. Something positive your going to do for yourself today And here's why.... 100k posts of people just saying hi with a number, a SOS with a plan and all who responded last week, supporting a fellow member, Because you quit- dont matter how long- you quit, Nobody else in real world is really paying attention that you earned something today for being you and quitting. SO I will go first.... 1. Bunch of years 2. Piece of cake after dinner and 10 minutes of listening to a couple songs (American Pie just came on) will be my reward for 3/29/21

Hello All, I am very happy to inform you all that I am smoke free for the past 5 yrs, 10 months and 15 days..and still continuing as a non smoker... Regards, Raja

A couple years or so. Got a new hat!

7 years 8 months. Thanks for the remider, I ordered a new sweatshirt!!

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G’evening JH63- Hefty thread- welcome! Nice ppl here to support your quit from tobacco.

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1. 4 years 6 months 2. Listen to music and look forward to another day and walk in the morning. Thankful for each day whatever it brings.

My quit is currently 11 months and 24 days. Today I am cleaning and putting new grips on my golf clubs. Getting ready for a new golf season.

Congrats on the great quit rajag! Thanks for checking in, hope you're well

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4 years, 1 month and 19 days ago was when I got slammed by the Universe and stopped w the poison sticks! I bought a bunch of new plants and bulbs and started gardening some containers outside for Spring!

Glad your sister was able to get the medical attention she needed. You have set a great example for her by quitting smoking. Hopefully, she will follow your lead.

It's not what I'm doing but more of what I did.......... We had free shred weekends all month of March at a local bank celebrating their 20th anniversary and I managed to get rid of SEVEN 13gallon bags of paperwork! Now I have plenty of room in the boxes for the next seven years!

Thank you, QuitTrain and MQ! This is the best ride ever and I never want to get off!

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Awesome Job JH on keeping your quit. Looks like you have a good plan in place, and you came here to your support forum so right on and way to go! While quitting may be all-consuming right now, it will let up -- promise! If you have anything you can do to keep your thoughts off quitting, like learning a language or an instrument, or something else that truly consumes you, you should be able to feel some relief from that quit-smoking tension. I am 14 months in and hardly ever get an urge. Yesterday I had a 1 second blip, and it surprised me. Gone almost as soon as it came. Promise...it will ease up. You just have to hang in there longer than the addiction and all its tricks. Some sort of all-mind-consuming-activity should help. Great job keeping that quit! Woohoo!

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Never give up....Giving up !!!

Hey @Lilley and @Ray1198, where you guys at? Lets quit quitting your quits and just quit once and for all! We're ready to help get you guys there Lets do this!

Way - to - go..... Congratulations ....Reward yourself well !!

That's awesome @Rajag Congratulations on a great quit!

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What!?!? And today I decide to pop in and say Hello! Whoa. Divine intervention? Circumstance? That's a debate for another thread. What a wonderful day to celebrate this locomotive LIFESAVER! @jillar I think I missed your 5 year this month? @johnny5 you saved me - the SOS that will never be forgotten @BKP you slapped me into reality before my sticky quit @Christian99 good narratives @beazel games kept my hands busy @Rozuki your presence @Lin-quitting yours too @Bassman - duh @Doreensfree thank you! @notsmokinjo thank you! keeping it real @c9jane29 hey! @sgt.barney why not- @MLMR our life is our recovery! @Hope2Nope H2N - comforting @Cbdave G'day!! Your posts greeted me so many mornings and helped me make it a G'day without smokes! and so many other friends that fought to keep me on track with or without knowing - please don't be offended if I did not tag you - I'm old. I'm old and I'm having wine. I can't tag Mike Piano - no words from me are worthy compared to his.

Congratulations on 7 Years and Thank you MQ for keeping the train running. it has been the best ride of my life.

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@Boo You are correct! I should not have used the word fate. I used it as an excuse. I don't buy into that way of thinking about most things, so I shouldn't have used it here either. I'll try to think of a better word, or better way of saying it. Thanks!

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well it is back to the old grind stone, But it is Friday ! It is not crazy like yesterday and most of the bosses have left doe the day.. So for me it is just getting better and better Busy month I have in April the 6th thru the 8th Ill be doing my game warden gig and the 13th thru the 22 I'll be out wild boar hunting, wondering the hills and meadows of Parkfield ca. 10 days of Manly bliss and comradery, fresh air and waking to the gobbles of Jake turkeys flying down from there roost. I hope thr rest of you are having as good a morning as I, God knows we all can use better times, softer days and more than enough Love to go around. I have noticed since I decided to provide assistance where I can when ever I see the need And Karma or kismet or what ever you believe will return your kindness, so far I have seen a reduction a Aholes on the streets and in the markets, I also have learned to smile with my eyes with the mask thing still going on and the uncertainty of when or if it will stop I was not being effective with my smiling face and nod in passing. These small jestures, Thank yous and your welcomes do much for the atmosphere a smile 10 X 10 space can turn from dark and gray to light and smilely. so here is my bestest good morning smile for you all, please pass it on !

What everybody else said... Lots of good advice. I have 2 analogies that resonate with me. When you smoke, you become this person who is highly addicted to the nicotine and the other chemicals, so day by day you change in to a monster, a werewolf. When you know that nicotine can be as addictive as heroin and cocaine (damn you cigarette manufacturers), you start to understand. If you are a control freak like me, who chain smokes to get a constant hit of dopamine and smoking is EXPENSIVE, you start getting angry. Now you have to go through the whole process of "unmonstering" yourself. The other analogy: Sure you know the game of snakes and ladders, you move block for block but you can only go up or down. Every time you go down a snake, you start "losing" and your opponent (nicotine) gets ahead of you putting you even lower down on the board. No fun! There are natural ways to boost dopamine and in my humble opinion it is both vital and essential. Be good to yourself and take pleasure in the activities that bring you joy. And good rest at least 7 hours (solid) a night. For some of us one one is too many, and 1000 are never enough. You will need to be on guard till the day you die. Forgive yourself for all the stop starts, you are human, and it's never easy. If you are finding it all too much go and speak with a professional who can assist you with meds, supplements, or a "toolbox" to cope. And if you are feeling a little down that's totally understandable too. Wishing you the best of luck. p.s. a list below of natural dopamine boosters, and don't forget ORGASM is a huge one too

Never ever give up fighting for yourself.