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four year later, and still NOPE!

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

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Congratulations Leanna.... Your a Inspiration.....Spoil yourself Today !!!

Hi all! It has been a while since I visited this forum. However, the other day a family member asked me how long it was since I quitted and wow, I knew it had been already four years but I no longer remembered the exact date and forgot to celebrate. I guess this has two interpretations, either dementia is coming or the lack of struggle makes you forget.... In any case, for those who are quitting, or planning, or having a hard time, you can totally make it and then even forget about it. Of course I remember sometimes (especially when I smell someone's else smoke, but now it is only a nice feeling thinking how free I am that I no longer have to smoke. So go for it, you can totally make it, and this community will help, so keep discussing, and NOPEing everyday. All the best! g.

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Congratulations @Leanna, hope you're doing well

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

Thank you, Jillar. It was the least I could do when I believed QSMB was in grave peril!

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Big congrats on nine years, Leanna!!! You're leading the way for many of us.

Congratulations @Leanna!!! 9 years is !!!

Thanks for the encouragement and hope. Well done on fours years free. Enjoy your wonderful life!

So sad, thank you beautiful ladies for sharing your stories and paying it forward to be here to try and help others from this wicked addiction. You are very brave and deserve a thank you from all the people you have helped.❤❤

Congratulations Leanna! 9 years smoke free is awesome.

Don and Phil gave us some of the best harmonies ever. Unfortunately, we also lost Tom T. Hall last week. Hall did what was probably my grandfather's favorite song of all-time.

Glad to hear all went well, @Opah! Good for you. As a retired healthcare professional, I agree that everyone should be proactive about their health. Regular checkups are important. If anyone on this forum has not been vaccinated against Covid, please make it a priority. Our lungs are already compromised, as ex- smokers, so we especially need to be safe from respiratory diseases. I am so happy, Opah, that you do, indeed, seem to have a new lease on life.

@mightyboosh, Congratulations on 2 years.

Congratulations on two years @mightyboosh, that's awesome!

Congrats on an incredible quit. Reward yourself for an awesome accomplishment and partyyyy.

Congrats, @mightyboosh! Celebrate your milestone and KTQ!

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Nancy Quit Date: 07/07/2013 Posted December 30, 2015 · IP Doreen and I were talking, and realized our husbands are the same age, 66. That is about the only thing they have in common. I am going to tell you first about my husband, Dennis, and then Doreen will be along to tell you about Tony. Hopefully there are smokers who will read this who still have the opportunity to choose which husband and father they would like to be. Dennis is a never smoker. At 66, he still works 40 hours a week. He enjoys golf, and boating. He maintains our home and houseboat. As many of you know, this past year he and his 70 year old brother totally remodeled the upstairs of our home. They took the kitchen down to the studs and rebuilt (and Dennis was still working 40 hours each week). Dennis recently walked his oldest daughter down the aisle with pride. He loves life and has a wonderful laugh. He takes medicine to control blood pressure and cholesterol, but is in great health otherwise. Doreen will tell you about Tony, soon. Doreensfree Quit Date: 7 /8/2013 Posted December 30, 2015 · I carnt post pictures, but I'm sure Tony would not want you all to see how sick he looks... Tony has end stage emphysema... He smoked until he physically couldn't put a cigarette in his mouth and smoke it.. It takes all the strength and breath he has ..to just get out of bed in the morning...with my help... After a rest...he needs my help to wash...shave.. Chair lift gets him downstairs...gets settled in a chair..where he stays till we have a bedtime routine. Emergency ambulances ,and hospital is never too far away...lung infections are almost on going.. Doctors fight to keep pneumonia at bay... Because his blood doesn't retain oxygen...he needs a machine 16 hours a day.... Sleeping with the mask on and the machine going all night is only half of it... Tony relies on me for everything...as sooon as he tries to move ...he is breathless... I have watched him the last 14 years slowly get worse ,this is a very cruel illness. I have shortened this thread...I could write a book... Tony and I don't know just how bad this will get...we live our lives on a daily basis.. If you are out there reading this...wanting to quit...please do it now.. I thank Nancy ....brilliant idea.. Link to original post: https://www.quittrain.com/topic/6446-a-tale-of-two-husbandswhich-will-you-be/

Mental Balloons Posted by gonfishn21 on 16 January 2015 - 06:17 PM As I'm now chasing the tweenie label, and have been thinking a lot about the concerns I have had regading No Man's Land, its got me thinking again. As most of you know, that means I'm going to ramble. Although I am not one that needs a lot of kudos, it seems that it is a necessary part of this process for a while. We make it through day 1 HURRAH!!!!!!!!!! We make it through hell week HURRAY!!!! Heck week over, " I feel better" HURRAy!! Two weeks, wow, learning to get through the craves, HURRay! Three weeks, can be around my friends and family without committing a felony, HURray Four weeks, nerves under control, waistband a little tight, not bad, HUrray Five weeks, walking, eating right, digestion shut down, but not smoking, Hurray Six weeks, no craves, no moods, no smoking, digestion shut down, HUH? Seven to eight weeks, no one wants to know but you, how you are doing. By the way, my digestion is shut down! They really stopped wanting to hear weeks ago, you just kept talking about it. You can see it in their eyes when you walk up. They probably have a pool about how long it will take you to bring it up. Or even worse, the day your digestion works! Yeah, wow woot woot yippee, big deal. Hello No Man's Land' How am i going to keep going with this? I need to bring my own ballons to the party. I know my friends and family care, but they dont get it. Even as firm as I have been since day one, this is one of the hardest things I have ever done. I know it, thats all that matters. As i reach the little milestones ahead, I need to be the one who says HURRAY!!!!!. I need to be the one who acknowledges the accomplishments. Afterall, in the end, I made the decision to quit, I made it through hell week, heck week, and i am the one who may never digest food again. I need to remind myself everyday, how much I have accomplished, BEFORE I have a chance to get weak. In that way, I can stay ahead, be ready to face any challenge with a strong defense. Smoking is no longer an option for me. Smoking is just something I used to do. I control my actions, and smoking is a choice. I choose not to smoke, even if I never digest food again. I found a website the other day, that actually teaches you HOW TO SMOKE. I couldn't believe it. It takes you through lighting it, drawing on it, how it feels.......Holy Crap I was feeling it!!!!! Two flipping months into this, and I was feeling it, and then I knew. I had to make mental ballons and carry them with me at all times. Everyday is a celebration, everyday needs reminders, and everyday has its challenges. There is no one here, that can not do it. I'm not special. I'm just going to carry my own balloons. Just sayin, Gon

This post was written by a member of another forum by the name of jwg and brought over to preserve it. And although I never knew him his ability to write about his addiction and his approach to dying spoke to me. RIP jwg..... A lazy Texas river spanning form Kerr county Texas to the San Antonio bay on the Gulf of Mexico. If you ever need to find a place to relax enjoy the sunshine while refreshing from the hot Texas sun, nothing beats a lazy day tubing down the slow winding of deep greens and blue. Some place your arm able to reach down and feel the stones polished by the millenniums. Hiding secrets of the Alamo and days gone by. A sacred place, where no worries in the world can follow, No troubles from work are allowed to enter, only you and your desire to be at peace can break the waters edge. In my resent ventures over this past summer I had the opportunity to experience the river , its majesty and glory , Not only was I with the river I was with the finest people in the world to share the experience. By day floating lazily carefree and by night telling stories lounging about the cabin or sitting under the stars on the porch, cooking out burgers some night or fajita’s.. I often think of that trip and the fun we all had, to go back in time , even in memory can be so nice . Some days we would float solo or holding hands keeping close together. other days we banded are pack together by twine and traveled the river as one , like a Robin Hood and his merry men , or maybe Tom Sawyer and some of his boy hood chums. One particular day we were going solo , but I lashed the tube with the cooler to my rig 6 hours or so , surly you need some sort of refreshment and maybe even pull up on to a clear shore line for a bite to eat.. And so we did. After lunch two of are young explores Decided to forgo the tubes, swim a bit and comb the bottom of the river for secret hidden treasures,, Lost sunglass or the mother load a Iphone or other such valuable loot. Now with no use for there tubes , the young explores piled them on top of the cooler . So there I was, in my tube tied to a stack of three tubes and a cooler. To which the wind had greater strength to control then the slow easiness of the river current. Some times I would find the wind speeding me along , while others the wind dragging me back and my group of merry band of men flowing down the river far in front of me. While still enjoying the river the ride and the scenery I really had no control of the speed of my travel , to which side of the river I would coast. Sometimes the wind would bring me in to the tree line . Catching me on limbs and others casting me out into the deeper waters. Basicly I was at the mercy of powers much greater then myself.. As history repeats itself ,, this is where I find myself once more, only today laying in my hospital bed. With each day that passes more tubes are added to my burden, and now with each tube the wind carries me faster down the river then we could have ever imagined. Just a few hundred yards back the option of chemo loomed in the air to slow the winds and the current giving me more time to enjoy the river, but now once more due to powers beyond my control I find myself helpless. My illness grows faster then can be controlled. I am at peace, I am comfortable. I am in my tube enjoying every last minute of my ride Down the Guadalupe I can not see the end to the river nor do I look forward to its end.. I have my friends , I have my family , I have you all , and I have the love of a beautiful women , my angel, my everything to comfort and care for me I love you all And will to my best keep you posted In the mean time Don’t put things in your mouth and light them on fire !!

Congratulations Leanna on such an epic quit. You rock.

The last two lines are you!! K

Congratulations on 2 years smoke free, @mightyboosh Celebrate big today!

Just letting you know I am on the train. Grateful to know this support is here. Doing okay. Today has been clunky and doable. ever so grateful I choose to be quit. this is the life I want. must reread the relapse / maintenance information. I am curious how I will do things differently.

Hi @Grund! Congratulations on four years quit, that's fantastic! Thanks for checking in and letting us know how you're doing

That is so nice @Opah. Congratulations!

RIP Don Everly

Nope. I thought it was my second anniversary today not yesterday.

So glad you're here, friend! We all know you can do it! Christian99

@darcy kudos to you for jumping back on the train! I am so excited for you that you are reclaiming your freedom! I relate to that sentiment. I am just a few days away from being 4 weeks quit and I too love the freedom. I really love not having to plot when and where I can smoke when out and about. We've got this!!! ❤❤

Awesome to see you back, @Lust4Life I'm glad things are settling down for you and, of course, that you are still smoke free. (Everytime I see you post, that Iggy Pop Lust for Life song pops into my mind but I consider that a good thing ) I hope stick around.

That is very good and thank you for the reminder and for sharing... "Smoking is no longer an option for me. Smoking is just something I used to do. I control my actions, and smoking is a choice."

I have been sitting here reading this for several minutes, went over it about three times. It was not because I had a hard time understanding but actually the direct opposite. This post rings so true with what I am starting to go through at this time in my quit. I am now in my 9th week and complete 2 full months in a couple of days. I have to keep my quit, I have to make the choice and I have to celebrate every day that I choose not to smoke. The quit is no longer new but it is now a part of my life and I plan to keep this quit going. Thanks so much for posting this again.