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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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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 !!

Congrats, @Leanna! Celebrate your milestone and KTQ!

No matter how difficult the path is never take your eyes away from your destination

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@Katgirl you've got a great workout going. I wouldn't worry too much about the calorie calculations by the different machines - they may have their own margins of error. As long as your body is telling you it was a good workout, that's important.

Uncle Eddie yodels

Back at the ranch today, so treadmill time. It’s weird to me that it seems easier than the exercise bike, but burns more calories. It seems counterintuitive. I think my heart gets a better workout on the treadmill, and on the bike, it’s my legs that get more of a workout, and get tired. The incline on the treadmill is probably what makes me burn more calories. It’s nice that I own both pieces of equipment, and can maintain an exercise routine at both homes. It’s also nice to change things up. Today I did 32 minutes at 2.5- 3 % incline, at 3.3 mph. My target heart rate was right where it should be. I take it, manually, several times during my workout. (I am a retired RN) so, easy easy, for me. No need for a heart monitor on my equipment, though it’s available on both.

Congratulations....2 years is a great quit ..Reward yourself with something special

NOPE… thought I hadn’t noped today but I had. Tried to delete but no option .

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

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

You have been there and done that Darcy, so get back to it. I am still working on getting a year under my belt and just seem to blow it just before. This is the one I get to that year and just like Forest Gump I ran my quit to a year I might as well run it to two years and the 3, 4, 5. You have your tools, you have all this support grab on and run with it !

Hello, @darcy! I am so glad that you hopped aboard, again. Now, hang out with us. You won’t regret it. If the urge strikes again, and you feel overwhelmed, send out an SOS. We are all here for you.

We've been looking all over for you! Welcome back