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G’day NOPE .....Not One Puff Ever.... (replace Ever with Min,Hour, Day as required) Rain rain and more bloody rain

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Congrats! Hoping you are feeling so good. You deserve it!

Congratulations on three months smoke-free. Good job.

Yay @intoxicated yoda! Big congratulations to you!!

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Congratulations on 3 months!!! You are doing great

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Congratulations @notsmokinjo on four years quit! I hope you know how awesome we think you are and celebrate this huge accomplishment

NOPE. @Cbdave Love the pictures. Thank you for sharing your beautiful country.

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Congratulations on 3 months quit!! You are doing great!

Congratulations Yoda, this is great news. Don't forget to reward yourself for this great accomplishment.

Enjoying the start of the Christmas season. The house is lit up. The tree is up and decorated. Wreaths, stockings, and various other Christmastime themed items have been strategically placed throughout the house. Santa Claus has been renamed "ho-ho" by my daughter. Watched Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer earlier; Maddie makes roaring noises when King Moonracer comes on. Christmastime is on here at Boo Acres.

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Is it a "thought" (habit) to smoke or a true desire to smoke? For me, smoking served as a pacifier. I had severe physical trauma when I was little (2-3 years old) and, as a result, I sucked my thumb for years. I believe smoking was an extension of that, i.e. the need for some type of primal comfort. I had to go to speech therapy which was shaming. Braces for years. In unpacking this over the last four years (when I got serious about quitting), I realized that smoking does not do much to pacify the fear. In fact, it heightened it and kept it going. The more I smoked, the longer I smoked, the shittier I felt about myself. It was a spiral. I still have thoughts of smoking regularly-how could I (we) not? But every time I do, I remember just how bad it felt to do it. Somewhere there is the belief that we can go back to a time when smoking felt "good." I don't doubt there were many times I "thought" it was helping. Or was fun. But the truth is it hurt. And it smelled. And it made me feel disgusted with myself. What has begun to shift things for me (although not instantaneously) is to remove the thought/belief/feeling that smoking conferred any benefit whatsoever. I am militant with myself on this. Not sure if any of this resonates. Thanks for sharing and I'm sending prayers for strength your way.

I don't know about other successful quitters, but the passing of time has made it easier and easier to deal with a desire for a cigarette. The feeling of wanting one is less frequent, it's milder and fleeting. It's a reinforcement that I see ticker racking up the days I've not smoked, the thousands of cigarettes not smoked, and money saved. Ah, just remembered, there is also the amount of time I've not wasted smoking. If I count each cigarette as a use of 15 minutes (to get to a smoking place, smoking, and returning to where ever I needed to get back to), I've saved 3,217 hours.

It's that time once again...time for Christmas music. In the past I always started my Christmas song postings with "Blue Christmas" by Elvis. Changing things up this year. My daughter started dancing to this one earlier so it moves to the top of my list.

Congratulations @intoxicated yoda on your third month quit, that's GREAT!

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Congratulations you are awesome!!!

Be proud and celebrate the day @notsmokinjo!

Congratulations @notsmokinjo 4 years smoke free is awesome!

Mojito as well

Congrats, @intoxicated yoda! Celebrate your achievement and KTQ!

Yaaaa....A Quarter of the way there ....we are very proud of you ...Reward yourself well... You have so earned it .... That's something to dance about ...

Congratulations to you. 3 Months is amazing

Congratulations Intoxicated Yoda. You are doing great!

I had a good Thanksgiving day yesterday. But I got up this AM made my coffee and for some reason I have this overwhelming thought that I want a cigarette. No trigger that I realize. But I won't smoke so not really an SOS, but all I can think where did that come from Telling myself this to will pass.

Linda an Kris .... Your both still in early quit stage .... You smoked for Decades....of course your bound to have thoughts ... It what you do with those thoughts that matter .... If you didn't t smoke ...your a Winner .... It's ok to have wobbles ....just steady yourself and don't fall over .... The next Thanksgiving will feel so much different....

I didn't even remember writing this. Sometimes I forget just how wise and insightful I really am.

We are heading into that time of year and, even though I feel confident in my quit, I am a little fearful of the holidays. They use to be such a great joy and spiritual fulfillment for me but over the last couple of years I have come to dread them. My emphasis was always on having that loving memory that was going to be left behind. What always occurred was more like one of those comedies you see at the movies. I always got through by sneaking upstairs to the bathroom and having my smoke out the window. Every year I start fresh with that hope and end with such disappointment. I know you will all tell me to go away for the holidays but I can't. I know my grand kids look forward to Grandma's homemade sticky buns and my son is single and does not have a family besides us. This might be the last year with my dad. His health is declining. No one has the perfect get together and I am sure that even though things do not go as planned, we will probably still look back and find something good about them. I know the longer I stay quit, the more powerful I become. Maybe my fear this year is that I may be too outspoken for everyone. I might just finally not put up with some peoples sh**t. Whatever, I just wanted to get this out there as we head into the holidays. You are all so great at redirecting my thoughts and helping me through. .

Sweetheart , With all the hype that leads up to Xmas....it easy to sit and reflect when things are not as perfect as we would like .....and wish some area,s in our life were different ...I'm with you on this . I have learnt over the years ,to just except things ...and it's only a short time ... Sometimes thinking about a situation makes our brains go in overload.....just stick to NOPE...you are a stronger person now.....one who will speak her mind and I know you will do just fine .. This is the first Xmas of many smoke free...that something to cheer about ...I'll raise my glass to that....