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Good job posting here for support @Pedro! It is natural for the first few days to be difficult. Your body is addicted to nicotine and is going through physical and psychological withdrawal. It helped me to stay busy - do lots of physical tasks (pushups, walking and chores). Snack often - stay hydrated and keep your blood sugar up. And stay educated. Our addicted brains will tell us that we need to smoke or will minimize the harm of smoking. Don’t listen! Fight back by remembering the facts: You are in the right place to regain your freedom. The cravings will ease in time. You can do this!!

Pedro, you are doing this because you want to conquer something in your life: your dignity. Your health. Your mental abilities. You want to be a functionable and contributive member of society, you want a magic life, you want money (you do!), you want to believe. Create your own faith, if faith lacks! It's an act of courage to recover from this addiction. You will feel very much better mentally. You will not be bothered with trivial nuisances. Your mind will benefit - keen mind. Remember that breathing fosters remembering and that is something magic you want in your life. You want to do many things. And see the world for what it is. Smoking prevents that. I know you are sensible. Many people are. You want to develop warriors hope and warriorship. Please consider not smoking and taking life in. The way it, be it hell, continue. I know you try to focus on the positive side of not smoking. I know you try to convince yourself that you want this, which is hard because you don't believe in yourself. Be it so. Become a recovering person. Always recovering! Conquer your fears! This mind of yours fears not being fed, that is what it is, all there is to it is this! It is the monkey mind. It will be hard times, good times, recovering times. It's normal your quitting is a mess. But it is the way. Now go about your day, feeling. The coming and going of relaxation and anxiety. Come back here if you need. You will, because you like writing. Now to go to the job interview!

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You are doing this to better your life, it takes time to get there. This is a nasty addiction. The timing doesn't feel right? It may never feel right....we are addicts and that junkie has a loud voice in our brain. Educating yourself by reading here will help you to rewire your brain. So much great info here! Commit to your quit...take smoking off the table. Post often. We understand. You can do it.

Welcome aboard @Pedro. there's a lot of resources here to help you once you make up your mind to quit. it can be quite a rough journey but definitely worth the effort. your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to never put anything in your mouth and set fire to it. that's the only task.

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So cold turkey and day one without puffs. I am going Loco!! About to go to a job interview and going through a swirl of emotions, shaking a little bit, questioning hard myself! SOS it is! Really putting myself out there, I am. Questioning if I'm doing it right! Thinking I can't do it. Why oh why am I doing this?!

Welcome @Pedro Lots of good advice already given. I just wanted to say that you are making a great decision in quitting smoking. Are you doing it right? Well, as long as you don't puff on a cigarette, you are. I know that sounds very scary in the beginning but it is that simple. NOPE - Not One Puff Ever or NTAP - Never Take Another Puff. Don't think of it as ever, early on, just fight through the early tough times and promise yourself that you will not smoke and focus on getting through the early struggles smoke free. Each time you overcome tough craves or struggles, your quit goes stronger. Why are you doing this? With time, you will be a much healthier and stronger person leaving the smokes behind. There are tons of great reasons to quit smoking (they are posted all over this site) but no good reason to keep smoking....all you do by continuing to smoke is to continue to feed an addiction that will only kill you. You did a great thing in posting an SOS. Hopefully the responses you got will help you stay smoke free. Always feel free to reach out if you are struggling. With time, things do get better and you are doing a great thing in quitting smoking. Welcome to the site. It is good to have you here.

Sorry I'm late ... Pedro...The first days are hard ...but every time you fight and win your battles ..your nearer to winning your war. There is loads of great posts to help you ..check out the green pinned posts on the Main Smoking Board.. Stay close to the board ...post a SOS as often as you need ...I've seen alot of quits saved this way ...

Than guys special thank you for the one member @DenaliBlueswho suggest I do chores and physical exercise. I am more anxious if I'm in a still position like watching TV. A little trouble with finding ease of breath when sitted. I'll check the links late on, now I got to move(???)

@Pedro, here's a link that will give you tips on getting past these first few hard weeks. Good on you for posting you need help. Hopefully you're feeling better now https://www.quittrain.com/topic/11361-toolbox-ideas-for-newbies/

@Pedro what @DenaliBlues said is spot on. I took a week off of work to fight through the early withdrawals. Eat/snack often and drink juice, your blood sugar will be disrupted for a little while. After the first 3 days all the nicotine is gone from your body and the physical withdrawals are over. Quitting is doable and worth it.

Hi Pedro, glad to hear you are ready to quit smoking. As far as whether you are a nonsmoker yet, obviously if you've just had one you're not. But as soon as you commit to never taking another puff you will be That being said, quitting smoking certainly will make your life better. Much better in fact but I personally don't think there's such a thing as a perfect life. We will all always have trials and tribulations imo because that to me is the meaning of life. But quitting smoking is one thing that will get you closer to that perfect life you're looking for.

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@Kris I can relate to your struggles. But keep on fighting the battle Don't throw your quit away like I did and have to start all over. For me this time has been much harder than before. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I know for me sometimes everyone here seems to be doing so well and having a much easier time than myself. I know positivity is important but the struggle is real for all of us. Hang in there my friend.

I have not posted a lot any more. Everyone seems to be fine, they are not having any problems after getting thru the first part. I am about 16 months out and I still struggle everyday. I am sure part of it is I have no distractions, retired, don't work, widow, not a lot of social interaction. I thought by this point it would be over, I would be over it. No one seems to talk about this. Are there any others that have quit but still struggle? What do I do? When will the callings stop? Is it worth the mental pain and anxiety? Shit, I just don't know what to think. These days I come on the board no one is talking about quiting, the journey, the struggle we face every day.No one pouring out their feelings about the whole thing. Is everything so easy, there is not struggle to keep hold of all those things that make us want to smoke. There is just not the physical withdrawal to deal with. What about the emotional, metal things that keep that desire to smoke fueled. How are we supposed to get rid of those? My nightmares and real life drive me to find some kind of relief.

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Stay strong Pedro and visit the sites. My best wishes and stay close to the board.

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

Hello and welcome .. We will be here to help you in your journey to free yourself ...when you have decided your done with this killer addiction.. Make the decision never to smoke again no matter what ...and stick to it ..there will be curves along the way...but eventually you will reach your freedom

@overcome ... switch out your onion for a leak add some chicken stock and that's the ingredients to my spud soup. I brown the butter a bit, soften the leaks then cook the bacon until the fat renders, add the spuds and just enough stock to cover... boil until spud very soft then puree and add enough evaporated milk to get the right consistency.

Hello everyone. I'm quoting this because it seems wise words. Maybe it applies to me. I am about to join the quit train, and so.. These words by @Paul723 seem deep. Life will always be a challenge and as @johnny5 says it is not perfect as a non smoker. Not that I am one, or am I? I would say no since I just had a smoke. But I am wanting to commit to this community. I do think one thing that makes things worse, I notice.. : I am after a perfect life and somehow I reasoned that will be when I stop smoking. There! Right here is a mistaken thought, an error. That said, thanks for the space to post.

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Hi Kris .... You are still early into your Quit ...you smoked for decades ...so be a little kinder to yourself ... Every time you fight the urge you are a Winner ....you have come so far...the only way is forward.. Remember how you felt when you wanted to free yourself ...you must have had a good reason ... I feel you still want this quit ...you have come here ... Maybe stay a while ...talking it through might help you move forward ... We are all here to help....

@Kris as far as I'm concerned you always have a place here. whether you like it or not we on this forum are your tribe. we all understand what beating this addiction is like so don't feel like you are alone in the struggles you have. we all have this void in our minds that for years we have tried to fill with smoking. some people use food or sex or thrill seeking or other drugs, but the reality is that void is always there. it has to be. it's what drives us to keep going but when we stop doing the thing to try to fill it we forget the value of it's true purpose. that desire you feel isn't an enemy to be defeated. it's your guide. we as smokers or ex smokers have forgotten how to use it because we spent so much time trying to cover it up and seek a life of ease. a life of ease is torment, that void makes us seek a life of fulfilment. I'm sure none of this made much sense but I hope it helps in some way.

So this Friday we are having an International Community lunch at work. Basically bring a plate from your cultural background.... I just can't decide...wot do I bring. So my names on the savoury list or I would have just done pavs.... I was going to make sausage rolls but one of the other Aussies has said they are doing that. Now the brief is bring something from you cultural background... for me that's Aussie... but if you go back far enough it's mainly Irish, then chuck in some Scott, German, Norwegian, and French... I'm a full bitsa (bits of this, bits of that). Options rattling around my brain are... pumpkin soup with some home made soda bread, kangaroo and beetroot capaccio (probably too fancy for thus mob), apricot chicken (for that nod to my bogan ancestry), curried egg and lettuce sandwiches, shepherds pie, rissoles in gravy with mash or lamb stew. I'll get pics cos we are expecting food from China, Poland, Vietnam, Philippines, Serbia, Malaysia, Croatia, Cambodia, Turkey, India, Burma, Pakistan, Malta, Spain, Greece, Italy, England, Scotland and of course Aussie. One of the warehouse kids is bringing Vegemite sandwiches and for a fancy option Vegemite and cheese sandwiches too. WOT would you bring??

1. One of the kids calling just to talk.....usually ends with money being the topic.

8. Something or someone scaring me How about eight things most people are scared of.....

6. Arguing with someone

Ok I'll give that a try on the next batch, had to do a google search for a leak to see what that was. Thank you!

Not a stormy day here but I made soup. My Mother used to make the best potato soup and since she passed we have not been able to find the recipe. This is around my 10th batch trying to recreate it, Mom never put corn in (usually on the side) but I am going to add some next time. It taste better than it looks, as attested by my kids, as soon a I text them I made potato soup they come over to get some, along with dinner rolls. 5lbs potato's 1lb bacon 1/2 onion 1.5 tbsp butter 12oz evaporated milk salt/pepper next corn......

Tink Quit Date: 22/11/2013 Posted April 12, 2014 YOU - thats who! no one else no situation you find yourself in however difficult its all down to YOU sometimes you just have to bring your big bad ass self to the surface and say "I am in charge here" - "This is my quit, my life" and nothing and no-one is going to bring me down! (I am not a creative writer, I say it how it is for me - the above statement has saved my quit - I hope it reaches someone else) Link to original post: https://www.quittrain.com/topic/565-who-is-in-charge-of-this-quit/

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Thank you all for the replies. I quit for medical reasons. I am proud of the fact that I have not had a stumble. I just knew I needed to make this post. That I have to be honest, I have to vent somewhere. You all are the only ones that have done it, are doing it. It helps me to know others sometimes feel as I do. I know this will be a life long struggle, when things get tough, we I think I can't keep going. You are all heat to listen, to help and I am so grateful!!

I still have those times when I want to say "to hell with it and give me a smoke". Had one yesterday evening at a bar stopping to pick up food to take home. I`m also retired but have been doing some part time work. Stressful week driving across Phoenix rush hour traffic and feeling pretty low about my life. Anyway, I was sitting at the bar drinking my beer and Jim Beam watching the football game waiting for my take out when the fellow sitting next to me said" excuse me got to go outside and take a smoke, want one?"The thought of myself sitting outside on the patio Beam in hand, cold beer near by, holding a smoke. Sounded good. What the hell one won`t hurt. I think I could get away with it and not start up again. Smoked well over 30 years before I finally broke the habit. Perhaps I could get away with it but I would be letting myself down. Much needed post Kris. Great respones from the community.

Hey @Kris, I agree with the above. You're still thinking you're missing out by not smoking. One thing I did each month was I would go back and read my posts from the beginning of my quit and remind myself how badly I wanted to be where I am now. Unfortunately I lost all my early posts when the forum I was on back then imploded. But it will really help you to not forget where you came from. That being said, you may have rogue craves for years, I have. The difference now though is that they come and go so quickly its a non issue and easily swatted away

Just to be clear ..... I was NOT involved in designing or minting the first Canadian coin to feature King Charles image, replacing our traditional Queen Elisabeth image

So I finally pulled the trigger on replacing a storm door that's needed replaced for about 6 months. It's one of those tedious, sometimes aggravating projects, w/ lots of steps that I really didn't want to do but it had to be done. From tearing off the old one to installing, then cleaning up the mess took about 6hrs. I was having huge cravings multiple times. This is the kind of project a cigarette would have given me a reason to take a break from the job. In the past, multiple times I would have come up w/ a reason to leave in my car (need a fresh fountain drink, probably need a tube of caulk, etc) so I could go have a cigarette and give myself a break. Instead, I just worked on it for 6hrs straight, forgetting to even eat lunch, just because I wanted it over with. So many times I thought how much I wanted to leave and go smoke. So many times I thought how when the project was done, I could tell my wife I was going to go hike, but buy a pack on the way. Nobody would know. And darn straight I would have enjoyed every last puff. But I made it through. I wanted to smoke about 6. But I did not want the 7000 that would come with the 6. And I didn't want to spend $4000 for those 6. I know full well I would lose all my mojo if I have even 1 and it always takes me well over a year before I can bring myself to start a serious quit. Should have taken a break and gotten on here cause it was getting real. But, it's good to get some experience learning how to deal w/ an aggravating situation w/o nicotene. OK, that's my whine.