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Congratulations, @reciprocity! 6 years is a mighty good excuse for a happy dance. We miss you and we love you!

congrats reciprocity. awesome quit

Reciprocity, Hurray for your life of freedom.

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Congratulations Mr Piggy. You have been smoke free 6 years today ...Reward yourself well.... Hope it's not too long before you fly in and tell us how you are doing Your very missed around here

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Congratulations on 6 years smoke free, @reciprocity I hope you do something to celebrate and that you drop by QT soon. You are missed.

Happy six years quit @reciprocity, we sure miss you around here! I hope you celebrate today

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How are you getting along ...? We are here to help ,we would love to hear from you

I can relate to your association between housework / house projects and smoking, @darcy. I always used smoke breaks to punctuate projects, take breaks when I was frustrated, and celebrate tough jobs completed. It took a while to find different rhythms and rituals. Diet root beer on ice is my latest "tough task completed" or "annoyed with somebody/something at work" tool. You will find your own. As you head back to work, definitely have a number of things in your Quit Kit, since work often presents a lot of triggers. There will be tough days - it's not a linear process. But the gifts of quitting start to add up pretty fast (including the pride in earning your freedom). You CAN do this.

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Congratulations my friend, really awesome quit.

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Happy New Year Quit Train Gang! Just thought I'd post a quickie while I still can! I keep losing access to my account for months at a time for reasons I don't know of, which is why I don't come here often anymore LOL. Well Jan. 17 was year 3 cigarette and nicotine free for me. Yippee! And close to $5,000 saved to boot, woohoo! Congratulations to all you quitter-winners whose anniversaries I've seen roll by but I couldn't respond because my account was locked. Being active in the forum was so helpful for me in the first year of quitting. Now in year 3, I see how dedicated the regulars are in helping newbies go through their quits. Really a great group! Well, Happy 2023 and may it be an awesome one after the past 3 years of junk on junk. Thanks also for the condolences.

Hang in there @darcy you are worth it!

This technique always helped me in the early months of my quit...and I still use it to this day. Pema Chödrön teaches us a simple technique we can use anytime we need a break from our habitual patterns.Our habits are strong, so a certain discipline is required to step outside our cocoon and receive the magic of our surroundings. Pause practice—taking three conscious breaths at any moment when we notice that we are stuck—is a simple but powerful practice that each of us can do at any given moment. Pause practice can transform each day of your life. It creates an open doorway to the sacredness of the place in which you find yourself. The vastness, stillness, and magic of the place will dawn upon you, if you let your mind relax and drop for just a few breaths the story line you are working so hard to maintain. If you pause just long enough, you can reconnect with exactly where you are, with the immediacy of your experience. When you are waking up in the morning and you aren’t even out of bed yet, even if you are running late, you could just look out and drop the story line and take three conscious breaths. Just be where you are! When you are washing up, or making your coffee or tea, or brushing your teeth, just create a gap in your discursive mind. Take three conscious breaths. Just pause. Let it be a contrast to being all caught up. Let it be like popping a bubble. Let it be just a moment in time, and then go on. Maybe you are on your way to whatever you need to do for the day. You are in your car, or on the bus, or standing in line. But you can still create that gap by taking three conscious breaths and being right there with the immediacy of your experience, right there with whatever you are seeing, with whatever you are doing, with whatever you are feeling. http://www.lionsroar.com/waking-up-to-your-world/#

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Quitting is a journey Darcey...with a lot of bends along the track... Keep buckled in and ride them out ...every day is taking you nearer to Freedom ...

Congratulations Sweetheart.. 3 years is a great quit ....Don't forget your Reward today ...

Sorry you're having a hard day @darcy, unfortunately it's to be expected at this stage of your quit. It will get better though with each day and each trigger you get past. It was promised to me and I'm promising it to you About getting on with your smartphone, I just got my first smartphone last year and found that all I had to do was go to QT and in the settings of my browser there is an option to add to my home screen, now I have a pretty QT icon that gets me one click to get here

Congratulations on 3 years smoke free, @Angeleek Great job!

Yay Angeleek! Happy dancing for you! Freedom from nicotine is a huge accomplishment and gift. Rock on.

Congratulations on your 3 year quit!!!

Hurrah for your three years of freedom!

So true, @darcy. The writings are what got me through.

thanks to those who write , so we may read.

Now all I need do, is REMEMBER it when the 'whatever' hits...