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NOPE

NOPE!

NOPE!

NOPE…

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

NOPE!

Nope.. not today, not ever!

NOPE

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

NOPE…

I beg to differ Pedro, each and everyone of us have had faith that what those that came before us are saying is true. As far as mantras go, I used to tell myself over and over again that "this too shall pass". And " All good(?) things must come to and end".

According to the CDC website: Smokers can and do quit smoking for good. In fact, since 2002 there have been more former smokers than current smokers. The full article can be found here: https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/cessation/smoking-cessation-fast-facts/index.html

I relapsed after my last quit. Made two weeks, but at that point my self-pity was immense. I was picking garbage on the road ride. I really was suffering from self-comiseration. I stopped coming here because I re-started smokiing so I felt embarassed to come here. and that seems like a mind-lie. I notice that while reading the posts in the forum, some words/phrases have a special shine, that calls my attention(and other users). I think writing them down may , the words, sound reasonable. There is also talk about having faith in ourselves. That is a nice direction and should be explored more. So far, the practice of the faith-of-not-smoking seems to be writing down NOPE. My wish, my wish is to come up with a mantra. Reading this forum, seeing the material, reading, is important. Now the aspect of faith is not being explored. A mantra that helps, through recitation, to fixate and bring to awareness the shines we get from our studies here (and elsewhere). Faith into action - call it that way.