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

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NOPE!! NADA!! NO SIR!! NO WAY!! NOT TODAY!! NOT TOMORROW!!

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Happy New Year, Linda and the Train! We made it to 2024 yoohoo!!! Hope you throw them cancer sticks out again...soon soon!!

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I been cheating on pepperoni and pineapple pizza with stuffed cheesy bread. Sorry not sorry......

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Hi tocevoD, oh yes, the thoughts.....they do go!!! I am almost 4 years, and hardly ever think about it now. Been this way for a while now.....congratulations, keep up the great work, stay on your guard.... you got this!!!! I will add that 9 months was a turning point, depression started lifting....i stopped obsessing....yeah....9 months for me...

Happy New Year, Quit Train! Hey Kdad, just checkin in how u r doing...see if you're sick of dem stogies again yet...Hope all is better on your side...

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I am cutting down on sugar specifically chocolate ... but today I had a few truffels ....... and then a couple chocolate chip cookies .. ugh! I'll do better tomorrow

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Okay, I like both of these teams…

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Remembering the game JACKs. threesey.

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

A Duce!

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Sorry to hear about your mis-step. The next time you feel your will power being sorely tested I'd like you to reread this thread of posts. You don't want to go down this road again. Its a gauntlet of remorse and self-recriminations. If you can quit for two months then the physical symptoms are not your enemy so much as your Junkie brain at odds with your higher reasoning. Don't even make smoking an option. Picture all of us cheering you on as you make the decision to stay the course.

I think we've all threw a quit away at some point. That's why we post on here, to share experiences like that. It's all about how fast we get back on the train. Make it a small blip and get straight back on. I had a habit of reading my Allen Carr book when I made a blip in the past. You need something to remind you why you quit in the 1st place. Keep fighting the good fight.

@Doreensfree Thank you,just not been feeling very social lately!

Hi Linda, how are you doing now? I was a serial quitter/relapser, but never quit digging to find the deepest "why should I quit" that I could. For me, it was the spread of Covid across Asia. I knew it was coming here and I felt certain that, if I got it, I'd die because of compromised lungs. The week following my quit (February something) Covid was discovered in the States about 15 miles north of me, in a retirement home in Kirkland, WA. (It was here sooner; it just hadn't been found until then.) With a good enough reason, initial crash and burns don't matter. We don't give up. And then we win. Elon Musk - I Don't Ever Give Up Gangsta's Paradise.mp4

You are doing exceptionally well @QuittingGirl. Especially for having to expose yourself to someone smoking on a daily basis. Focus on your NOPE and stay vigilant. Don’t allow yourself to romanticize smoking. Don’t become so comfortable around your mom’s home that you find yourself unthinkingly reaching out for a cigarette and lighting it. You did great by reaching out about this issue that concerns you and you got some really great advice from everyone. You talking about your mom reminded me of my Granny. LOL She lived well into her nineties and had smoked since she was a very young girl. She never had any major health issues. She was a tiny thing. She died peacefully in her sleep. She smoked filterless Camels. Grew up smoking home grown and rolled tobacco. She swore up and down that it was the filters that caused so many smokers their health problems.

Hi @QuittingGirl. Nice to see your post. Glad your mom is doing so well at her age. It’s great that she has your support! It’s natural to still have urges at 5 months - doubly so if you are in an environment where you’re often exposed to smoking. Heck, I still have urges at 18 months! I think it has more to do with internal factors (neural pathways built over decades as a smoker) vs external “temptation.” Whatever their source, the urges bug me sometimes, but more often than not they are just irritating…. as if a commercial I don’t like came onto the TV. Tune it out or change the (mental) channel. Because you are around cigarettes a lot, I think that means you need to stay pretty proactive about asserting the strength of your quit inside your own mind. So post a daily NOPE, use affirmations/prayers, and stay busy. Not sure you can prevent urges from arising (I haven’t been able to yet). But you can refuse to imbue them with power.