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

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NOPE….. been awol for a bit had Covid again… Thank you Denali, getting there, just a cough to see away now.

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

Congratulations @StruggleDaily. Keep at it. 40 days is an awesome quit. My breakthrough came when that struggle going on in my brain had a new player step in and she was angry. She kind of slapped the ‘I’m in here forever Nicodemon’ and the ‘oh look at me, NOT SMOKING, vainglorious me’ around a little. Took control, put my foot down, and drew a line. Serious and sober minded. You really are on your way. 40+ days of being able to say, “I don’t smoke.” “I’m a non smoker.” Whoop, Whoop! I’m smiling! I bet you are too!

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NOPE….. been awol for a bit had Covid again….

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Congrats on 11 months Stew. I see your Ship coming in….

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-1 geez was kinda hoping @StruggleDaily was a chick

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Yeah, I think the anger this would cause someone would just fuel the need for another cigarette. I don’t know. While the ultimate responsibility for our smoking lies with us, Big T definitely should be held accountable for engineering their product to keep us hooked. I also think that a certain number of nicotine addicts would band together and start some kind of revolution. But most books and Hollywood almost always portray revolutionists as smokers. HaHa NOT funny really. Just an aspect of the Big T’s web.

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Same with me. I guess, as with any addiction, the addict has to reach their own personal ‘rock bottom’.

Gday They are no threat to humans only eat insects so have no interest in what we eat. The checky beggars know they safe from us and tolerate us in thier world.

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Fabulous achievement. Congratulations

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Wow that is something! Do they intentionally bother humans or just leave them alone?

Gday You could eat them but they are protected so you can’t. And they know it! Cheeky beggers. The males build a mound of leaf litter in which the female lays her eggs. The leaf litter rots and the heat keeps the eggs warm. The male tends the mound pilling up more leaf litter and removing it till the eggs hatch. The baby’s are completly independant when they hatch and look after themselves without the parents help. Dogs don’t have a chance they spray dirt and leaves and sticks at the dogs face with there powerfull feet and the dogs can’t see they then nip at the dogs tail and my dogs been chased more than once. They have figured what traffic lights are and will wait at a set of lights till they go red. As soon as the cars are stopped they race across the road. A friend looked at a house to rent. The front yard had just been landscape new turf plants and mulched garden beds. When he went to move in 2 days later. The whole lot was gone. A bush turkey had moved the lot across the road and built an egg mound down the side of an empty house. And there is nothing you can do to move it back either cause the bird will just move it back again. So they are pretty much urbanised now know they are protected so they thrive.

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Are they also for human consumption like American and Canadian turkeys are, or are they just wild birds? So they walk around the city?

Yes of a type…. It’s known as an Australian bush turkey. They are everywhere here in Brisbane even in the city itself

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Thankyou Chysalis, That original post is right where I am, still romancing the 'lovely ciggy'!!!! Tomorrow is day 40 of my latest quit, my best effort yet, and I am sticking to my daily NOPE but it so damn difficult. Logic plays no part in the feeling, just 50 years of an ex habit that is lingering for longer than I would like. The daily struggle will continue and I wish all of you the best in your efforts to stay away from the siren song of smoking.

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Now that it's been mentioned in this thread, I too have noticed they are running a similar set of TV commercials here in Canada recently too! It's not the same lady but a very similar woman that's talking about how her experience has affected her entire family. There's another one with a guy in it but here, it wouldn't be CDC based ads but Health Canada I think - same idea. As we all know though, those ads don't seem to have any immediate effect on convincing people to quit. Maybe they play them hoping for a subliminal effect later on when the people think about quitting on their own?

@Gus great post and insight. Those CDC commercials (that one plus the lady with the trach, and the man with the heart surgery scar) have been around for quite awhile. They have recently started airing again. I remember seeing them early in my quit. Oddly enough- I have friends that work at CDC- even worked on the anti-smoking campaigns. There is a shift in the messaging. If you see the newer anti-smoking ads (the ones for menthol cigs) - the focus is being mad at Big Tobacco. The sleazy marketing Big T used to lure certain demographics. That shift (continuing to expose the lies) will hopefully resonate vs the bad things happen to smokers approach. How many smokers read the warning labels on their packs while opening it, taking out a cigarette and lighting it? Or just plain avoid looking at the label-or don’t look because their talking, watching TV etc. I read the labels. Didn’t stop me. What if the labels listed the annual profits to Big T and/or the annual cost to one person to treat smoking related illness(es). Learning about addiction (Allen Carr)& the corruption of Big T really guided me in my quit… …And the online support! L4L

Beautiful post @Gus I did have the thought that if nothing convinced us to quit when we smoked; and that video will likely not convince anyine also, what exactly will? During the initial days of my quit, I wanted to (and did as well with some folks) tell everyone - friends, strangers - that they could quit also. Don't think it convinced anyone though which was a bit disappointing.

Congratulations and best wishes. Hang in there. You got this.

Gus Quit Date: 3-17-21 Posted 1 hour ago -(edited) Sorry to hear @Breath-of-Power. This addiction is real. It is powerful. I don’t know how much time you’ve spent reviewing the information about nicotine and the additives that cigarettes contain, but the stuff literally rewires your brain. Your brain. That organ that controls everything about you. After the nicotine withdrawal it’s what you will be fighting against. Of course it’s going to fight against reconditioning. You try again. Again and again. You write down why you are quitting. The truth. The ugly part of it. Carry that around with you. Read it every time you want a smoke. We all have something that we want more than that cigarette and one day if we allow ourselves the liberty to do so, we just smash a link in that chain of addiction and crawl out from the unbearable weight of it and in time we find ourselves standing against it and some day dancing on it’s grave. There are good times to be had. For years you’ve had to base decisions around your ability to indulge in your habit. Being able to enjoy a smoke. Lies. Smoking puts so many constraints on so many aspects of your life. Step back and realize that it’s not only affecting you, but those you love most. Not in the second hand smoke way, but just being able to 100% be there for someone. It’s hard. Conquering this addiction is so hard, but doable. I hope that you hop back on the train. I hope that you take advantage of this thread you created. Post, post, post. Just writing down all of your thoughts helps so much. Everyone here has gone through what you are going through. No judgment here. Just encouragement and support. I hope that you will try again. Link to original post: https://www.quittrain.com/topic/25067-smokeless-thoughts/