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Welcome aboard, Sarah. You are doing a great thing in quitting smoking. You are also right in wanting to have a positive attitude towards quitting. I made several short quit attempts that failed. This was because I viewed quitting as giving up something I loved to do. It wasn't until I realized and fully embraced the truth that smoking did nothing positive for me that I was able to quit for good. I was just feeding an addiction all while throwing away money on an addiction that was slowly killing me and also making me feel bad in living in a society that has grown increasingly anti-smoking. A quit smoking forum like this really helped me. There is a lot of advice and support you can gain here to help you quit for good. Also, if you haven't done so, seek out Allen Carr's book "The Easyway to Quit Smoking." Some people have mixed reactions to the book but it really helped me to see that smoking was doing nothing positive for me at all and that really helped me out. It is great to have you here and I hope you stick around. Quitting smoking is definitely doable and a smokefree life is worth whatever early struggles you may have.

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Congratulations on 4 months smoke free, Kate!

Congratulations Mona! You are doing great!

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I had smoking dreams all the time early on in my quit. I usually woke up depressed feeling like I had relapsed and it took a moment to figure out that it was just a dream. One dream was so clear, and weird, that I posted what I remembered on QSMB, the quit site I was on before here. I still occasionally have smoking dreams. The last one I remember, I actually fought through the cravings I was dreaming about and didn't smoke. Most of the ones I remembered ended with me smoking. In the awake world, I feel no temptation to smoke. I have occasional thoughts about lighting up but they are so weak that I can push them out of my mind real easily. They definitely are not craves like I had early on. I guess occasionally re-living smoking in a dream is a sign of how much a part of our lives feeding that addiction used to be. As long as you stay smoke free in the awake, real world, you are good.

Congratulations on 8 years smoke free, @greenlight That is awesome!

Congratulations on 2 weeks smoke free, Nana!

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Please check in and let us know how you are doing, @idontsmoke Quitting smoking and staying quit can be tough early on but it is definitely worth the early struggles and we're here to help you through them.

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Congratulations on your first month smoke free, Jeff! Keep up the awesome work!

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Great job, Mona. No need to cross your fingers. Staying nicotine free is definitely doable and is worth any struggles. You can do this!

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Three Covid cases were just detected in the retirement home that my grandmother lives in. From what I have heard, my grandmother is ok. Covid spreads so quickly in places like that though.. The daily infection rates are increasing in both my county and North Carolina in general. NC is started to be mentioned on a regular basis with states like Texas and Arizona as places where infection rates are really increasing. NC's governor has been reluctant to re-open things too fast but I think the political pressure and opposition are dictating things here now, not science. I do work for NC's state government though and at they are being extremely cautious. I am grateful for that. The private sector, though, is more of a mixed bag. A lot of people are walking around like the virus is behind us and don't seem to care at all. We'll see, I guess.