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Congratulations on three years smoke free, Diane! I hope you celebrate this huge accomplishment. Please feel free to check in and let us know how you are doing.

Glad to hear your quit is strong, Diane, and that you were safe during the hurricane. I feel for all impacted by the storm and I pray for your friends and family impacted by this. I look forward to hearing more from you when things get settled. Great job on keeping the quit.

Hey Pots, I'm glad your kid is ok. Every time I hear a post from someone who relapses and says that they "had to smoke because..." I can't help but think of Cristobal's post that Sazerac shared, Your Quit and Your Life - The Proper Sequence A successful quitter realizes that they cannot smoke ever, no matter what life throws at them. Relapsing and smoking a cigarette is a conscious decision. No life event made the person light up. The person decided to light up and relapse on their own. A successful quitter must never allow a person or event influence them into lighting up again. In order to successfully quit, you must never take another puff. Yes, take it one day and one moment at a time but the ups and downs of life (which will always be there) cannot influence your quit. You must be serious about this and realize the only thing that can make you smoke is yourself. I agree with the other posters too. Why wait? There is no better time than now. You keep torturing yourself with all of these relapses. Start back now. Commit to never taking another puff and reach out to this board anytime you feel tempted. We all want to see you succeed but you are the one who has to make the commitment.

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Those are great pictures. Thanks for sharing!

I am sure your doctor will be happy that you have quit and it will feel great to tell him the awesome news. I hope all goes well with your doctor's appointment and keep up the great work!

Congratulations Leanna! That is an awesome quit!

NOPE - smoking sucks!

1 @Sazerac I haven't seen Wallace and Gromit in a long time but it is really funny. Check it out if you get the chance.

NOPE - I don't smoke anymore.

Juan, I'm happy you keep trying to quit. It is clear that you know life is better as a non-smoker. Still, those first few hours and days are really tough. Once you make it through them, things slowly get better. With time, a lot better. Do yourself a favor. Commit to never taking another puff (NOPE) and, if you are struggling and tempted to light up, reach out here first and post an SOS. You can do this. It is tough early on but quitting is very doable. The long term rewards to a smoke free life are worth the early struggles. You just have to commit to NOPE.

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I'm fine. The people I know near Wilmington didn't even lose power which is quite surprising. There were a lot of tornadoes in eastern NC and flooding on the Outer Banks but I think everyone I know towards the coast is fine. The weather here in Raleigh wasn't too bad.

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So far, things are ok for me. It isn't too bad here. Some wind gusts but, for the most part, just some heavy rain. Last I heard, my friends and family in the coastal area of NC are ok. Thanks for asking. I appreciate it.

Allen Carr was very instrumental in my quit as well. It help me focus on how smokers smoke because they are feeding an addiction. The book made me question if I really enjoyed the act of smoking. It is possible I did early on but I grew to hate it in my past few years as a smoker. There is a chapter in that book titled, "The Advantages of Being a Smoker" and it is a blank page. There are really no positives to smoking at all. There are a lot of positives to quitting though. Once I realized that smoking offered nothing positive for me and quitting offered a much better life, it really helped me quit for good.