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Another April quitter checking in - hello to you both!

Yep, threes blow thrice. You're doing great though, so great in fact that it makes it hard to offer advice. Rude. On an unrelated note, how did "funk" ever get to be such a glum word, when it's such great music? Keep going, porncakes.

Hey, if we all teamed up as a comic tv cop trio we could be "bakon maple pancakes". My punchline would always be about how we were in a sticky situation. But that's IF I were secretly in teh Canadian FBI. Which I'm totally not. now I'm hungry

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Where in the world are you? The west coast of Canada. When and how did you quit? April 15 2012. Switched to snus for three weeks, but I didn't taper off or anything so I consider it cold turkey. Did smoking affect your health that you know of? My mental health for sure. I also think I gave myself a small hernia from coughing. I hope that's it. Has quitting significantly improved things? My mental health for sure. My stamina went through the roof, my nose works better, I don't see stars from standing up anymore, my sleep is sublime, my heart doesn't skip beats... What is the last music album you bought? I raided a thrift store about 6 months ago and bought actual record albums, the one on the top of the pile is the Doobie Brothers "Minute by Minute", so I'll say that one was last. Are you a parent? Not that I know of. <_< Tell me an interesting fact about you... I once jumped off a cliff just because all my friends did. Also it was the only way off the mountain. What is your current (or your last) job? Almost all my jobs have been government related, one way or another.

Congratulations on the Big 1! I bet people feel like poop when they climb Everest too, but it still rocks.

There's "truth", and then there's TRUTH. I think this is going on my fridge.

P&P, you're a treat to watch - congratulations on hitting two weeks! Of course there may be some trying times ahead yet, so keep your guard up always, but in the meantime you deserve a treat. I hope other lurkers are following your progress so they can see how it's done.

Man you're bad at typing! Just call me already, no need to advertise.

I agree with several above, keeping a lockbox of "emergency tobacco" is a disaster waiting to happen - there is no emergency that smoking will make better, and if you believe otherwise you're romancing the addiction. But then again I'm a hypocrite, and I still have my "last cigarette" that I never smoked, buried somewhere in a back closet. In fact, I also have my old pipe collection, though without any tobacco. I think the difference is that I was never tempted by those things. I actually live around the corner from a 24 hour store and could get smokes anytime, so there's no avoiding it. I kept those things as trophies of my conquest. But if there's any part of you that wants to get in that box, you need to throw that box out. Oh, and drinking without smoking ABSOLUTELY gets easier, and it's been a very long time since I've felt that association (and I drink frequently). But maybe it's better to stay in with the hubs and have a wine & movie night or two, and get that trigger dulled before heading out on the town where you're surrounded by temptation.

Just look at you - when you joined the board everyone mistook you for spam, and now you've become some sort of hybrid porcine food product. How things have changed. Oh, and you made it through "hell week", and every soul here knows what that means. Congratulations pigblanket, you really hit the ground running.

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So I got it wrong but did it right? Move over, Schroedinger!

So, this guy I know posted two "stupid things" threads one right under the other, and I don't even know what to blame! Could be the puppy, the ADD, the drinking water... I'm even considering cross-posting - it's a real conundrum!!

I'm not sure what makes one a veteran - I've been quit about three and a half years, and Nancy's at about two years and some months, if you look under our avatars it should list our quit dates (or at least it does in my viewer). I remember being where you are now, and that would have seemed like a long time to me. Like you, I also did not intend to quit, it kind of snuck up on me - I've read somewhere that those quits actually have better odds of sticking, but who knows, I only ever quit that one time. Hey, it worked for me, I bet it will work for you, I have a good feeling about you (knock wood no jinxies!). I think there's something to your perception - smoking makes you stop doing what you're doing, and maybe look around a bit, and we live in a world where this quality is sadly uncommon. But so does meditation, or mindfulness, or sweet smelly roses, and they don't slowly kill you in the bargain, so it's nothing special.

The stars will still be there whether you smoke or not, though cigarettes might hasten your meeting. Right now these things are all connected to smoking, and so they all make you miss it. Over time you will break those associations, and come back to enjoy the stars and the sea as they really are, and not through a smoky haze.

My my, look who's a big boy! Congrats on 2 years dude, that's a great milestone.

Anyone named after booze is a friend of mine. Congratulations on 2!

Lie: "I need a smoke." Truth: "You're a dumbass."

Way to go Rowlyd, great to see you made it to the Big 1.

You're new here, so I fixed it for you. :) Day 3 is hard! Do what you gotta do, just don't do what you gotta not.

I think some people might assume you're here to spam the app, which wouldn't be well received, and I dithered at first. But I've decided you sound genuine, and the part about not sleeping and obsessive thinking and being astonished all remind me of me back then - every morning for months I'd be shocked all over again as I stepped into the shower without first lighting up, I'd say to myself "I don't smoke anymore" like a bewildered child. Not that children should smoke to begin with. Anyway. Here's a secret - your sleep will come back, and it will be AWESOME. Congrats on day 3, and welcome aboard.

Congrats on one week! I'm proud of the way you've jumped right back on the train - let's make it the last time.

You know what's even more dull and boring than life? The alternative. I'm curious though - when you say "I feel like smoking", do you mean you feel like smoking *one* cigarette? Two? One pack and then that's it, right back to where you are now, like it never happened? Or do you mean you want to be a smoker again, the way it was before you quit? Because if it's the first option I think you're a dreamer (and a romancer), and if it's the second one you're a madman (and a fool). There is no such thing as "just one" and you know it, that's why you quit. The only reason you're able to romance them now is because you're so far away from them that you're forgetting the reality. Smoke now and it's not just "one slip", the way I used to imagine it; it's a fall all the way back to the beginning of the nightmare. Don't just romance the memory, really remember it for what it was. Every foul, shameful, hopeless moment. I'd rather be bored. *edited to add:

That's the second time this thread (that I started) has compelled me to consult {{blech}} Wikipedia. The things I do just to bring great music to the masses.