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Welcome Steven and congratulations on deciding to quit. I too was a long time smoker and was glad I found a place like this with so much information and so many wise people who had quit before me and stuck around to pass on information about quitting. You'll learn a lot here if you use the forum to it's full extent. Remember this about nicotine addiction: Smoking is short term pleasure followed by long term consequences and quitting is short term challenges followed by long term benefits. Choose wisely!

Congrats Mona on reaching the 1/4 year quit mark today! It's really heartening to see how you have made all your quit tools work for you so well this time Keep up the great work!

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Each one of us here was at one time exactly where you are today Linda and we made it through to find our own personal freedom from the slavery of nicotine addiction. That's exactly where we all want to see you get to - freedom from your servitude to nicotine! It's possible - it's doable! Just grit your teeth if you have to in the early days and carry on to freedom! It will get easier as time goes on! Understand that quitting won't kill you but going back to the smokes likely will. That thought and other similar ones kept me motivated in the early days of my quit when the nicodemon was trying his best to lure me back to feeding my addiction.. One day at a time is how we do it. Before you know it, smoking will be a distant memory and the benefits you gain from quitting continue on for the rest of your nonsmoking life!

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Thought I was doing you gals a good turn by not playing anymore but .... doesn't appear to have made a bit of difference

6 months - 1/2 Year. Time to celebrate before completing your first full year Great Job Angeleek!

Just do your own thing Darcy. Why worry about others and how you stack up to them or their experience as a quitter. We are all different. We all quit differently but in the end, it is our own choice as to how we quit and become free or whether we bow to our addiction and begin feeding it again. Why should you not be entitled to enjoy the benefits of being smoke free? Just do it your way because .... your way will be PERFECT for you Your quit is still relatively young. Be patient. It will continue to get better and easier as time goes by. That doesn't stop at some point. It's a continual process. Give it time, lots of time. You'll see ...............

I was on the patch for 2 days then forgot to put it back on after a morning showier on the third day. Ended up giving the patches to someone else a week later and went cold turkey from there on. It was fine. A little white-knuckled at times for the first couple of weeks but I managed to navigate the storm my addiction created for me in order to try and lure me back to feeding it. NOPE! Not doin' that!

Tomorrow brings a new perspective; a new focus. Remember, YOU are in control of your addiction - not the other way around! Make it simple. Get back to the basic rule of quitting NOPE and you'll be fine.

it was 42 degrees C here today (about 107-108 F) so the wife & I said; "what should we do today?" when we were having our morning coffee. I told her, "there's about 1/2 of the interlocking stone driveway across the street where the steam shovel destroyed that house last week. Is there something we can do with those interlock stones?" Oh boy, what a mistake saying that was! She immediately figures we're gonna build a semi-nice garden on one side of our house where we never go or even see for that matter. She wants to use the interlock stones to border it on 2 sides? It's just been dirt & a complete weed-fest ever since we moved into the place. Unfortunately, at 9:00 AM I didn't think to take a photo of the "weed-fest" but trust me, it was gross & our neighbour has a walkway leading from their driveway to the back door of their house right beside it and have been complaining about it ever since we moved in. So, wheelbarrow and pick-axe in hand with the sun already beating on us, we go across the street and start bringing back loads of interlock stones 20 at a time. Between 9:30 AM and 3:30 PM we did what I thought would be impossible and built this little Garden of Eden along the south side of the house in completely unbearable sun and heat! It turned out to be a 4-beer job with frequent trips into the AC inside the house for whatever excuse we could think of at the time. That done, our clothes dirty and soaked with sweat, we still managed to slow cook a prime rib roast of beef on the charcoal grill which turned into a work of medium rare perfection At the end of it all, and reflecting on the day, I couldn't help but think what a perfectly productive day spent alone with my partner enjoying the frustrations, hard work and unplanned difficulties of what we seemed to have accomplished capped off with a beautiful meal. I wish everyone could have many of these days. It's all unplanned and just happens when you least expect it. Oh and both of us as X-smokers .... did either one of us ever even think of having a smoke? I know I didn't and I'm pretty sure the wife didn't either

Clearly Flats won by a long shot. I guess the issue here that really matters is that chicken wings are GREAT, no matter what yer preference!

3 is great Mac!

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Congratulations on marking your 8th full year smoke free Babs. That's certainly an inspirational quit and is a beacon for new quitters to strive toward. Hope you find a way to celebrate because quitting never gets old! (oops - my bad! Originally had this a year short at 7 years )

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