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Here's a classic: Just one would help relieve the stress I'm having in my life at the moment!

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Huge congrats Doreen! 6 years is pretty cool and I know you worked hard to get here so be sure to celebrate and treat yourself to something real special. You my friend deserve nothing but the best!

1. Is True - ate a bunch of great food and heard some pretty different music (Polka anyone lol). Monday was a Holiday here were I live so that's why it was on the Monday. Good deductive reasoning tho Linda 2. Is true although I had to break down and wear actual shoes tonight for a fancy-pants dinner with friends. Even wore the Flips for mowing the lawn and amazingly, still have 5 toes on each foot. 3. Is the lie! Boring brown until late 20's when grey started coming. White by mid 40's but ..... still have a full head of it so I guess that's something? (Never heard of Toe (Tow) Head before lol). Appears you're up Saz

#1 Yesterday I went to a Polish street festival. #2 I have not worn any footwear other than flip-flops on my feet in the past 6 weeks. #3 When I was younger I had black hair.

It always passes given enough time. All you need is an unwavering commitment to take back your life. We here have all walked in your shoes along the path you're on right now. We know there are challenges - lots of them but .... we also know you can get through them. It can get ugly at times but that's what builds your pride of accomplishment down the road. You know you have given all you have in exchange for your freedom! It's worth it - you deserve better than a smokey future

That's great NoNic! That's the way it's done in the early days, 1 min. & 1 crave at a time. Every craving your beat strengthens you and weakens that Nicodemon who is working against your better interests. Keep breathing through those craves

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Good job Diane! You seem to be right on track in this quitting thing. As others have said, time will work it's magic on getting you settled in and comfortable with your new, nonsmoking lifestyle. We all wish it was a quicker process but considering how long we conditioned ourselves as smokers, it shouldn't come as any surprise that it takes awhile to reprogram our brains. Just keep doing what you're doing and you'll be fine

#1 is the Lie!

Great decision NNC! Quitting is the best think you will ever do for yourself! Read all you can here and watch as many Joel videos as you can. Educating yourself about this addiction is one of the greatest tools you will have to lead you to freedom. Take it 1 minuet, one hour and one day at a time initially. Just pledge your NOPE every day (Not One Puff Ever). It s that simple (not easy but simple). You will have a legion of people here to support you and answer any questions you might have along the way. Let's get this done for good!

LOL - Having some supper - sorry. (Pig pallets and dinner scraps from the human's table). You're Up Jillar!! #1 (LIE) - No fear pf heights. Have sky dived twice in the days when you went on your own, not strapped to a seasoned jumper. Would have gone again but my chute was packed backwards on my second jump and I landed in a cow field a few miles away from the drop zone (Lots of cows in the field too!!) Cut my loses then and there. No more tempting fate by jumping out of a plane for me #2 - Yes, moved back into the parents house twice. Both time as I was making the transition from working in the USA and Canada. Not sure who it pissed of more ..... me or them? I expect them #3 - I managed the campaign for a candidate running in a municipal election for city councilor years ago and he did win! Turns out, he was not only a real A-hole but a heavy cocaine user to boot so we parted ways. He went on to even greater heights in Provincial politics later on.

1. I have extreme acrophobia (fear of heights). 2. I moved back home to my parents house twice for brief periods after leaving home originally. 3 I once managed a successful political campaign.

^^^ I'm a decent downhill skier but I tried snowboarding once using rental equipment. That stuff was returned within the hour. Almost broke my ass several times - that was it! Not for me

Yes! Living this for 2.5 years now. Many others longer. Excitement & disappointment at every turn. You never know what will happen but there's no better feeling then when you absolutely know someone has made it !

Thanks for all the valuable input fellow quitters I appreciate every comment. I'm still a bit on the fence about this but likely wom't bring it up if not in a perfect situation. I'll see how things go next time out and will let y'all know

#2 is the lie cuz snowboarding is were it's at these days. (and. it's the only one left?)

Guess it's best to keep my yap shut and wait until he inquires about it, if he does. Probably nothing to be gained by me initiating the conversation as I do agree that people have to want it for themselves and you can't provide them with that desire by preaching to them.

My answer is YES to all!

Geez! I wanted to pick that one as the lie because I figured those people were all done by like 1930 or so

I guess the reason I asked the question in the first place is what is embodied in your statement @Martian5: "they may have to learn on their own which most quitters have done". Yes, I eventually woke up eventually too but now wish I had years earlier. I guess it's in most of us to want to help others we care about with a wake-up call. That's why this is a tough one to give a "correct" answer to that will apply to the majority of people. I really do think this guy is heading down a road to somewhere I don't want to see him go & I just believe he will eventually regret not waking up sooner

My vote is .................... Jillar's running out of lies!!

Here's a link. Maybe this will help? https://uqr.me/qr-code-generator/blog/best-qr-code-readers/

@Sazerac, that's a great idea but the logistics of sending cards worldwide is an issue. It might have to be just a digital message that people can download to either their phone or to their printer to print out hard copies. I don't know how critical image sharpness for the QR codes is for reproduction on say an ink-jet printer.

Your response is interesting in a number of ways. I'm not sure I really understood the personal implications of smoking when I was a smoker. Oh sure, I knew all the statistics and had heard all the horror stories of what smoking had done to people but I was completely in denial I think. Not me - I'm special! Maybe - just maybe if someone I respected talked to me in a caring way about what their experience had been, before and after, then maybe I would have at least given it some thought? I agree, that talk would not have made me quit but start the thought process maybe? Maybe the approach next time is; "Hey Tom! Did you realize I quit smoking?" Then just see what the response is? Anyway, good food for thought.