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Keep a list of all the reasons you want to quit close to you all the time Lilly. On your phone or written on paper so you can pull that out and read them any time you have a smoking thought. Focusing on all the positives your are gaining by quitting and knowing that the only reason you don't already have those things is because of smoking might just help you readjust your thinking more quickly. See the positives - not the negatives

Hi Jeana and welcome to Quit Train Glad to hear you have decided to take back your life by quitting this horrible addiction. The benefits you will receive from doing this are more than you imagine at this point. Read all you can about this addiction here. There are many resources including a series of videos on a separate page. Stick close to the board and let us know how you're doing as well as any concerns you might have with quit challenges you might be having. We have ALL been through it and can maybe give you some good suggestions for meeting those early challenges.. We will support you all the way to freedom!

Muttering NOPE all day long is probably the best thing you can do in the early days of your quit

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Glad to see you are back at it and ready to make this your permanent quit. You will never regret it - I promise you.

Have a great one Abby!!

So take the bull by the horns and go do something that would have been completely foreign and unexpected for you in your former "smokers life". I did that when going through a significant life change many years ago. Go shake things up cuz no one else is gonna do it for ya It will make you feel alive again!

Go with your gut feeling on this one. Long as neither one of you hate the song, it won't matter in the grand scheme of things. Just one moment in an awesome and sometimes mind numbing day I still remember the song we had and if I had to pick it over again, I'd likely pick something different but at the same time, we have no regrets. It was an appropriate pick at that time for us.

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Congratulations on your 5th anniversary being smoke free Marti! Hope you get a chance to celebrate today

Right. Wasn't it about this time last year when QSMB went down? Beware the Ides of March! Et tu Brute?

I'm good to go.

Hi DizzyD 1st of all, congrats on being 8 days smoke free. That's fabulous! And welcome to Quit Train. Glad you decided to join us here. Support is a surprisingly powerful component to quitting as most of us have found out here so stick around and participate often. Ask questions, read all the material you can here. Education about this addiction is key to beating it. Know your enemy! You will get lots of great advise over the next day or so from the good people here. I'll start it off by saying just take it 1 day at a time for now in the early days. Each day promise yourself that you won't smoke for just today. Then repeat that every day. Setting small goals make them easier to achieve. We have a daily NOPE pledge page here on the site. You may find pledging your daily pledge not to smoke useful by posting there daily.NOPE stands for Not One Puff Ever. Glad to see you on board the train. Next stop is Freedom! Enjoy the ride

There comes a moment in each of our quits when through whatever process we have gone through individually we just finally get it! This is your moment Abby! You have arrived at your permanent quit

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