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Yes! Pledging your NOPE to not only yourself but to others as well helps keep you focused each day and ..... that's all you need to worry about - today! Tomorrow and the day after will come regardless. Don't worry about them until they are here

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Getting extremely agitated on long flights and needing to run to the nearest exit as soon as I landed. You'd better not be in my way as I bolted for the exit

Welcome and good for you! Knowing what was your undoing last time is key to making this one life long. If you quit before you know the drill so let's get this done! Joining a group like this is surprisingly helpful, as I found out a little over a year ago. Participate often and educate yourself about this addiction. Quitting with patches is fine if it works for you. The only rule in this quitting process is to never take another puff; which you have already identified. Welcome aboard. Be sure to post up your NOPE every day on the NOPE page!

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There are so many small benefits to quitting that we don't even think about until we are well along in our quit process. Great that you are focusing on the positives Those positives just keep multiplying along the way too!

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The cost (financially) to smoke these days is crazy! How can people in Australia even afford to smoke?

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Sorry you're not sleeping well. It's not unusual in the early days of your quit. Have you eliminated caffeine from your diet? If not try that, it may help. Drink fruit juice too, It helps with your blood sugar levels which may help your sleep pattern. In any case, the sleep issue won;t last forever. Quitting smoking is worth dealing with some temporary inconveniences

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8 Months smoke free is fantastic Kermit! Be sure to celebrate your achievement

Be patient LT You're not quite a month into your quit yet so those cravings and urges to smoke are normal and you found a way to say NO to them today as you have in the past and will again when they come calling. The thing is, they will come calling less frequently and those calls will get weaker and weaker as you forge ahead. Doing great so just keep it up and always say NOPE!

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I remember starting to smoke when I was 17 with a friend of mine. We both started because it was the cool thing to do I guess. We were also going to run away from home together and go to Florida and live under a pier by the ocean. (That never happened of course)! But we both became addicted together when still in high school. I blame no one but myself for getting hooked. I know big tobacco has had some pretty aggressive marketing tactics going on but we all wanted to smoke for other reasons regardless of what big tobacco was telling us. It's much better now for the younger people coming along because society in general looks down on smoking almost everywhere. That's a huge factor I think.

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