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Manage your quit in whatever way you feel is best for you. You don't need to conform to anyone else in terms of how you quit - just make sure YOU DO quit! If that means using patches or whatever other support methods then use those methods. Just never put another cigarette in your mouth and light it! Not 1 Puff Ever!! That is the only way through this journey to come out the other side successfully. And it IS possible as there are many people here on this site with impressive quits to tell the newer people that it can be done. We are no different one person to another - we all struggle in our own ways to break free of this addiction but you need to be prepared to do the heavy lifting when it comes right down to it. We can support you but we can\t quit for you. You need to do that for yourself.

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-16 Oh NOOOOO....................

He's around - mostly in the NOPE thread - each and every day!! He's from across the pond where Doreen lives so he is probably now actually officially 1 year quit as of now in terms of his time there but; we'll wait until he at least wakes up to shower him with the accolades he has earned by his hard work and dedication to quitting :)

Thank you all again - love you guys and my smoke free life!

YES :D

-11 ......................... it's not starting out very well (for the sticks anyway).

NOPE!

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Hey thanks my favorite quit buddies :) I have been looking forward to this 1/2 year mark as a pretty major milestone in my quit journey. Next one I have my eye on now is the 1 year anniversary! I want to thank all of you on this board for the wealth of information that I've been able to use to my advantage in helping me quit and stay quit. I feel pretty solid in my quit now but still have a healthy respect for what this addiction is and what will happen if I do anything stupid. I want to keep that in mind always so I can remain quit for life because, as all you that went before me always said in the early part of my quit; "it will get easier if you just push forward and don't smoke" and guess what ........ it did! It's easy to manage now and will get even better in the next 6 months too I expect. Why would I ever throw that all away?

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I'll drink to that!

I quit cold turkey right from the start pretty much and now glad I did! Get that Nicotine out of your system asap then focus on the physiological part of quitting which is the longer term effort. Doing it in reverse seems counterintuitive to me.

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Not telling :P

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Haha .... Stewie calls everyone "lad". Male, female, even aliens!

Let's get started anyway :P

Hello :) You were before my time but I have seen you around occasionally and congrats on being almost 5 years smoke free - that's awesome. You are correct in what you say about being part of a support group. It's a key tool in helping build a solid quit. Something I never even thought of when I first quit so I'm certainly glad to have stumbled across this site in the early days of my own quit:)

4 Good Friday Morning :)