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Hi Kellemae! Welcome to the Quit Train. Quitting smoking is the best thing you can possibly do for yourself and your future. You have already heard from a couple of our members here with multi year quits going so you see, it really can be done. I am still pretty new to this quitting thing but I now know that I will make it to being permanently quit. Yes, for most of us, it's hard initially but it does get easier the more time you put into your quit without smoking. That's the key. Once you stop it's Not One Puff Ever! That's the NOPE pledge. One puff and you are right back to the start again. It becomes a never ending loop of you feeding your addiction. You said it yourself. You break down and buy some smokes then go through the whole process again. You have to just stop period and put up with the early withdrawal symptoms. It will get better and it won't kill you. Continuing to smoke just might some day. The whole process is very simple. You have to want to quit more than you want to smoke. Easy to say, tough to do but so worth it. Coming here for support is another key to being successful and read, read, read all you can about this addiction because education is key as well. A ton of Videos available here as well. Make your decision and never look back! Freedom from this addiction is yours if you want it :)

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Hey! Thanks Guys & Gals!! Appreciate your well wishes. For all you other newbies here (yes, I still consider myself a newbie for now), you always wonder what it's like being 2 months, three months or whatever free of smoking well, here's where things stand for me at the moment. Month 4 was not remarkably different from month 3 for me. A little smoother I guess but no huge change that I can point a finger to. Month 1 for me was a real challenge for most of that month anyway and in particular week 1 was just horrible!! Month 2 was up and down and I never knew on waking up in the morning what I was going to get - good or bad - lol. Things smoothed out quite a bit in month 3 for me and has been that way ever since. There is still some progression but it's almost imperceptible because it is a very slow progression but quite easy to deal with now because any thoughts of smoking are so much easier to deal with now. They are not as intense and much easier to just distract your mind to something else until you just forget about whatever thought you were having. I feel I'm sort of at a halfway point now. I still have thoughts of smoking and still have a craving to smoke at times, although it's a lot weaker than what it was in prior months. But when I really think about smoking I remember the way it would tighten up my lungs and how I would have that constant annoying smokers cough and the heavy taste of smoke in my mouth and I think -Yuk! I don't want to smoke! I actually really don't want to smoke. So that's why I figure I'm half way. Half way between wanting to smoke and not wanting to smoke. Kind of looking forward to see where I'm at by 6 months actually. I think I should be in pretty good shape by then. Sorry for the long-winder post but I thought some others with only a week or 2 or 3 in might be interested in my journey so far :)

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Hi ish! I saw you posting in the Nope thread yesterday and today. Keep doing that each and every day. It's important to commit to yourself every day that you will not take another puff from a cigarette - ever. There are so many benefits when you really commit to quitting and there are no good reasons to continue to smoke. Smoking is just an endless loop of feeding your addiction to nicotine and serves no other purpose for you. The craving or urge to smoke will be with you for a while just because smoking is ingrained into almost everything you do daily. Only takes a few days for nicotine to be out of your body but it takes longer to reprogram your mind to not look to smoking as a stress reliever, a reward system for good and bad events in your life. The process is unfortunately slower than we would all like but I promise you it does happen for everyone providing you do not smoke. That's the key to it all - just don't smoke. It takes guts and will power to quit but it is totally possible. As Boo said, you need to do this for yourself though, not someone else.

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