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NOPE! The most ridiculous thing in the world is to tell someone not to cry, to get over it, build a bridge, toughen up, forget it, forgive, don’t be a baby, be the better person, be grateful.

Hi Ren, I know I'm late. I live in Australia and just woke up. I'm sorry you are going through this. I do understand. I have an autoimmune disease too and I had flares when I quit, lots of inflammation and joints locking up. It is really hard to deal with and I feel like people don't understand. I also had a very hard time at two months. I felt like I had the worst quitting related depression. I felt no joy at all!!! I'm sure my quit smoking counsellor thought I was nuts. I did get through it! The flare settled down and I eventually felt a lot better. I'm glad I didn't smoke because then that would have been one more thing to go through again. Also by the way I use AIP (Autoimmune protocol) to control the flares in my condition. You can google it if you are interested. My heart goes out to you. You are not alone.

Like most people quitting my first morning thought was to smoke. Instead of smoking I would log into the quit smoking website and Pledge NOPE just for that day. This I’m sure helped me not to obsess about having a smoke in the morning since it firmly set my intention in place. This has gone the same way for me morning after morning, month after month. Although this week I noticed I’m forgetting to Pledge first thing in the morning. I do usually log in at some point and Pledge but finally after so long I don’t wake up and think of smoking. This is no big deal to the average person but to a newbie it may be the ultimate victory. If we have any newbies thinking things will never get better, please believe they will given enough time. The trick is to just NOPE one day at a time until they do. As boring as that sounds.

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Well done on 18 months quit Diane.

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Great to see you travelling well lml. It does get easier. ?

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Well done Beazel. You sound a lot like me. Lots of practice at quitting (failed attempts), I smoked for many years and my Mum died of lung cancer too. I remember when she was dying I kept thinking I should quit smoking but I can't. We need the right support and education to quit and it is definitely doable. I appreciate seeing you here on the board.

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I had this happen a few times and it was disconcerting. It felt like it would never end. It eventually did end. It doesn’t matter what it’s called as long as you don’t listen to it. You are doing great. Do not fixate over whether you are obsessing or not. It’s not representative of how good your quit is. Your quit is good as long as you don’t smoke.

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I hope it goes well for you. I didn’t use champix. I used NRT for a lot longer than prescribed. I’d have preferred to not have used it at all but it did help to get me over the line. Look after your quit no matter what you decide.

Unfortunately she has to decide if she wants to stop. Addiction sucks doesn’t it? What’s important really is that you’ve stopped. You will be glad you did when you are older.

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Aww cute.

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Yep that’s so good to be reminded of.

You’re not alone in this battle and the way through is to talk about it. Keep us posted during this time. It helped me to check in when I had to fly which I was nervous about.