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Cheat brain is the worst!! I'm glad you stuck with it! Even one day is more than most still smokers...it will get easier and the constant thoughts do stop; I promise. Just keep redirecting your thoughts to NOPE. Take care of yourself and make time for breaks so you do not get overwhelmed.

Is there a Kmom? Kfriendwithbenefits? Drive out somewhere with an open sky and watch the sunset... Getting frisky is good cheap fun? One reward at my house was moving a 2nd tv to the living room so me and husband could co-op on xbox one games. I regret it to this day but I do love the time we spend together. Milk shakes? My motto is: "Try something new"

Congratulations on your decision to quut smoking for good! It's the best thing you could ever do for yourself! If you've been reading around here then you know I'm going to tell you to learn all you can about nicotine addiction; there is lots of good info pinned at the top of each board. These first few days are tricky, but do-able! Be prepared for "cravings" and down time associated with quitting--these pass but are hell on wheels the first week! Happy you are here!! And, if you get a chance pop by the celebrations board, it's the site creators 5 years smoke free party today and every one is invited!!

Yea! Kdad!! Remember to reward your hard work: fancy beer, new socks doesn't have to be something big but know you ARE worth it!

***Congrats MQ!! Thank you!***

Good morning! For me the easiest part was the "click" and understanding that everything I thought smoking was doing for me was a placebo effect caused by excited nicotine receptors anticipating my drug use. The dopamine dump at the first inhale is what most smokers are "craving" (If you remember, the rest of it tasted like butt) You have to get that dopamine from something else...so, REWARDS are the easiest part?

Please do not be hard on yourself because a quit will never work if it comes from a dark place. I live around a few cronic quitters and it seems defeating and exausting but...everyone makes their own choices, you know? You have to change your mindset and figure out what hole smoking is filling up for you. (Most smokers are trying to fill depression/ anxiety) and fill it in another way. You have to separate your quit from all of that. Your quit is your baby so no matter how you *feel*: you don't feed a baby cigarettes.

Looking good!! When's the party?

You just don't want to...smoke?? anymore? Of course you have emotions!! You are finally able to have feelings without numbing them, how exciting! 3 days, 3 weeks, and the 3 month mark are times in the quit when junkie thinking starts creeping in because you can "justify" quitting your quit at this point. "Oh, it hasn't even been a month yet?" "No one really cares if I quit." "Well, I can try again soon." These are lies, lies, lies that dying receptors will tell you so you will feed them drugs again. These moment make your quit...do you want it bad enough to fight for it? It's your life in the gamble.

I don't even know how you got this pic!! Man, I look GOOD in green!!

I'm sure before her next dr. appt she will try (in vain) to cover her stink and tell him she only smokes 2 a day? That's crazy!! I would have never thought?!

Trust me, you will know what it feels like!! There is something, maybe something here, in Allan Carr videos, on google, a mantra...something will click @christine 12 and it will be your "ta-da" moment. Mine was a very wise man on a quit smoking forum told me the "only way I'd ever quit smoking is to stop putting cigarettes in my mouth" --duh. You just keep trying. What is smoking doing for you? Education is important because the only answer is killing you.

Comitting

If our paths actually crossed outside I might have told her(kind of jokingly because that's how I am) something like "Hey, if you really want to quit you have to stop putting them in your mouth" (inset smoking motion) she might laugh so it would open the door to telling her I quit and maybe she would be receptive (or not.) I'm sure in the hospital LOTS of very important people told her to quit but maybe it would take a stranger caring enough to say so to click for her. I remember being a smoke and that "I don't give a shixx" attitude so maybe she wouldn't have cared at all, ya know?

I think so too! Receptors have to wait for the subconscious to attack. Take a minute to really enjoy your quit today Albert! You are working hard for it!

Does anyone still know the guy that does that thing with his horse??? You know, for the after party?

Be still my beating heart!! It already sounds wonderful, Parsley! Get some rest and glad you made it home safe.

Soooo, how was it? Tell me more, tell me more so I can vacation vicariously thru you?

How's the quit going @time4change?? Remember cravings are not commands! Hope all is well

Welcome Pumpkin!! Anyone who smokes is ALWAYS in the "perfect" or even the "right" place in there life to quit! Why waste even another second sucking on butts? There is so much more in life to do!! You have to commit to your quit!

Oh yes, they come prepared!

Let me get these guys occupied or we'll never get anyting done One to a window should do it!

I watched a wonderful man wither away. He went from working on big rigs to needing a mobility scooter...not easy for a man like him. After he was diagnosed COPD/CHF, man...he went downhill fast. He turned into a beef jerky version of himself...like the all the life had just been sucked out of him and left him begging a tank for air. He still smoked tho. Colon cancer, leukaemia, nicotine addict. Took almost 3 days for his body to drown him to death. His family by his side (well, when it wasn't THEIR turn to go smoke because YOU just had one!!)...you could smell that room from the entrance. All the while he's dying, (before they finally put him in a medically induced coma) he'd pretend to be asleep...then he'd peep open an eye and yell at everyone "Go the fxxx home!" "I hate y'all crybabies" and of course "gimme a smoke" "I DONT CARE WHAT THEY SAY!!" Did I mention this was all very hard on a man like him? His wife (God, I love this woman)...beautiful, red haired, angel of a woman; by his side 60yrs...he tells her "Get your axx outta here, You still ain't worth nothin." She sat there 3 days with this...didn't ask one bit of help because (let's be honest) she didn't know how. She said the most relieve she felt is when the monitors went flat...She said he snored heavily and she knew that was his last breath, and in that moment the weight of the world was finally off her shoulders. She had taken care of him for years leading up to his death. Not a wife, a companion, a friend, a lover, none of the things you think of when you look at your spouse on your wedding day. She gave him pills, baths, fed him, lifted him, she was his chemo chamber-pot maid... The last time I went by, she had already cleaned out the dark den (where he would spend most of the day watching tv and smoking) and was in the process of cleaning up the 2nd bedroom they had converted into a medical suite for him. She had even dyed her hair, which made my heart smile because she is totally worth it Smoking doesn't only ruin the smoker's life...think about the people that love you.

I'm gonna get started with decorations