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Congratulations @Jordan7 on eight years quit! And thank you for sticking around and paying it forward i hope you have a great day today!

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@Brioski, you should consider making yourself a ticker for your signature. There's a tab at the top of the page to click on and make one. You'll be able to watch the time, .money saved and cigarettes NOT smoked since you quit. I loved seeing mind each morning when I logged on that whole first year. Super inspirational

Hey @Molly2310 and @Brioski, I was years quit when my beloved car got t-boned and totaled by a red light runner in February 2019, I lost my mom in November 2019, had respiratory failure and came home on oxygen in January 2020, my baby girl Cookie died in October of 2021 of pancreatitis at 15 years old, best dog ever. Then my California mom died in May of 2022. Oh and my husband of twenty years decided he no longer wanted to be married! Let me tell you both one thing, I never wanted a cigarette EXCEPT when my real mom died and I brought out my JAC (jillars air cigarette) and had my fill of air. That's alll I needed to get rid of that crave. If you can even call it that. More like an itch that wanted a quick scratch. Bad things are going to happen and the farther into your quit you are you will see how much easier things will be for you to get past without smoking.... You guys are doing AWESOME!

Welcome back @Brioski and congratulations on day 3. I loved smoking too but knew I needed to quit. I thought about it as all good(?!) things must come to an end and then would think about the things I don't do anymore like riding dirt bikes or amusement rides or smoking.....

Geez @Kate18, sorry I messed that up! I changed it so thanks for letting us know.

7. Make a sand castle

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Congratulations @Kate18 on your second year quit! What a great gift you've given yourself, I hope you celebrate

5. Make a zen garden

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Congratulations @darcy on your first month smoke free! What a huge accomplishment, you should be so proud of yourself I hope you treat yourself to something special today because you've earned it!

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2. Make a beach

d2e8b8 3579 Quit Date: Oct 17, 2016 Posted December 15 I recall a post explaining triggers which I'll try to paraphrase in case it helps someone as much as it helped me. There are 3 kinds of triggers - - Daily triggers. These happen daily e.g. coffee, lunch, in the car driving to work, returning from work, etc. When we quit smoking, these are the triggers that we tackle first and overcome within the first few days. Having overcome these, we start to feel confident ...not realizing there are other triggers waiting to trip us. - Occasional triggers. As the name suggests, they happen occasionally e.g. vacation - drive, flight, visiting family or friends, social activities like bar, dance etc. Generally, these are events that happen a few times a year but not daily. These are dangerous because they surprise us just as we're feeling confident. If we're not prepared, we can lose the quit to these occasional triggers even after staying quit 3,4 or 6 months. - Life event triggers. These only happen a few times in our lives e.g. losing a job or a loved one or a break up. Again, smoking doesn't help with anything but the trigger catches us at a moment when we are vulnerable and may not be acting rationally and can result in losing a quit. For me, it helped to understand the concept ahead of time - that after overcoming the initial daily triggers, there will come other triggers and they will tend to catch you by surprise and unprepared. A bit of thinking and preparing ahead of time helped so that when the time came, it was possible to fight and kill the trigger. It's all in the head after all and I had my own game that I played in the head to kill triggers. I visualized hitting the trigger with a hammer and shouting "Die trigger die". A couple of times I may have shouted aloud getting a few strange stares ... but it worked ... and that's all that matters. Link to original post: https://www.quittrain.com/blogs/entry/1105-thoughts-on-triggers/

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If you'd like another awesome tool, we have quit tickers for your signature. You can watch all the time, money and cigarettes NOT smoked since you quit!

Yay to being almost done with hell week @Molly2310, you should be so proud of yourself Glad the NOPE/NOPT thread is working for you too. My fellow 2016 Buttkickers and I use to race to see who could NOPE first after cbdave posted it lol. It was a lot of fun and further commitment to keep it so we could post there

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Yay @Molly2310 glad you're having a good day And look at you already almost a month quit @darcy, well done

9. Use them for candle making

Ouch @Sirius, yay for quitting! Hope your leg feels better soon!

Hey @Molly2310, yes that does make sense. We've all been there, that's part of the magic of this place. As you go through your day you deal with a lot of triggers, or times you would grab a smoke, and those need to be dealt with one by one. That's why we recommend taking the One Year Pledge that's pinned to the top.We feel that a year gets you through most of the triggers you will have to deal with and we want to help you if you need support. Your addiction is throwing a complete tantrum right now and wants its fix. You just stand your ground and don't give in because with each trigger you go through it'll be easier the next time.