Rosewothorne

Congratulations, Deanna! Love your positive attitude!!!

It's still a NOPE for me!

NOPE!

WOW!! I'm totally--and not fashionably--late to my party! I can't believe it's been six months. That feels really substantial. Thank you all for the kind thoughts. I don't get on board the train as much lately but I'm so totally grateful to all of you and this site. I NOPE in my head daily if not on here. My quit is going well and it's both a blessing to have forgotten my quitversary and a reminder that i must take care of my quit and not take it for granted. There are so many times when I think briefly about smoking or some habit like leaving the house and thinking, "I forgot my cigarettes." Those thoughts pass easily now but I know it's possible that one day I could let my guard down and think it might be OK to "have just one" and that would be devastating. So I am remaining vigilant and reminding myself that Not One Puff Ever is a verb not a noun. I told my daughter about how I still think sometimes about smoking and she said that's OK as long as i dont' do it. True. It's also OK if i have those thoughts, maybe for the rest of my life...as long as I don't smoke. I am LOVING this quit.

NOPE!!!

It's still a NOPE for me!!!

NOPE!

NOPE!

NOPE!!! Still noping on this solemn anniversary for the world, but also my very personal 25-year wedding anniversary today!! It's a good day to NOPE!!!

Yay!!! Five months. Thank you all!! I took off a week on vacation and just celebrated that way. A bit of sadness is that my son smokes now (he is 22)...not much but enough that I cautioned him that when I was his age I too smoked less than five cigarettes a day but that led to 30 years of smoking twice to four times that much every day... I try to encourage him to quit but as we all know well that decision has to come from within. Thanks again and while I've been absent I did make one referral to the quit train - my neighbor who recently quit. I hope we find him on here soon.

NOPE!!!

NOPE!!!

NOPE!!!

Last week I had jury duty. During deliberations you are locked in a room for 8+ hours with 11 other strangers known to you as numbers. During lunch one day when everyone was quiet, I said, "I'm really glad I quit smoking several months ago because I would be jumping out of my skin by now jonesing for a cigarette and wanting out of here bad. It's good for me, but maybe bad for you all because I'm going to continue to argue with you!"