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I bought a battery backup system for my PC. Lol

1 year 6 months

Well it’s been 1.5 months cigarette FREE! I hope everyone here is doing ok and staying smoke free.

Thanks so much all!

Lido deck here I come!

Thanks for the encouragement. I don’t feel deprived or that I am missing anything. Not using willpower to quit. Mostly. I think of smoking as a vague memory.

Have my sites on the lido deck!

Still going strong.

NOPE. Stick to a personal commitment you made the day you quit to never take another puff.

Thanks everyone. Next stop, 1 year!

Half a year smoke free everyone!

Has anyone else watched all or close to all of Joel’s videos? They seem to give me strange comfort. It’s like a pep talk by the coach.

Thanks for all the support!

6 months smoke free! Still going. You know I first was on this board in 2018. Time does go by fast.

Just checking in. 4.5 months. I have been using the forum on Smokefree. Pretty active

3.5 months quit. I have been using the Smoke Free forum. Nice little community. I send people here when I can. Also Joel’s videos are something I recommend.

Thanks for the support. Still smoke free!

This is my forever quit!

I will never smoke again! No matter what the statistics are. I just am doing a deep dive into the topic. I have watched all the videos here many times. Also have seen all the Joel videos, YouTube etc.. The hard look at smoking has made this quit different. Thanks for all the advice.

Still quit. Hardly any cravings.

Nope

Nope

So true!

Hey guys Was wondering if anyone knows the success rate for cold turkey quitting? I’ve seen 7% up to some portion of 50%. I’m confused.

Still no smoking! Been over a month. I have been chewing plain sugar free gum though. Plan is to stop that at some point. I feel that this is a new quit still so I am cobbling together all kinds of ideas into a quit smoking philosophy of sorts. I came across a video for the CBQ method. It states that willpower won’t work in the long term. We need to no longer DESIRE cigarettes. What do you guys think? Joel says we always want a cigarette for long term nonsmokers, is he right?