Ramona

I'm so sorry to hear this - sucks. Hopefully she'll change her mind soon.

MFIC - I think I had no idea how much nicotine I was taking in and I just overdid it.

Thanks for popping back in to show us how it worked for you!! I can't wait to forget I ever smoked...so excited for my new identity to solidify. Rock on RF!

I thought I had already posted on this thread - guess not. So congrats - super late. Better late than never.

Food is going to taste soooooooooooooooooooooooooo good for you - - very soon. DELICIOUS. You can eat it in your sleepless state. It will still be amazing.

One year is a beautiful quit. I think the following years will be easier and more beautiful with every day. Stay strong and don't throw this away. You quit for a reason all those weeks and days ago!!! You quit for a million reasons even... Remember what has improved - EVERYTHING. Remember what used to suck about smoking - EVERYTHING. You will prevail. Looking forward to your celebration on this forum! It's coming up soon.

Vaping freaks me out!!! I did it for one day and had a full-blown anxiety attack! I got into a verbal dispute with a woman at work and almost got fired. My heart felt like it was about to explode. The e-cigg messed with both my body and my mind...BIG TIME.

Go you! Go! You can do it.

Wait! I'm not wobbling...just trying to sound like a turkey.

Wobble, wobble. Wobble, wobble.

What a great quit! And a beautiful name!!! I want to bike around New Zealand next year - with my saved cigarette money!!! I may ask you for some advice when the time approaches. Until then - - - - - GUARD THE QUIT. Well done.

That would take me 13. Hrmmmm.

Non-smoker. Sounds good to me! Ex-smoker also sounds good. Or: smoker who just doesn't smoke anymore. Identify as you will...just as long as you NTAP!

Recently I attended the funeral services of my boyfriend's 56 year old uncle. He died from esophageal cancer (he was a smoker his whole life). Let me tell you - 56 years old does not look old!!! In many ways he was in the very prime of his life: he has(d) a son and daughter about to get married and maybe have babies, he was soon to retire from the force, he was poised for vacations to sunny places. Now he will never see any of this. Two decades were stolen from him. Two decades were stolen from his family. In fact, smoking has killed quite a few members of my BF's family. It's in his genes BIG TIME - both the addiction and the diseases. We started smoking together when we were 15 years old. Now we're quitting together at age 32. He keeps trying to justify a relapse by saying things like, "We still have 3 more years in us - all these articles say we're safe as long as we do it by 35." What a load of BS. He's been quit for 2.5 months and he's driving me BONKERS. Talk about romancing the cigg!!! But as of right now - we are young, healthy non-smokers. I need to be grateful for RIGHT NOW because it's just so amazing to experience this transformation with a partner. The improved & enhanced intimacy is remarkable. He doesn't realize how he's already become calmer, more present and more confident. Yes, our arguments are also enhanced and his whining is sometimes hard to endure but this will all be worth it if I get to grow old (really old) beside him.

Read up!!!! Lots of stuff to learn about this bloody addiction.

Thanks for the support! Almost put a hole in the wall yesterday. But didn't smoke!! My hand hurts a bit. But thanks to this forum I realize that punching a wall is a perfectly appropriate response. ;)

Check, check and check. Recently I've experienced an amplified version of all these negative mechanisms. It's as if smoking held 'em back where they were left to fester, contort, brew, and multiply inside my psyche. Yikes. They seem big and fast and persistent and strong. So yes, it has been a rough week or so. Work, relationships, teeth, groups. A lot, lot, lot of crying. I've been exercising, meditating, praying. Smoking will not cure these ills. Smoking created these ills. Please don't let me forget that. And thank you all for being here.

I like what Babs said. Yes, you'll deal with bad days. But you already have a better overall life.

I paid for my first fillings in life. That was awesome.

I just had a new friend come over for a walk after work. This made me consider a cigarette for a couple minutes. Considering cigarettes feels weird sometimes. Here is a situation where I would have smoked in the past. She smokes - so it would have been a bonding thing. And I haven't faced that trigger - so I faced it. No problemo!!!! Turned out great. She was really sweet and didn't smoke during our nearly 2 hour walk. We smelled the flowering trees and someone was doing their laundry. I'm glad I didn't have smoke mucking up my senses. :) Was a nice 6 months today!

Well, half a year in the bag. Thanks for all the wisdom and support here.

Sounds like it's transpiring quite smoothly!!! Nice. And congrats!!

7. That's the lucky one, right? :) Well done.

Yeah, don't just leave. Stick with this until you're SECURE and solid. You'll need it. And others will need you.