To NOPE or not to NOPE

[Cbdave]

G’day

I’m cbdave and more often that not I get to raise the NOPE pledge of a morning. Being close to the international date line and living on the east coast of Australia means that I get to see the new day a lot earlier than most.

If I’m off fishing it can be really early as I hate my phone smelling of fish bait.

It wasn’t always that way. I never posted a NOPE on the QSMB board in those first months. I thought it was a tad daggy. Couldn’t see the sense in it, if I smoked it was my fault it wasn’t needed to keep me honest.

Had a bit of a rethink about the three month mark as I had two quit killers coming up.

First a wedding with old friends who smoked and drinks... normally a recipes for smoking if every there was.

On my return a biopsy for cancer. Sobering.

So I started to post to keep myself in touch with the board and more importantly as an acknowledgement that Yes I was really an Addict. It really hit home that I needed to fess I that I was only a puff away from going back to that standard 20 cigs a day!

 So that’s me, now a diferent board ....but still taking the time to acknowledge the addict in me.... if only once a day. 

So pledge or don’t pledge but never forget what it stands for 

Not One Puff Ever

Chris

Edited February 4, 2019 by Cbdave

[Reciprocity]

I was more religious about pledging daily the first year or so because it just helped me focus for a moment on what the most important thing was that I had to do, or not do in this case. It worked for me.

[Sazerac]

I lurked for the first 10 months of my quit but, committed to NOPE.

It was a big part of tearing down my denial and admitting I was an addict.

I would holler, NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE ! and FREE YOUR HEAD !

over and over and over.

 

When I joined, I jumped right in with the NOPE

and have only taken a few hiatus' from it.

There is a bonding, a feeling of camaraderie with everybody,  also often great eye candy optics ! 

Throwing the 'likes' around is a nice heads up, 'I'm glad you quit' hit of support for quits of any duration.

 

I love seeing 'tomorrow'  today what with the time differential, @Cbdave

It is always good to know that 'tomorrow' arrived intact

and brings this song to mind,

 

Edited February 4, 2019 by Sazerac

[notsmokinjo]

I am a junky... and a superstitious one at that...I seem to bounce from one addiction to another... so when I first joined QSMB I did not nope... ever.... there was no way I could pledge NOPE... not one puff ever... I mean I wasn't sure if I was going to last another day let alone forever.... how could I pledge I would take not one puff ever... I think I typed a nope for about 3 weeks before I actually posted one.. and then someone said... I pledge NOPE for today... and I thought, hey I can do that... I can make that pledge... and pretty quick I needed to make that pledge, and I needed to like everyones NOPE ... to acknowledge their pledge had been seen, to let them know they weren't alone... and then my NOPES got bigger and more elaborate and it became so I had to nope that way... It had to be a statement... or it was bad luck, or I would have a tough quit day... and then I became obsessed with it and then some people expressed the fact they didn't like my NOPEs and I became paranoid and the hour it took to prepare them became an hour and a half or two hours because I would panic something I wanted to type would be taken the wrong way or be construed as racism or a million other things it wasn't and offend someone ... it became my new addiction something I had to do or my skin crawled but something that was damaging me to do so I had to break that habit... so now I Nope occasionally... because when it got to the point I was spending an hour a day researching a preparing a NOPE and getting anxiety if I couldn't get it just right I needed to step back. I still say each morning... NOPE I will not smoke today... and finish each day with NOPE, today I did not smoke... I just can't "NOPE" every day because I have issues.

Edited February 4, 2019 by notsmokinjo

[Doreensfree]

My NOPE was very important to me .....early in my quit ...I knew if I pledged a promise to myself and the board ,I wouldn't smoke that day ...

As time went on ...I was so proud  I rid myself of this terrible addiction after smoking over 5 decades.. I was proud to say NOPE.....

Being part of a group...a team....meant alot to me ....

I still pledge now and again ...

I love watching the fun folks get out of it ....ya ...NOPING is powerful....a great tool to have ....

[Sazerac]

I love your NOPE's, @notsmokinjo

It is amazing to me how much work you put into them and I appreciate the content and the time spent.

NOPE-ly yours,

S

[Doreensfree]

20 minutes ago, Sazerac said:

I love your NOPE's, @notsmokinjo

It is amazing to me how much work you put into them and I appreciate the content and the time spent.

NOPE-ly yours,

S

Oh !!!!....I agree...

I found myself wondering what was going to be said on that day ...full of information..... Thank you for taking the time .....

I actually learned alot ....

[Mee]

2 hours ago, Sazerac said:

love your NOPE's, @notsmokinjo

It is amazing to me how much work you put into them and I appreciate the content and the time spent.

NOPE-ly yours,

I also like your Nopes.  I think you are a walking encyclopedia!  You really get that brain stimulated and come up with things I would have never thought of.

 

As far as my Nope, it is very important to me.  It is the last thing I do at night and the first thing I check in the morning so I can "like" all the other nopes.  It kind of feels like my group hug.

All those successful quitters standing by me and letting me know they are right there with me.  

[Cbdave]

G’day

Well I think I got the answers  that I was expecting..... varied. Seems we are all a bit diferent on what NOPE means to us.

As long as we all get the thing we all want.... freedom from the smokes...

C