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I'm new here and I am so glad I found you guys. I have actually quit smoking on Feb 18, 2015 and today is supposed to be my last day of hell week. I have quit before but never made it to the end of hell week. Last night, I almost broke down and went to the store for cigarettes. It just seems like each day it's getting worse not better. It is especially hard when I eat or drink anything! Sometimes, I feel in order to keep this quit, I have to give up eating because its hard for the most part, but after eating or drinking anything, not just coffee but even juice or water, it becomes almost impossible. The only reason I didn't go buy them is because I knew if I did, I would have smoked the whole pack. But, I'm just at the point right now that I don't know how much longer I can hold on. I think it was meant for me to come across this site just in the nick of time!

 

Michelle

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Hi Michelle!!!!  So glad you found your way here...the same exact thing happened to me too...I felt good and empowered for a few days...and then I felt myself questioning my strength and ability to keep at it.  So, I did a google search for support...and I am well over 2.5 years quit!

 

There is so much support here and educational material to help you...to give you tools to help you succeed in staying away from those nasty cancer sticks for good....and be happier than you ever imagined as a non smoker.  You're gonna love it!!

 

Welcome to the quit train!!!!

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Hi Michelle and welcome to the train :)

 

I used to chew gum after a meal and go for a walk when possible, just changing the routine seemed to help, keep moving as just sitting makes you feel the void.

 

congratulations on your first week, read all there is on the board in the quit smoking section to educate yourself on nicotine addiction, the videos are great too, keep posting and maybe try the games in social section as a distraction.

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Welcome Michelle and congrats on getting trough Hell Week - you made it through a grueling week - the rest will just get easier and easier.

There is an incredible amount of support and info on here as well as a some fun and great distractions. Stay focused and positive and you will succeed.

If you haven't found it yet the Forum tab will get you to most of the places you need to go. There is a Daily NOPE (Not One Puff Ever) Pledge on the board to keep that reminder in your mind each day. Sometimes simple is the most effective. Get involved in the games and post as much as you like we are here for support the rest is up to you.  The people here changed my life and I am not sure if I would have been able to become a non-smoker so easily without the QT Family after 25 years of being a pack a day smoker - you can do it - no regrets, no looking back you are now a non-smoker (not a quitter)

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Welcome, Michelle!  So glad you found us...you will find lots of support here, and some fun, as well.  If you would like a quit meter like many of us have in our signatures, instructions are here.  Congratulations on your decision to quit...just remember Not One Puff Ever  (NOPE)!

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Welcome!!  Indeed this is a valuable site for everyone.  At the start, the best we can do is manage the craves and triggers..keep pushing through!!  Some things that help me after meals...drink water with lemon, brush my teeth, chew gum, clean out a drawer or a shelf, come here and play a game.  It's really important to read read read and watch the videos.  Quitting is more than not smoking, yet it's not.  Glad you're here.

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Thanks guys! I am so glad that I found a place that I could come to for support. I really think that maybe this time I can do it, but there is just so much about quitting that I really didn't know. I have read Allen Carr's book and was psyched, but then the withdrawals started to hurt too bad. I believe that this is the time I'm really going to have to make this happen.

 

Michelle

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"withdrawals started to hurt too bad"  ... or just sucked?  The suck does not last for too long...embrace the suck.... the payoff is awesomeness.

 

Welcome and congrats on your quit.  

 

Smoking is no longer an option... get your mind right.

 

As far as the eating or drinking issue... for sure...it sucks.  But everytime you beat that crave/trigger.. it gets less powerful.  Before long...it will not even enter your mind.

 

Keep on keepin on.

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Hi and welcome aboard.....

Congrats on your great decision to quit.....

Read all you can,and then some...I believe education is the key to suceed....

When you are armed with all the knowledge ,you can win your battles....

Stay close to the board....posting often....you have all the support here

I agree doing a daily nope is a good start to the day ...to promise yourself for the next 24 hours you won't smoke....

Glad your here...you can do it....

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Welcome to the QT Michelle!  It's very hard at times in the beginning of the journey but it is so worth it! 

 

Use the forum and anything else you can think of to distract yourself when you have weak moments.  I know for me, I made a promise that I would not smoke no matter how bad it got and I stuck to it.  There were times I could barely get out of bed, but i kept moving forward.   You have to go through some discomfort to get to the other side but I can promise you that it gets so much better! 

 

You're going to love it here! 

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Hey Michelle and welcome.

 

You feel jittery and really uneasy.  It feels hard and youkeep thinking about smoking when you don't want to smoke... and stop, just breath it out for a minute. You are a non smoker today, non smokers don't smoke cigarettes. So what you need is a new plan. Maybe write a list of things you can do when a "trigger" hits you. Clean work surfaces. Suck air through a straw. Click your fingers. Jump from foot to foot shouting (or thinking) nope. Google some facts on something that interested you once but you never got round too. Etc etc. Basically you are focusing on the not smoking my lovely, maybe try just distracting your brain until the feeling gets less intense.

 

If a trigger is a thought process of "I would have smoked here" then a newer thought of "but now I clean" can replace it quicker than getting cosy with a sad nostalgic feeling because that is not a true reflection of what you want. You quit because you don't want to smoke :)  Write a list of reasons you quit, carry it with you and read it before you go shopping. 

 

One week is amazing work Michelle, congrats on your freedom.

 

x

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Smoking is no longer an option... get your mind right.

 

.... everytime you beat that crave/trigger.. it gets less powerful.  Before long...it will not even enter your mind.

 

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  

read it, believe it

 

You are NOT weaker than the rest of us.  Your craves are not stronger.  Others have quit.  WE CAN TOO!!  Let's get this done and be free from the crazy.

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Welcome Michelle! I am a Newbie as well and I am so grateful to have found this site. The people here are awesome and truly interested in helping Newbies or Anyone in need. Trust me, you can do it! Each week brings it's challenges but it IS getting easier. Stay on the Board is great advice! You CAN and WILL do this! :)

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Welcome!!  Indeed this is a valuable site for everyone.  At the start, the best we can do is manage the craves and triggers..keep pushing through!!  Some things that help me after meals...drink water with lemon, brush my teeth, chew gum, clean out a drawer or a shelf, come here and play a game.  It's really important to read read read and watch the videos.  Quitting is more than not smoking, yet it's not.  Glad you're here.

Twenty days in and my place has never been cleaner, or more organized. :wub: cpk

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Hi Michelle and welcome to QT, congratulations on getting through hell week, you are doing awesome, its all about re-educating yourself my lovely, you are worth so much more, take back control of your life, the craves are going to test you, and some days you will feel like banging your head off a brick wall, the NOPE is a wonderful chant in the early days, I swear people thought I was crazy, muttering under my breath NOPE, breath NOPE breath.....everything you feel is completely normal, stay close to the board and read, post and take it all in, if a bad crave hits reach out there is always someone here, and we will help you through it, you need to know that you can do this xx

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Welcome.  You should be sooo proud of yourself for quitting.  You are in the right place, no matter what you go through, at least some of us here will be able to emphasize with.  We are here to listen, and to help. 

Not doing this alone made all the difference in the world to me.  Glad you found us.  :)

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