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The Journey to a Smoke Free Life

90 Degrees

First let me send each of you that have supported over the past week a HUGE THANK YOU!!!!!   For some reason I lost all of my post and the wonderful support comments that each of you have offered me. I have not posted since I blew my quit on day 4. But I have been back here daily to read your comments, read other post and reflect. This morning I decided I was ready to post only to find out that I was still logged in but could not access anything. Thankful an administrator get me back on but ev
Marti's Blog

13 is lucky for me

It's so easy here. The quit is a wonderful thing still. It never gets old for me, perhaps because I assumed my family were "smokers" and it's what we did.   Today I joined a gym again, and I do exercise classes, a few of them and I still look like a ribena berry at the end lol, but I'm so much fitter. I take deep breaths all the time. I'm even wondering if I learn a new breathing technique to help and teach others...from an ex smoker!! Of 40 a day, who tried to quit and relapsed at a rapid rat
NOPE

The best things about not smoking

For me, the best things about not smoking, becoming a non smoker, are the small things. I have never been driven by 'how bad' smoking is for your health, of course, clearly, smoking is terrible for your well being. Somehow, my brain had learned to navigate around that fact, because of the nicotine, the drug; It was dismissed - 'it won't happen to me' attitude. So finding a driving factor for my quit has never been clear cut, until one day I had a moment of clarity.   The day I threw away smok
Aine's Blog

Sigh. . .

I've been using a vape pen for about 4 months now; 0 nicotine, but I was so damned restless in the evenings I thought I'd explode. Still no nicotine, but I've grown unhappy again with a dependency on the vaping. Not like my addiction to nicotine and cigarettes, but still. . .   So, think it's time to stop this dependency, too. Guess I'll pick up some straws today. Something to chew on, or something. I tire me out.   My attempt at "urban gardening" is helping some of the restlessness now, tho
  • Aine
MarylandQuitter's Blog

Tobacco Wars Documentary - Episodes 1, 2 & 3

...TOBACCO WARS vividly portrays what the companies really knew about the link between smoking and disease, explains how mankind became seduced by such a dangerous product, provides a status report on Big Tobacco today, and looks towards the future of this most controversial of industries. http://www.quittrain.com/topic/4812-tobacco-wars-documentary-episodes-1-2-3/
Marti's Blog

What a year!!

1 year and 1 day ago I wrote something on a support forum. I had no idea where it came from, I am a strong woman for sure, but this sounded like it had unending strength to "get er done" and I didn't have that for quitting! I had tried and failed many times from July through to last March, all roads led back to smoking. Social, weekend, less than a pack, more than before - all smoking! In truth I desperately wanted the quit...I just didn't know how not to be a smoker! By the time I got to a boar
NOPE

End of day 3

I think this afternoon and evening has been the hardest in terms of physical withdrawal. Although I felt pretty rough! I took myself out for a 2 mile run, showered and relaxed and feel a lot better.   I do a lot of writing both in work and out of work. The out of work writing was very much associated with having a smoke; so I need to find another way to step away from writing and have that moment for thought. I'll figure something out.   I can feel the urges getting weaker and my resilience
MarylandQuitter's Blog

10 MAR 2015, Weekly Group Discussion: For Those Who Are New In Their Quits, Please Enter.

Do you currently have any doubts if you'll be able to hang onto this quit? If so, what are they? Let's smooth out the speed bumps before they become road blocks. Please click the following link to enter the discussion. http://www.quittrain.com/topic/4721-for-those-who-are-new-in-their-quits-please-enter/
Marti's Blog

Hello triggers...it's been a while....

I don't much like my Mum. I feel bad saying that but I don't. She mistreated me in the form of emotional manipulation and bullying, for years, but worse the last year and I am done with her. Toxic as it is, she lives with me waiting to be housed by the coucil/authorities and I am her primary carer as she is disabled. It's one of those situations you look on and shake your head for the poor unfortunates involved.   Move backwards 15 years. I was quit. It had been 364 days when my then fiance an
Chrysalis' Blog

My shameful secret

I have a shameful secret that I never shared with anybody... I find staying quit harder than the original quitting. This has bothered me for months. To this day, I feel that I could easily and happily go right back to smoking 2 packs a day with no problem.   The weird thing is that I am NOT romancing the cigarette. My rational brain knows perfectly well that there are an endless number of reasons NOT to smoke and zero reasons TO smoke. But here I am 11 months quit and I don't feel any bette
NOPE

Day One

So i'm nearing the end of day one.   I have been here before a few times in the past, I knew what was coming and what to expect. A few hot flushes, a nagging voice to 'go buy some smokes'. Getting past trigger places through the day; keeping my mind occupied.   I only had one really bad moment in the day, that was early evening, when I would smoke the most. It's about snapping that routine, 'doing something else'.   I smoked for 25 years, sometimes heavy sometimes not. I liked smoking, I e
MarylandQuitter's Blog

Monday Is The Big Move To Our New Server!

Monday the 9th is when we'll be moving to our new server. The site will be down from approximately 1:30-4:30 PM EST. In the meantime, I encourage everybody to post on our Facebook page, especially if you're needing some help, advice or a place to just hang out. The QuitTrain® Blog will still be up so there are tons of articles to read, videos to watch etc. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Quit-Smoking-Quit-Train/550498668401231 http://quittrainblog.com/
jimmy's Blog

wow

i can belive i didnt quit sooner 2 years now can you belive i keep smoking after my dad died in 93 from smoking and i didnt quit till 2013 man that wasnt smart of me but im so glad i found all of you when i quit now look im free and you are to new and old a like we can all be free just have to work for it enjoy the freedom your the greastest group of people i have ever met and i love my qt family stay strong ktq :D :dirol:
  • jimmy
Marti's Blog

6 sleeps till 1 year

It's less than a week. I really can't believe it if I'm honest. I remember seeing people reaching this stage and thinking, I won't congratulate them cause I don't even know what to say to such an achievement. If I'm totally straight, I never was sure I'd make it, I wanted the quit desperately but I couldn't equate me to being a non smoker. Now I can and I like that. I think that happened after the holiday triggers were faced down and reinforced after the christmas shopping triggers were faced do
Marti's Blog

11 sleeps to the big one

I am weirded out by all the smoking dreams. Awake I know I'm not at risk...if only my subconscious would catch up!! Posted and asked for if others felt it.   Awake, I am feeling stronger. Like the quit is strengthening me. I will celebrate my 1 year this time and I will stay quit, because it is different now. I don't actually want to be a smoker, so the other option is non smoker isn't it. Simple really.   Would I smoke if the end of the world was nigh. No, I'd have people to be with and be

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