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Pick of the Week

A blog by jillar in General

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About this blog

A weekly blog featuring well written posts from members of our community. Each week I'll pick a post and add it to this blog along with the link to the whole thread for anyone wanting to read more. Hope you like it 😊

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When Will You Finally Be Ready to Quit Smoking?

Angeleek Quit Date: January 17, 2020   Posted August 14, 2021    Probably never. I'm pretty sure most long-time smokers and ex-smokers will agree that you'll probably never be ready to quit smoking, until something terrible happens to you or someone you love.    If you are new to smoking (or vaping, chewing, whatever), or haven't yet smoked for 20 or 30 years, just go ahead and quit now. Don't wait until you are ready, as that may be too late. Be ready to inves
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The Fear of Quitting Smoking

JackiMac Quit Date: 1st November 2018   Posted May 5, 2014   I Wrote this before and still feel people who want to quit are not getting the message!   Death the one taboo subject.....the one subject most people are scared to talk about, it frightens me, scares me to death! I don't like thinking about it, its the unknown.............BUT what really gets to me now is that for the last 30+ years I was more afraid of giving up smoking WHAT seriously I was so so afr
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Put in the time and claim your victory

Penguin Quit Date: 19 October 2023   Posted Wednesday at 08:08   I was in the hospital for my first four days, which made my quit a lot less stressful, apart from the whole "collapsed lung" bit. That said, I slept a lot, and I watched TV a lot. I tried my best to keep my mind busy. When I got home, I threw out every little scrap of smoking paraphernalia I could find. After that, I ordered a big bag of candy--Skittles, if I recall correctly--and used those for my oral fix
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Cristóbal's Quit Days %

Sazerac Quit Date: October 23, 2013, A Good Day to be Free.   Posted March 24, 2018    Deep in the archives, I found another gem from, our friend, Cristóbal   Cristóbal's Quit Days %    Some people are amazed that even though they may have several weeks or months quit,  that they still do not feel completely "normal", and continue to miss smoking.   When this happens, figure your "Quit Days %" and then you will see why.   The
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Denaliblues Quit Story

DenaliBlues Quit Date: 2/10/2022   Posted February 27, 2022    I’m a newcomer pinging in to say hello. I’ve been lurking on the site for a while, but I set up a profile today so that I could participate. Thanks for the experiences and the compassionate, nonjudgmental encouragement shared here. Reading the info and comments has helped me through some white-knuckle moments.   My last smoke was 17 days ago. It was not a planned quit. I was having oral surgery, and
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Junkie Thinking

MarylandQuitter Quit Date: 10/07/2013   Posted April 2, 2014    What are some other excuses to smoke?   Excuses to smoke JUNKIE THINKING: “One Puff won’t hurt” RESPONSE: “One puff will always hurt me, and it always will because I’m not a social smoker. One puff and I’ll be smoking compulsively again.”   JUNKIE THINKING: “I only want one.” RESPONSE: “I have never wanted only one. In fact, I want 20-30 a day every day. I want them all.”
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Effort in = outcome . The results .

Abby Quit Date: June 30 2011   Posted April 20, 2021    I wrote this in response to someone this morning but lost where the post is now . Weird .  I've forgotten how to use the site sorry so hope this reaches the person it was intended for .  -----------------------------------------   Effort in = outcome . The results . Easy no it is not , but in the end it will be very worth the effort .   We all walk this journey together 1 day or ten yea
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Do you feel like a victim?

JH63 Posted March 11, 2021     I've spent the last couple of days watching the Big Tobacco video's and the Marlboro video again and I've read the Alan Carr book tree times.  Got me to thinking back to when I was young and first started smoking.  My first memories of smoking were some friends and me riding our bicycles about a mile to a little country store for cigarettes. This was about 1970 or 71 cigarettes were 28 cents a pack. We often pooled our money and shared the pack
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How do you stay in control and handle your anti-supporters?

johnny5 Quit Date: Nov. 16, 2014   Posted December 13, 2020    First off, I'm curious if these negative people you are talking about are smokers.  I know that when I was a smoker, I often got defensive when one of my smoking friends attempted to quit.  I didn't try to sabotage their quit but I definitely felt threatened.  Looking back, I realize that I was envious of people who were trying to quit and might possibly be successful.  If these people who are negative to you
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Pack of JACs

Lust4Life Quit Date: Sept 26 2016   Posted January 13, 2021    Newbies and lurkers - rest assured I did not smoke a pack of cigarettes.   Way back in 2016 one of fearless leaders @jillar shared a great tool - the air cig.  Put your  fingers up to your mouth.  Take a drag of air.  I termed it pack of JACs.  Jillar's Air Cigarettes. Hard to do in public these days.  My security blanket was a straw, cut down to the size of a cig.  That did not work for me tonight.  After al
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Lifetime of Addiction

Sazerac Quit Date: October 23, 2013, A Good Day to be Free.   Posted October 3, 2014   Our Nancy asked me to post this from my blog to 'Quit Smoking Discussion'.  Thank you Nancy.   Lifetime of Addiction     I didn't want to hear this but, I am now facing this truth. Nicotine Addiction doesn't go away. You can put it to sleep. You can even put it into deep deep and deeper sleep for years ! but, it will awaken the moment you take one
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It's As Easy As You Let It Be

SecondChanceSailor Quit Date: 20Sep20   Posted December 1, 2024    I know I’ve been really bad about checking in here.  I’m a couple months past my 4 year anniversary and felt compelled to touch base and if I can help anyone struggling, to do so.     If you told me 14 years ago, when I first quit, or any of the 10 years between then and when I actually did quit that I’d be here right now, I wouldn’t believe you.     My journey started on the old message boa
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Wendy's Quit Story

Wendy Quit Date: 18/01/2015   Posted January 19    Yesterday, I celebrated 10 years since I quit smoking.  Except celebrated is a bit of an exaggeration on what I actually did.  I remembered the anniversary at around 7pm, promptly texted my eldest son to say “hey it's been 10 years” - he congratulated me - and logged onto Quit Train to log my 10 years on a little section in my profile.  I’ve done that almost every year (usually a couple of days late and my 6th year anniv
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Allen Carr ..The Easy Way !!!

Doreensfree Quit Date: 7 /8/2013   Posted May 23, 2018      If you havn,t read this book yet...its a must... He has helped millions.... You can download it on the internet ,and read it for free... What have you got to lose.!!!!....nothing.... And could gain freedom !!!   Link to original post: https://www.quittrain.com/topic/10456-allen-carr-the-easy-way/  
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Untangling the Knot

DenaliBlues Quit Date: 2/10/2022   Posted March 2, 2022    Congrats on completing day one  @JustinHoot99!  And thanks for raising the topic of action. I can relate.   A fiendishly clever aspect of my addiction is how it takes habituated behaviors + emotions + physical/chemical dependence and ratchets them into a really tight knot that seems impossible to untangle. As I start to pry those strands apart, I find that each one wants to smoke for different reasons.
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The Bare Facts About Relapse-Quitnet Repost

Genecanuck Quit Date: August 19, 2024   Posted August 27      The Bare Facts About Relapse From joyinca Nicotine Users Are Drug Addicts, And Therefore Are Subject To All Of The Rules Of Drug Addiction The very first cigarette you smoked started you down the road to addiction. You arrived without knowing where you were going. Now you know. You have joined the millions of nicotine users who are and will always be drug addicts. There is no changing this
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A CRAVE IS NEVER A COMMAND

Cristóbal Quit Date: 14 October 2012   Posted January 14, 2017  (First Posted 01 April 2014)     A crave can happen because of 2 things:     1. Physical Withdrawl Symptoms.   2. Mental or Emotional Smoking Triggers.     Craves can happen frequently early in our quits, because of physical withdrawl symptoms.   They can also happen simultaneously with physical cravings and then later in our quits, much less frequently, as we continue to confro
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Why is Quitting So Hard-Repost by jwg

jillar Quit Date: May 29, 2016 Posted May 18, 2018    Why is quitting So hard by jwg » Wed Aug 29, 2012 4:01 pm   So that is the question , why is quitting so hard ? I think there is only one reason quitting it so hard to do Or maybe two reasons , at most three to five ,, less then ten for sure.. Sadly I don’t think most here will agree with me nor will they aperciate my opion , and that really all this. My opion . A view from my porch and from my ex
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Sex, Health, Money & Time

Sazerac Quit Date: October 23, 2013, A Good Day to be Free.   Posted July 20, 2016                            *Want better Health immediately ?                   *Want extra Money in your pocket now ?     *Want more enjoyment from Sexual encounters tonight ?           Well then, it's Time to free yourself from nicotine addiction !   You can start by giving yourself 72 hours because in three days nicotine begins to leave your body. Tak
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Reaching cruising altitude

AceWhite Quit Date: 2/7/2021   Posted March 6, 2021    Hi fellow NOPE'ers I've been thinking about how my quit is like being on an airplane. The first part of the quit is like a takeoff. A whoosh of a new feeling- some excitement even as I embarked on a journey and reached new heights. Slowly, as i've gained altitude, space between myself and that last smoke, I feel now at almost one moth in i'm hitting the cruising altitude, but with altitude comes pressu
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I Was the Smoking Spouse

DenaliBlues Quit Date: 2/10/2022   Posted August 30    A lot of couples struggle when one person quits smoking and the other does not. I’ve been reflecting on recent Quit Train discussions on this topic, because for decades I was "the smoking spouse."   I didn’t smoke in our home or in our car. But the smoke clung to me and was present everywhere I went. It caused a ton of tension with my mate. The stink. The health worries. The temptation to join in. She H-A-T
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You don't just 'Get off the Quit Train....'

IamDoingIt   Posted July 15, 2014    I do not care who you are! You do not just 'Get off the Quit Train....'   You throw yourself head-first off a speeding train to land in the track bed below the train. You bounce down the railroad ties, bumping, flipping, twirling after the train.   A few of the train's car wheels run you over and you may stick to the steel wheel....spinning 'round and 'round as other riders in the car sit comfortably in their quit. Soon
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Spoiled Brats / Nicotine Addicts

Sazerac Quit Date: October 23, 2013, A Good Day to be Free.   Posted July 1, 2016    It was after quitting smoking, I realized  how addiction had turned me into a spoiled brat. I indulged myself completely,  I smoked anytime and anywhere possible. My most shameful example was after a home birth, my brand new daughter, alive and healthy, was being walked around by her father and I said to my midwifes, 'man,  after 9 months and the last 12 hours, I NEED A SMOK
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The Lie

NADA   Posted January 10, 2019    I'm not sure if there are others out there who believe that smoking and lying go hand-in-hand, but I found myself lying to people throughout my life about whether I smoked, how much I smoked, and if it was effecting my health.  This is a post I wrote a few years ago.   Most of us smokers began our years or decades of addiction back when we were teens.  We learned to lie about smoking right from the very beginning.  Usually it starte
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Do you know him? - Quitnet Repost, 1998

Genecanuck Quit Date: August 19, 2024   Posted August 23    Do you know him?, Quitnet Repost, 1998   from Billi Peel, on another site in 1998 Hi Everyone,  My name is Nicotine. This is my story. For many years no one knew I was a killer. I am very cunning, while looking so innocent. I am dressed in a white wrapper. I think my shape is great. I am long, slender and easy to hold. This is great for the 90's image. I've come a long way baby. Billions o

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