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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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YOUR QUIT & YOUR LIFE - THE PROPER SEQUENCE

Cristóbal Quit Date: 14 October 2012   Posted May 19, 2016 ·    When our quits are young, we must learn and then practice in a conscious manner, to disconnect and keep separate our quits from all life events.   We learn to always keep our quits sacred, protected, and never influenced by any life event that may happen.   This dynamic we may call The Proper Sequence, and it is powered by your commitment to Never.Take.Another.Puff. (NTAP). It does not matter
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You Need A Smoke ?

Sazerac Quit Date: October 23, 2013, A Good Day to be Free.   Posted July 31, 2016    All you quitters will remember this scenario, all you smokers don't have to live it anymore.   "Man, gimme a smoke.  I just need a smoke.   Everything is just too much.  I need a smoke." "ahhh.  thanks, that's better."   Really ?  What's better ?  The situation is still the same situation.  Nothing is better, things are just what they were.  The only th
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You know what - you don't want to be a smoker!-Repost by Poprini

Poprini   Posted 20 June 2014    No I'm not trying to hypnotise you or play Jedi mind tricks.  I'm talking about relapsers or quitters who continue to have smoking thoughts and desires.   Nobody WANTS to go back to smoking. They quit because they want to quit (for whatever reason). What they want from time to time is to smoke. And what that means is something else. It means all of the things that people "like" about smoking:   A break in the day Stres
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You Just Don't

Soberjulie   Posted April 7, 2014  some days are harder than others.   but you don't pick up that first cigarette   you just don't.   it's less about willpower than it is about making a decision not to, in advance of the thought or the desire, no matter how scared, angry, jealous, happy, bored, horny, depressed, anxious, elated, insecure, arrogant, lonely or silly you feel.   some days it seems that although yesterday life looked good, today
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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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World Health Organization Tobacco Facts

Key facts      •Tobacco kills up to half of its users.      •Tobacco kills more than 8 million people each year. More than 7 million of those deaths are the result of direct                     tobacco use while around 1.2 million are the result of non-smokers being exposed to second-hand smoke.      •Over 80% of the world's 1.3 billion tobacco users live in low- and middle-income countries.   Leading cause of death, illness and impoverishment   The tobacco epi
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Wise words.....'Embrace The Suck'

Soberjulie   Posted November 7, 2015    I dunno if Sarge still posts here but some of his no nonsense, shoot from the hip, tell it like it is words helped me immensely in my first days...weeks...months. The best: Embrace The Suck.   You'll have moments, many moments, where quitting just plain sucks. If you're anything like me, you'll think of throwing the towel in....because...."the way I feel sucks!"   Embrace the suck. Accept it.
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WILLPOWER

Mee Quit Date: 08/01/2018   Posted August 31, 2019    I used to think I did not have the willpower to quit smoking.  Every attempt, my thoughts would drift back to needing that cigarette and the excuses of why I could not quit.   Last night, as I lay in bed, I could not get this word out of my mind.  I realized that, over the past year, this word has really changed meaning for me. I always had the willpower to quit smoking, I just did not know how to do it.  St
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WILLPOWER

Mee Quit Date: 08/01/2018   Posted August 31, 2019    I used to think I did not have the willpower to quit smoking.  Every attempt, my thoughts would drift back to needing that cigarette and the excuses of why I could not quit.   Last night, as I lay in bed, I could not get this word out of my mind.  I realized that, over the past year, this word has really changed meaning for me. I always had the willpower to quit smoking, I just did not know how to do it.  St
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Will i always miss smoking?

Sunnyside Quit Date: 02/01/22   Posted July 6, 2016  I found this article on another website and thought it may help someone here. By Terry Martin "I quit smoking seven months ago. I do feel better, and I don't struggle all of the time now, but I still have days when I find myself missing my cigarettes. I sometimes wish I could have just one now and then. At times, the urge to smoke is so intense. I wonder if I'll ever be free of this habit? Will I miss smoking f
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Why N.O.P.E is a must!

Jenny   Quit Date: 05/24/2012   Posted March 30, 2014    I love this article on why you can't have just one.   It Takes Just One Cigarette to Relapse. January 14, 2013 by Cameron Kellett   You will never smoke again. Accepting this is perhaps the most daunting aspect of quitting smoking and nicotine addiction recovery.   The thought of never having another cigarette can be so overwhelming, that smokers will willingly go to the grave an addic
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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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Why is it so hard to quit smoking?

Nancy Quit Date: 07/07/2013   Posted March 25, 2016  From the American Cancer Society...   Why is it so hard to quit smoking? Mark Twain said, “Quitting smoking is easy. I’ve done it a thousand times.” Maybe you’ve tried to quit, too. Why is quitting and staying quit hard for so many people? The answer is mainly nicotine. Nicotine Nicotine is a drug found naturally in tobacco, which is as addictive as heroin or cocaine. Over time, a person becomes phy
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Why do we "Pay it Forward"?

soul Quit Date: 11.29.09   Posted April 8, 2014    I have taken the liberty to borrow a writing from a great man and modify it (may he forgive me) to fit the principle of "Paying it Forward" in the smoking cessation world......................   Here below is what I stand for, in all my affairs.............   "I stand by the door"     I neither go too far in, nor stay too far out. The door is among the most important doors in the w
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Why Did I Join A Quit Smoking Forum?

Tink Quit Date: 22/11/2013 Posted April 13, 2014    I am not a social media buff, I only have facebook where its my family and friends, people I have known most my life or who I trust and feel comfortable around (I only have about 150 friends added)    I was not good on computers, I can be a bit of a technology phobic -   so why did I join a quit smoking forum?   I really wanted to quit smoking is the answer and I did not feel that I could do it
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Why being part of a Forum helps

JackiMac Quit Date: 1st November 2018   Posted February 9, 2015    I was sitting thinking today, that over the last year I have had two relapses, and this is my 3rd attempt in a year to quit, now I am seriously beginning to realise that way back last year I would not have even attempted to quit if it had not been for finding, joining and taking part in this Forum, being able to see that I am not alone, that there are different ways to quit, that not everyone's quit is th
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Why a Quit Sticks.

El Bandito Quit Date: 27/01/2014   Posted November 5, 2014    Now then, let's be perfectly clear   My only expertise is a little experience in smoking and quitting smoking. I have watched some videos, read some books and shared with some fellow quitters. I have zero medical experience or expertise, in fact I look away when they show operations on medical dramas. No knowledge whatsoever of brain chemistry.    There is some true expertise knocking aroun
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Who's in Charge?

cpk Quit Date: 02/04/2015   Posted March 28, 2015 · IP  When you were a smoker trying to quit did you sometimes wish you could buy "just one"?   In my town a few stores used to sell single cigarettes. The singles they sold were stinky and stale and expensive, and it was like the tobacco industry was laughing in your face like "gotcha!" you will even buy a stale cigarette. What's next?, picking butts up out of the gutter?   Sure, you can bum one. But then w
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Who Is In Charge Of This Quit?

Tink Quit Date: 22/11/2013   Posted April 12, 2014    YOU - thats who!   no one else   no situation you find yourself in however difficult    its all down to YOU   sometimes you just have to bring your big bad ass self to the surface and say "I am in charge here" - "This is my quit, my life"   and nothing and no-one is going to bring me down!       (I am not a creative writer, I say it how it is for me
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Where does the train go?

Jonny5 Quit Date: 2011-12-21   Posted April 28, 2014    We are all on board the quit train, chugging away to our destination, but where is that destination, when will you have arrived?   the secret for me is that the train is very much like a child's train set, it has elaborate bridges, tunnels, stations etc, but ultimately the train is on a continuous loop.   there are many stations where we pick up passengers, there's Cold Turkey Park, Patch Junctio
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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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When things get crunchy, remember...

DenaliBlues Quit Date: 2/10/2022   Posted January 21    Reading and re-reading is a great strategy in the early hours and days of your quit. I did that, too. What else will you do to support and distract yourself? You might try making a list of things you can do instead of smoking when the cravings strike. I know it sounds corny to make a list, but it helps to be prepared (things to do with your hands, things to do with your mouth, mindless tasks, exercise snacks, physic
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What Does It Take To Stay Quit?

Tink Quit Date: 22/11/2013 Posted April 22, 2014 · IP    The truth is I am still learning    I have had my triggers and my cravings   my personal triumphs and my low points   some days were a piece of cake and some were a battle of the mind   I have made mistakes and allowed emotions and personal circumstances push me to the brink   At times I have allowed the junkie mind to romance the idea that smoking will take away the sit
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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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Welcome To a New Life - Your Quit!

Markus Quit Date: 02-19-2008   Posted April 4, 2014    It's all very personal.   Even though the methods used to quit are the same with slight variations depending on an individual's preference it all is a very personal thing.   You always choose what works for you or just wing it. You do that on your own, always. Some plans I see I just cringe, but you know it usually ends up that it works for that person.   A step-wise plan to quit is a go

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