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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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Quit Buddies

Tink Quit Date: 22/11/2013   Posted April 23, 2014    Quit Buddy -   A member you can talk to, share things with, talk to about quitting, share worries and woes someone who is there personally for you   checking in on you   that someone who can really get through to you   listen to you   it can be someone who has the same quit date as you or someone years ahead of you - it matters not    A QUIT BUDDY - Is pricel
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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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Please, Take your LIVES Seriously

Sazerac Quit Date: October 23, 2013, A Good Day to be Free.   Posted June 4, 2016    Please, Take Your LIVES Seriously ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In 'real' life and here on the QTrain, I see people being careless about their lives and their quit, like they have all the time in the world ! 'I'll quit next week, maybe tomorrow, I'll quit again sometime'. Are they not understanding how dangerous smoking is ? It's a friggin' Slow Suicide ! The ramifica
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Perception Shift

Boo Quit Date: March 9, 2016   Posted March 28, 2016    For much of the last couple of weeks, I hit a mental wall of sorts.  It wasn't that I was craving a cigarette so much as I was finding it difficult to identify myself as a nonsmoker.  Nagging, insecure thoughts were persistent.  I began to doubt if I was really done with smoking for good.  My policy to this point had been to "fight like hell."  What am I fighting?   The fight is with addiction of course, b
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Patience!

cpk Quit Date: 02/04/2015   Posted March 3, 2015    I've been doing some research online - various sites - and one thing I've noticed is that all those into new quits are extremely impatient, including me. All the newbies are asking, "When will this fatigue get better?" "I feel like crap...when will it go away? "My sleep is all off..." and I won't even go into the weight thing. The general sense I have is newly quits are a pretty impatient lot.   I think part o
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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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Owning Your Relapse

jillar Quit Date: May 29, 2016   Posted June 19, 2020    Over my four years of being on support forums I've seen a few people who just couldn't seem to get their sticky quit the first time. They start so gung-ho and post daily getting and even offering support from and to fellow quitters. Then one day they are gone...…….. When they resurface it's usually with tail between their legs hoping for the same support they received before they relapsed. And with the excepti
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Over and over again

Abby Quit Date: June 30 2011   Posted July 2, 2016    Having to push the restart button over and over was so exhausting , so discouraging and so defeating . I felt hopeless that "I" may one day be quit. I learned that to keep a quit I had to make a firm committment to MYSELF that I could not continue to do what I had always done. Some craves can be really tough but everyone we get through has less power the next time. I remember how exhausting it was, battling craves and
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One Year Commitment Completed - and now...

Sirius Quit Date: May 27, 2014   Posted May 23, 2017    ...and now you don't get rid of me that easily.   :rtfm:     When I started my quit I found that time was my enemy.        I fought for each moment to stay nicotine free.   :hunter:   The moments became day-to-day issues.   Then just occasional cravings.  :unsure:   Eventually time becomes your friend again.     More time in the day to do things other then
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One Question

Boo Quit Date: March 9, 2016   Posted November 29, 2018    Did I smoke today?   It is the one and only question that matters when quitting.  I've seen some recent posts in which people call themselves "bad quitters" because they craved and/or romanced the cigarette during their quit.  There is no such thing as a "bad quitter."  There are only successful quitters and smokers.   If you craved a cigarette but didn't smoke, you are a successful quitter. 
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One less thing to worry about

Lust4Life Quit Date: Sept 26 2016   Posted October 9, 2018    Those of you that know me from QSMB know that I was a secret smoker.  Closet smoker.  Naïve smoker.  Pick a label any label.  I lived in constant fear.  Constant worry.   Fear of being outed.   So much worry. Which cracks me up now because smokers stink no matter what is done to mask it.   Pretty sure my smoking was the pink elephant in the room no one talked about.  Yay!   I had an ongoing
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Old Dogs and New Tricks

Boo Quit Date: March 9, 2016   Posted August 26, 2017 ·    "You can't teach an old dog new tricks."  I'm not one to nitpick over semantics, but I've heard that old cliche twice today.  How many phrases do we mindlessly repeat without ever really thinking about them.  Maybe I'm overthinking the phrase.  Or perhaps when you begin making a conscious effort to make positive changes, you're a bit more sensitive to the kind of self-defeating limitations we place on ourselves.
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Nothing is more important.

Christian99 Quit Date: 12/11/01   Posted September 6, 2021    It is certainly possible to quit without substantial (or even any) weight gain, but my experience has been that a common characteristic of many successful quitters is the prioritization of quitting over pretty much everything else.  Nothing is more important for your health.  Nothing.  And nothing is more important for your spirt and self-esteem.  Ask yourself what it will take for you to do WHATEVER it takes.
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NOPE~Never/Ever/Forever

Sazerac Quit Date: October 23, 2013, A Good Day to be Free.   Posted July 24, 2016    Some quitters may have trouble with the never/ever part of  NOPE (Not One Puff Ever).   To tell you the truth,  in the nascence of my quit, I  bluffed my way through never/ever land. I remember Cristobal and Stuart qualifying never/ever with the caveat,  'just for today' and that was the truth too, it is just about here and now.   As days and weeks passed,  I abs
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Nobody Understands What I'm Going Through (while quitting smoking)

MarylandQuitter Quit Date: 10/07/2013   Posted October 17, 2014    I know for me, my family truly had not a clue about the addiction much less what it was like to quit.  This is why I suppose my doctor told me to get involved in a support group.    Nobody Understands What I'm Going Through Video discusses what family members can and cannot do to help their loved ones to quit smoking.       Link to original post: https://www.q
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No Matter What, Right?

Ramona Quit Date: 1/29/2017   Posted September 1, 2015    In 4 days I will celebrate my 10 month mark.  I've not had a single puff in these 10 months.  I did not sacrifice a single inhale to death sticks.  Astounding!!!   To quit smoking has been my number one, most important goal.  Nothing has come before it.  I've made it this far because I've made this quit my top priority.  If the choice is between smoking a cigarette OR:   punching myself in the
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No Man's Land

Nancy Quit Date: 07/07/2013 Posted March 23, 2018 ·    By tahoehal  on May 13 2008    I seldom start a post, unless it is to honor someone's anniversary. But I feel compelled to share something that I seem to be sharing a lot of lately... and that is my thoughts on 'No Man's Land'. No Man's Land is a dangerous and scary place... and it is a lonely time during a quit. I call No Man's Land that period of time between about 1 month and 3 or 4 months into your quit
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nicotine replacement therapy

babs609 Quit Date: 07/13/2012   Posted March 2, 2015 · IP  It's not what you think...at least not in this post.   Many people who "attempt" to quit smoking hope and pray for it.  They just crush their last few cigarettes when they are sick of themselves...of course, they just put out a cigarette when they do this so they feel all brave.  (20 min later--digging through the trash to find those cigarettes--I admit-I did that)   Then you have those that do qui
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Newly Quit? Stay Away From Smokers...

Rain Forest Quit Date: May 13, 2009 Posted April 21, 2014 · IP      When you first quit smoking, the most horrible people to be around are the ones still smoking, and it’s not because they smoke.   It’s because they don’t understand at all, you are making them feel guilty as hell because you are doing what they “wish” they could do, and they are almost worst than the Nicodemon and it’s craves: they try to get you to smoke.   I relapsed a few times bef
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My Story...Hope it Helps

stzr500 Quit Date: 02/24/2017   Posted March 10, 2018    Hello,         I just want to start off stating that Feb 24th was my first year smoke free. I just want to give a bit of insight on how things went and are still going. This may be a bit in length but to totally understand it has to be, sorry. I came home that night on the 24th after I said goodbye to my daughter whom was off to rehab for her own addiction. I said if she can do it so can I even after 30 years
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My Friend Nick

NADA Members   Posted October 25, 2017    When I was thirteen years old this new kid, Nick, moved into my neighborhood.  At first I didn’t like him at all.  In fact, you could even say he made me sick.  But after a few weeks he started to grow on me and before you knew it we were hanging out daily.   Nick seemed like the coolest kid on the planet…so much more mature than my childish peers.  And hanging out with him made me feel cool too.  Before long I found th
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My Cigarette, My friend......

Soberjulie   Posted April 16, 2014    How do you feel about a friend who has to go everywhere with you? Not only does he tag along all the time, but since he is so offensive and vulgar, you become unwelcome when with him. He has a peculiar odor that sticks to you wherever you go. Others think both of you stink. He controls you totally. When he says jump, you jump. Sometimes in the middle of a blizzard or storm, he wants you to come to the store and pick
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More Thoughts on Triggers

d2e8b8 3579 Quit Date: Oct 17, 2016   Posted December 15    I recall a post explaining triggers which I'll try to paraphrase in case it helps someone as much as it helped me.   There are 3 kinds of triggers -    - Daily triggers.  These happen daily e.g. coffee, lunch, in the car driving to work, returning from work, etc.  When we quit smoking, these are the triggers that we tackle first and overcome within the first few days.  Having overcome these,
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Mindset Really Is Everything

babs609 Quit Date: 07/13/2012     Posted August 23, 2014 · IP  There have been discussions recently about NOPE and how it doesn't resonate well with some.  I understand that feeling.  When I was fresh in my quit the first few months, I wanted to believe those that have quit before me.  I wanted their sense of peacefulness and satisfaction with life without the cigarette.  I just couldn't imagine it and the daily restlessness that was occurring made it even more difficult
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Mind games

babs609 Quit Date: 07/13/2012   Posted December 9, 2014 · IP  wrote this a while ago and just came across it.  Thought I would share it.      As I was driving to work a couple of weeks ago, a song from my past came on the radio.  Instantly put me in a good mood.  I was singing along, bopping in my seat happily as i drove to work.  The song triggered a memory for me...a happy memory.  I was in a good mood all day because of it.   Fast forward 2 weeks l

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