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Are you scared to quit smoking?

Colleen Quit Date: 6/2/13   Posted June 13, 2015    I was scared too.  Thought I had this super addictive personality and all those who had successfully quit before me weren't really addicted to smoking.  Shortly after you quit, you are going to figure it out, but I'll let you in on the secret now...it's a bunch of baloney.  Nobody is more addicted to smoking than anyone else.  It's the monster otherwise known as nicotine playing tricks on you, kick his ass to the curb b
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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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FREE To All New Members Who Register...

jillar Posted November 30      *A lifetime of freedom from nicotine. *Worldwide support from members in all phases of quitting and who know and can relate to what you may go through at any given time in your quit. *Tons of educational material about our addiction to nicotine. Be it by reading, watching videos or asking other members. We have it all    So what do you have to lose by becoming a member?   ACT NOW and you can go into the New Year COM
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Lesser known medical problems from smoking

Martian5 Quit Date: 01/04/2018   Posted May 29, 2019    We all know the more known problems from years of smoking (Cancer, COPD, Heart problems and such) but their are some problems that are lesser known. Today I am going to the dentist to start fixing my mouth.  Most of the problems are tied in with my smoking over those many years, something I really did not think about. For the past year it has been very difficult for me to eat and also a lot of pain. Now I have
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Think you need just one?

Nancy Quit Date: 07/07/2013   Posted September 18, 2014    I have to have a cigarette, RIGHT NOW   By tahoehal  on November 26 2008      Picture yourself a second or two after you stub out that quit-breaking cigarette. The one that you just had to have because the craving was so strong you couldn't hold out any longer, when that voice inside you was saying.. "Go on, life sucks, you may as well smoke a cig.. y'know for your nerves.." or the other one.. "y
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The choices we make

Sunnyside Quit Date: 02/01/22   Posted December 2, 2016    We all chose to smoke and stick to it. When you first started it never became easy to you.   You had to work to make it feel natural. You had to work to become a full time smoker.   All the discomfort of coughing, head spinning, feeling sick didn't stop you from carrying on. Going around and around with the constant cravings never stop you.   Now years of conditioning later you have
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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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A Relapse Prevention Plan: The Tools of Recovery

sharonsiff Quit Date: 12 June 2013   Posted January 12, 2015    I have added this video I found to Chyrs relapse post but I'll put it out here too. Explains the 3 stages of a relapse Emotional, Mental and Physical. This would have been a fabulous video for me during my first months and hopefully will be of use to others who may need it now.         Link to original post: https://www.quittrain.com/topic/4154-a-relapse-prevention-plan-the
A Decade of Freedom From Nicotine

Ten Years of Freedom

Hello darling Nicotine Free creatures,   I forgot about a 10-year anniversary. Earlier this summer, remembered in a conversation with Joel Spitzer and an email from our marvelous Doreen and then forgotten completely.   Now a compelling reminder... Must never get blasé about my quit as memory of smoking recedes into the past. I ignore my struggle and success at my peril. There are far too many stories of carelessness leading to a resumption of the addiction after a
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Fearing the Crave

Jenny Quit Date: 05/24/2012   Posted November 9, 2014    Cravings are the most feared in a quit and we all know they can be uncomfortable. It's this fear that keeps many of us from even attempting to quit smoking. The fear of being uncomfortable.  We feel this way even though we know that smoking related disease is probably not terribly comfortable either.....addiction is so not rational....   The addiction wants to manipulate you into believing that there is n
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The thing about relapse, or considering it...

MarylandQuitter   Quit Date: 10/07/2013   Posted October 4, 2014    is that you may not ever quit again.  This is a very realistic outcome if you choose to smoke again.  We've all heard that smoking doesn't make anything better when in fact it makes it worse.  It's doesn't calm you down, solve your problems and instead costs a small fortune and kills you.   If you've started again, quit and right the ship.  If you're thinking about smoking again, quickly g
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Scared to Quit?? ... Face Your Fears, I Did and Lived to Tell.

notsmokinjo Quit Date: 28/11/2017   Posted October 9, 2018    Are you afraid to QUIT? ... I was.   Are you scared that you will fail or fail again? ... Yep, me too.   Is your fear that it will be too hard? .... kinda   Is your fear you just can't do it? ... that too   Is your fear quitting will make you sick? ... yep   Is your fear quitting will hasten you death? ... Absolutely petrified this would be the case and as irra
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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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The Pattern of the Journey

beacon   Posted March 5, 2015   I was thinking about the first few months of my quit and how I posted on the boards quite alot. I posted about dizziness, stomach aches, craves and anger and and clear lungs and weight gain and feelings of sheer joy. The first month, the first drink, the first vacation, the first taste, the first drs appointment, Each of these were special, unique, important to me, my experience. The old phartes commented, comforted, celebrated, and laughed.
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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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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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Are you thinking of quitting?

Soberjulie   Posted April 16, 2014      In other words, begin where you are. But begin. Please stop waiting. Sometimes delay can have very serious consequences.  As an addict I wanted the parade, the grand announcement, the regal launch, the ceremonial countdown, the press conference, the complete preparation with the guarantee of success before I thought I could start......before I could visualize what starting even looked like. Working through these thi
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Restless

babs609 Quit Date: 07/13/2012   Posted February 6, 2015    That's the word I used during the acute phase of my quit.  If I called it a "craving" I felt like it had power over me......as if the only thing that will ease that craving is the very thing that caused it and nothing will ever feel normal again..I will never feel relaxed or content again.  To me..the word "craving" went parrallel with "feed the craving"   But when I changed the wording to "restless", i
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So Amazing

NOPEster Quit Date: February 4, 2017   Posted July 30, 2018    Here I am visiting my sister in Norway for the first time as a non smoker. FYI my quit date was 2/5/17. I’ve never had such an easy time being a guest. My overseas flight over was enjoyable and stress free. I no longer constantly sneak off from the family for a cig. I can hike with the best of them. And I do not reek of smoke nor cough persistently.    I love my new independent life free from the ni
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JWG Post - THANK GOODNESS FOR CIGARETTES (22 January 2013)

Cristóbal Quit Date: 14 October 2012   Posted July 14, 2018    Posted on QSMB 22 Jan 2013 by JWG    THANK GOODNESS FOR CIGARETTES   Those were the words written across the back of the mans T-shirt "really" I though, what and odd thing to have printed on to a shirt but to each there own , I suppose I did my best just to blow it off and go about morning,reading the news paper while having a cup of coffee . I dont stop in the cafe every mornin

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