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Small Wins and Milestones

The Himalayan Quit

Namaste, and welcome aboard. I’m Bijay, from Kathmandu, Nepal, a city that looks toward the Himalayas. Nobody climbs a mountain in one giant jump. You climb it one step at a time, and some days you slip and have to find your footing again. I have come to believe that quitting smoking works the same way. I have tried to quit before, and I have started again. This time, I’m writing it all down. This blog is my honest record of that climb. Here you will find the hard days and the good days, the cra
Sazerac and her thirteen years

Sazerac and her thirteen years

Hello my darling Nicotine free creatures, Time for another party, she says with glee. Thirteen years FREE from the slavery of nicotine addiction. Hard to believe when the first 13 minutes passed and strengthened my resolve. I was winning each nano second. Then the weeks and days culminating in the first 13 months nicotine Free. A huge accomplishment through the seasons, the inevitable triggers. The triggers from bloody nowhere for no good reason. (like addiction has any reason to it at all). T
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Hello From The Grave 😊

Or urn i should say.... Hi guys, don't freak out! I decided back in the summer of 2021 to make some blog entries to post in the future so you guys don't forget me 😊 Hopefully you all are well and life's treating you good. Congratulations to all the awesome new quitters!  You will LOVE your new smoke free life. 😊 I'm so grateful for all the friendships, love, support and genuine caring you guys showed me and I thank you all so much for that 🤗 I've decided to post this on what
Twelve Years of Freedom

Twelve Years of Freedom

Hello darling nicotine free creatures and those ready to be free.   My anniversary...how many years? Twelve maybe. Forgotten as years of freedom expand but surely remember those first seconds that lasted forever turning begrudgingly into minutes before the next crave wave would hit. Craves did not capture me. I held my ground. But honestly, gave this, my quitting 'experiment' a year. If I didn't feel better after a year, I could always go back to smoking.
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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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Do or Do Not, There is No TRY

By DOCMarkC --- 03-12-2009 5:19 AM     I want you to stop trying to quit.   Yes, I said that. Even more, I mean it.   I browse around here and see post after post from people saying that they are "trying Chantix" or giving the gum a "try". Some are "trying to quit" for the sixth or seventh time. Others are quite positive. "I tried to quit many times before, but this time I'm going to try something different."   Any of you who have played a sport with a coa
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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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