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Welcome @Meg and thank you for your inspiring post! Congratulations on 17 years nicotine free! What an amazing achievement. I have seen a few people mention the website QuitNet before. I do like the sound of the daily updates and it can be eye watering seeing the figures written down of how much you've saved, how many cigarettes you haven't smoked etc. You're correct in saying one puff leads to two etc. I'm in the early stages (2 weeks and 2 days smoke free so far) but I know if I had one puff, that's it for me! Thank you for sharing your story, it really helps.

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Hello and welcome @Meg Thank you for sharing your journey with us and a massive Congratulations on your 17 years smoke Free

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Hello, I was also a member of Quitnet and to this day, almost 17 years of being nicotine free I still tell people about that website. Best information, positive reinforcement with no guilt, no judging, just great peer-to-peer chats, info and guidance. My favorite part about that website was the tracking option they had. At the beginning, you key in how many cigarettes you smoke in a day, how much you pay per pack, and what day you decided to make the quit. From that point forward, it sends you daily updates as to how many cigs you HAVEN'T smoked, how much money you HAVEN'T spent and how many days you've been nicotine free. It's like watching the money in a savings account grow, they send you your specifics every morning, it was the email I looked forward to the most. I used a drug called Champix or Chantix (it seems to work the way the new weight loss drugs work, by denying the brain receptors what they need to provide you with "pleasure") and it worked like a charm for me. It did make me a little bit passive/aggressive where I'm normally a calm person and that has stayed with me. I'm not sure if it's a result of the Champix or not but I'm willing to put up with it to be out of those nicotine chains. My calculations, very generally, are that I had my last cigarette on the morning of March 14, 2009 (9 months to the day that my mother died - I found that a little prophetic). That means, as of today, I HAVE NOT SMOKED 155,125 cigarettes, I HAVE NOT SPENT well over $93,075 (when I quit I was paying $10/pack, they're now $20/pack so I averaged it out to $15/pack for the 17 years that I haven't smoked) and I HAVE NOT HAD any relapses - not one. The other thing that I took away from that website was the acronym N.O.P.E. NOT ONE PUFF EVER! As smokers, we all know that one puff leads to two, which leads to smoking a whole cigarette and that invariably leads to a walk to the store for "just one pack" and I'll quit after that. You know you won't, so stop lying to yourself. Put your big person panties and on and run headlong into the turmoil - you won't regret it for a minute once you're done. Worked for me - I wish you luck in your quitting cigarettes journey - it's so worth the fight to get them gone from your life!!

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