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6054 unsmoked cigarettes when I just posted something. That's just a save on so many levels!! There are a lot of new quitters I'm reading and some great advice being given. Wish I had of followed any of it haha. Claw through quitter, take a bow :) Many a mental moment, throwing my hands skywards and saying for Milly and I. The nope shuffle, switch from foot to foot literally saying nope nope nope. Should of taken shares in cough sweets and nobbys nut for sure...utter miss in planning :) I read that some people struggled at 6 months, I mean not like the early days but just more thoughts than 4/5 months sorta thing. Not my experience thank goodness. Feeling together and powerful. 5 months was utter pants for me on a personal level which of course upped my thoughts then - maybe I got it out the way? Happy and content with my quit. Peaceful again, secure, utterly delighted to not have smoked another 6000+ cigs. I look at who I am today and it's so different. I love to exercise. I love to do things with my kids, out and about and I can, because I have more money! My confidence is such that I can say no in a non aggressive way and it just is no. I was a slave for 23 years to nicotine and in honesty, I never realized how totally it controlled me. How it controlled my life, the movements of my life, the money in my life...every part of who I was had become tied to when I could smoke. I do love me a bit of freedom, especially when I never even realized that would come!! Less then a month to taking Milly and Bella on the holiday of a lifetime to Florida. 5 day disney tickets booked and paid. 2 day universal tickets booked and paid. rocket launch at kennedy space centre booked and paid....because we don't smoke anymore, because we are free of the tie and chose NOPE as many times as it took. Bring on any thoughts or craves, I have enough amo now that I can bat you back out of my brain within seconds. I breath, I live, I have money, I have self worth...life is pretty freakin good!!

I am having surgery early next year and part of this process is needing clearance from a pulmonologist. I finally had my appointment today. My chest X-rays looked great! (almost 3 packs a day... lungs look good? *wipes brow*) I did great on the breathing test! He was actually surprised to hear that I was ever a smoker. :D Woo hoo! I have sleep apnea (boooooo) This is a good and a bad thing. Bad because it is sleep apnea but good because it is one more justification toward getting the surgery. :D I go for sleep study in mid November. I am not looking forward to that because I probably won't sleep.

What beautiful Lungs you have ! man, our bodies are so amazing to recover from damage. Sleep apnea gets fixed ? and you get to actually SLEEP ? how novel ! Good luck with all the rest of the poking and prodding. Make sure Witch Doctors stay clear of your Funny Bone, it don't need no fixing. Love, S

note to self. dont shave the dog when craving for a smoke. not a good combination

I am glad that your lungs are shiney and pink :)

Happy for you my friend! Loving the good news!! (((Jenn)))

Also, Ex Smoker, if you don't make a new post to your blog, but just keep adding comments, you are going to drop off the "recent" section and many of us will not see you. While I understand you want a blog, many of your posts would be better under SOS or Quit Smoking Discussions, where people will be sure to see them. I'm just trying to help!

Day 5: today is not going to well. the thought to smoke for today to help ease with the tension and I can quit again tomorrow or maybe later when it will be a little easier is being very persuasive. my commitment is wavering, once again.

remember this day. this is the first day of the rest of your life with no nicotine in your body and you never have to subject yourself to that kind of poison again. the choice is yours. celebrate the freedom and suck in the fresh clean air. your body has waited a long time for this day. you are rocking this quit. :)

I made it thru today and am now officially with no nicotine in my body. Now for the mental aspect of the quit to rear its ugly head. Today was a challenge and if I can do today then I can do anyday. embracing day 4. note: I contemplated taking a gum or lozenger to help take the edge off of today but I kept waiting 5 minutes, one hour, 10 more minutes and found that all i had to do was keep the patience and reaffirm to my junkie mind that I am no longer a smoker.andI dont need nicotine in any form. and I didnt die. I survived. more proof that I can beat this.: )

hour by hour, I will not smoke. Remember how this feels cause you'll never have to go thru it again if you just don't take one puff. no such thing as one cigarette. you'll want all the ones that go behind it. you've done this too many times, not this time. Just don't smoke today. this hour. Get past this one cigarette and see it for what it really is.

It´s fun, you should try it Ava :P (chicks or sticks) It´s really great going through this with all of you, I´m even having fun when I thought this were going to be the worse days or my life. I It moves me that you say I make you proud DD. :)