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Good Morning my lovely fellow Nopers. Lets get this week on the road, and as we we wave good by to April, let us remember that we just did another month of freedom and it never felt so good. So its a bit fat NOPE from down under... the land of sunshine and a million things that can kill, maime or hurt you, so why add to that and smoke? A-Z Topic of the Day: Chick Singers and their songs

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NOPE, smoking is stupid.

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NOPE....NOT TODAY

G'day NOPE from me C

Morning my lovely fellow Nopers... How are you all travelling this fine Sunday morning. What a great day to be a Noper. NOPE.. not ever, not one, nope for me .... Topic of the Day: Its Sunday so we all know that its Sunday Slang Spectacular.... (would be nice to see something other that Pom, Scott, Aussie or Kiwi slang...)

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Och, its the lasy day of the weekend already..!! NOPE ?

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NOPE - smoking sucks!

Wow!! Congratulations Nicole. 5 years smoke free is fabulous What an inspiration to the rest of us.

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Congratulations J! 2 years is fabulous. Keep going

Congrats IP! 6 months smoke free is huge! You're officially at the halfway mark to reaching the Lido Deck. Be sure to celebrate your hard work. You deserve it

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Climbed mountain nearly 8400’ yesterday. Killer hard! Pic shows me at rescue box 2 (about 6000’). Have to admit I was a little pissed off that Boo had apparently beat me to it.

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Ok need to expand this on this .... Besides deciding to see how far I could take this quit, the only real thing I have done to make it stick is to NOPE, and even that has more to do with everyone else than it does with me. This quit is really so sticky because of everyone else here.... you see, for me, it works like this... it was all just a big joke and a big game (my quit), kind of a like a dare I gave myself each day, a bit of an experiment (and we all know how I love my experiments ). Anyway, I was into week 3 and I sort of thought, might be time to take this serious I'm actually doing this and then...the week 3 mental breakdown hit... the wheels were falling off my quit. A google search lead me to the over there, where I did some scatty post and Jillar, and Beazel and a heap of others jumped on an gee'd me up... so then I went awol and dealt with my real life issues over chrissy (which were pretty hairy), didn't toss my quit but was missing from the boards. Once real life settled it was back online to all the post new years join ups. Every single day was 24 hours of hell as I struggled to get through without lighting up... every day I would look at the NOPE thread but I wouldn't post.. because, well, Not One Puff Ever... really could I publicly declare that?... in front of all these people who I was getting to know and consider friends... yeah-nah I wasn't doing that, some of these friends really meant something and if I said NOPE and then tossed it in I couldn't face them again, I'd have to walk away and well if I didn't NOPE and did toss it away I wouldn't feel like I had lied to everyone so I could stay and start over... yep real junkie, had the contingencies all lined up... and then 1 day I I went "Ah Fvck it" cos I was kinda feeling fraudulent that i didn't NOPE so I did... and I kid you not the whole quit and crave thing became easier... but the thought of giving up this quit, tossing it away, is more tied to loosing face to everyone in that NOPE thread... cos every day I go in there and I NOPE and I mean it and if I toss that... I just lied to everyone and I'm a total fricking sham. The second thing is the last time I relapsed it took me over a decade to do this again... over a decade... why??? because I felt so sh1tty about myself, I felt like I was pathetic and I'd never be able to do it so why bother... BS... 5 months, feeling better and stronger than I ever did that last time. But why, why am I better with it this time... Its you sticks and chick, you blokes and sheilas, you lads n lassies, guys and girls, its all of you who accept the annoying craziness that can be me at times, those of you who notice the patterns when I take up residence on the river nile and I act like all is fine but you somehow know its not and reach out with a PM and then have to put up with an hour or two of wow is me yada, yada, yada... its the ones who make me laugh out loud, even if I'm on a packed train, or the ones that tell me I'm doing a good job (so clearly we all now know that's a thing for me too) ... its the ones who bare witness to my nope each day, its those old phartes who drag out brilliant posts from the archives to save me searching for them, its those who are just a daily presence to swap a number with or change a letter with , or answer a silly question, its those of you who look at my posts and realise its an SOS even when I don't myself and give me the arse kicking, reality check I need... This quit is so sticky because I have every single, eccentric, dedicated, crazy arsed fellow junky on this train at my back holding me up and pushing me forward. So I hope ya all frickin proud.

@bakon I pm'd you that selfie for personal use only and now your sharing ti with the whole forum... sheesh.. lesson learnt, I'm saving all my selfies for Pork Chop now.

Huge Congratulations Gigi on arriving on the Lido Deck after 1 year smoke free! Take your rightful place and relax in a lounge while we get you one of those fancy umbrella drinks Great Job!!

I knew from the start it could not be true!! But it still got my heart rate up for a minute!!

Thanks everyone, each day gets a easier and easier. Started exercising and eating healthier to combat weight gain. Gained a few pounds but I'm maintaining, hopefully the pounds will start pouring off soon! Lol

Could be a diversion tactic. Draw the chicks attention away from the counting game?

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Absolutely NOPE!

Good morning. I pledge NOPE today.

Nope. Smoking is not an option.

The few pounds I gained at the beginning..came off naturally around the 14 month mark... Make sure the snacks are healthy ones...and carry on exercising... It should even itself out..... Of course when I had my gallstones trouble ..my diet was beetroot and lettuce...I dropped so much weight.....that's not healthy either.. I'm now back to my normal weight for me..4 ft 11...8 St ....every extra pounds shows when your a short arse .... I try to make sure my plate is 3 quarters vegetables...

In my case it was a combination of luck and education. The first month was relatively easy and it wasn’t difficult to handle the cravings. The later i was in my quit the More founded was the argument “it’d be a pity to waste it now”. I also decided to read more. While browsing online I found QSMB as well as other pages. Knowing why and what is happening helps enormously. Now, almost six months clean, I have surprisingly strong cravings. I guess it’s because of the stress of moving to another country and all the related changes. However, knowledge that such stress I always “cured” with smoking and need to reprogram my mind now, makes it easier and helps not to romanticize the cigarette. As a bonus I’ll add determination and stubbornness. I was told I wouldn’t do it and here I am.

Guess what I did today...went for a walk. Did an out-and-back hike at Jacks River this morning. Total of 9.4 miles plus another 3/10 of a mile with some spur trail action thrown in. Nice day for a hike. The water levels were up and the falls were roaring this morning.

My advice is this: start tracking your caloric intake. If you don't change anything immediately, that's fine. Just track your intake for a few days. Evaluate that and decide where changes can be made for the positive. Pick an area (for example: the aforementioned doughnuts) and start to make changes there. Don't try to change everything at once. Crash diets typically crash and burn. Small changes over time is where you will find success. Tracking can be annoying. Calorie counting is a pain in the ass. Once you have a better idea of exactly where you are, you can leave both tools behind and start eating healthy intuitively. As for the exercise, think about any physical activities that you enjoy doing and do those more often.

Gday NOPE from me C

What a great post, Bird. Well done, you. That's a fabulous quit you have going and an attitude that will help it last a lifetime.

Oh shit, how long this list is. It hit me straight in the face. I contain more chemicals than a pharmacy. Horrifying.

Curves are good.