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Thank you guys.I didn't smoke and the craving passed like you all said it would. This is by far the hardest thing I have ever quit but I am starting to see a life without cigarettes! Not the whole life but a glimpse of me not wanting these icky things. That makes me very happy! Still feel like a junkie though? but I look forward to the day I don't.

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Nope Nope Nope. I still don’t smoke. Hello all you beautiful non-smokers.

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NOPE on Day 8?

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Woohoo my friend, congratulations on nine months smoke free! You are such a beloved member here and I'm super glad to call you my friend. Thank you for all you do around this train, we all appreciate you Celebrate you today, you've earned it!

Another Nope from me.

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NOPE - Smoking sucks!

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Would I ever consider smoking again? NOPE

Gday its NOPE for me C

Good morning fellow NOPErs. I hope you all have a lovely smoke free day. Today, down under, we celebrate Meals On Wheels day. So to all the volunteers, and there are over 75,000 of you who cook the meals, and deliver them to our elderly we say thank you. The cost of 1 year of meals is the same as 1 day in hospital so even the gift of your time to give some old coots the independence to stay at home is a gift you are also giving to the rest of society too. For those who don't know the meals on wheels delivery ladies and gents don't just drop of a meal they do a welfare check and also give a daily social contact to elderly clients who are often housebound, isolated and alone. NOPE....cos grandma hated smoking, just sorry she missed a smoke free me. TOPIC OF THE DAY: toe tappers

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Gday NOPE count me in C

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I hope you made it through Daisywheels...there is no crave, no drag, no smoke that is worth you. I pray you strength of mind today. Please know that we all have to crawl through out own personal river of quit sh*t before we come out the other side. Dirty, humbled but free! Smoking is not an option today!

Nope not easy, but we can do this !!!! I am only day 3. Agree with stay busy, ice water, puzzles, cleaning anything....just don't smoke!

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I"ve just now started watching (streaming?) The Crown. What a wonderful show. Gorgeous furnishings and landscapes. Talented actors abound. They smoke. So much smoking. Somehow watching this period piece vs something like ... Singles or Reality Bites...makes the smoking so -- dare I say-- less common and more glamorous. The very trait execs and advertisers honed in upon and perfected. I know the King died of cancer, Winston Churchill suffered the strokes. I would be lying to you all if I said I watch this show without the noticing the amount of smoking and longing just a bit. A teeny bit. But I will never ever smoke again. I fear I will always yearn when it is depicted as being expected and accepted. I am confident I will never smoke again. I am confident I will always have the "what ifs.." on the cusp of romanticising the cigarette. What if I take just one drag? What if I take just one cigarette? What if I take just one pack? What if I take just one carton? What if I take one month, one year,...one decade to restart my quit? What if I die? How will my child be? I know I will never smoke again, I accept that I will never smoke again. I accept the moments of longing for it, The Hit. I accept I may always be temped. I accept and know that I am stronger. --L4L

Congratulations @TAMMYB9597 on being 6 months smoke free! Well done Tammy. 50% of the way there to your first year of freedom. It would be great if you could pop in and give us a update on how great you feel to be six months quit. Make sure you do something special to celebrate.

This wisteria was given to me by a student on my bus, as a gift of thanks. I have had it for 15 years now and look forward to it blooming every year. My husband has had to build two different trellises for it because the vine has become so big. Just thought I would share - bopping around the site trying to keep my mind off that crave!

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Whispers and Boo...make a good team !!!

Another session of Clubercise..... I'm actually following a few steps now....instead of looking like a headless chicken...all I've got to do is get my arms going in the right direction too....but it's fun....

Ran 4 miles only today cause it was starting to rain.....what is up with everyone? Lisa

Hey jo, good for you reaching 9 whopping months. I got us some nibbles, I hope you like em

Bump for newbies who may have trouble with the 'forever/ever' part of NOPE. NOPE one crave at a time, one day at a time. You will succeed.

Oh yes, craves during the beginning are pretty rough. I am not sure if they ever go away entirely but they do decrease as time goes by. At least you relapsed after a couple days instead of throwing away several week, month, or year quits like some knuckleheads out there. Something that someone told me that helped me in the beginning. We were talking about God knows what and, she goes - "I have GOT to have my ambien" Of course she is not hooked on it. Riiiiight. How that related to my smoking habit was this - I thought, "Am I that dependent and desperate for tobacco? Am I that much of a slave to it?" Then I thought - Holy crap that is pathetic! I decided to tell the craves to go to hell and starve. Screw that, I would power through any struggles just to break free from that (string of vulgarities) smoking habit. It could go screw itself.

Daisywheels Some people say it's all about your state of mind and the urges only last a minute. My reality was different. I couldn't get my mind to believe the urges were minor and temporary. So, I put on my big boy pants, told the urges to F off, and rode it out to eventual freedom and healthfulness. Just trying to say, no matter how strong and sustained the cravings are, you can get past them with determination, knowledge and above all, time. It's worth the effort.

Don't worry Fluffy... that rat was probably Longshanks in a past life and Karma is just using you as her b1tch to give him some comeuppance, and at the hands of a wee Scottish lass no less, and a fluffy one too.

Here! I almost missed roll call!

That desire to stop feeling like a junkie is a great start, it is about you being in positive control of your life. Surprisingly the money side of things seldom comes into it as a good reason to quit, simply because we always seem to manage to get by and if it is mostly about that and circumstances change, well then there goes most of the motivation. Focus on that control you want, focus on hating that feeling that nicotine is leading you a not so merry dance and that cigarettes are going to damage you in some way no matter what lies we tell ourselves about feeling well. This is just the way to go about this Daisy. Proud of you right now!

Repeat after me I will not start over, this too shall pass! I will not start over, this too shall pass! I will not start over, this too shall pass! I will not start over, this too shall pass! I will not start over, this too shall pass!

Daisywheels, hi and good on you for posting. You see the kind of crap cigarettes deal you. Right here, right now is the kind of shit the addiction pulls. First of all, plenty of cold water, the colder the better and you need to learn to breathe in the kind of way that mimics how you would have done. As Boo mentioned the deep breath in 4 seconds, hold 4 seconds and long, long exhale will help. What are your reasons for wanting a smoke free life?