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NOPE for today! Everyone have a blessed Saturday!

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G’day NOPE .....Not One Puff Ever.... (replace Ever with Min,Hour, Day as required.)

G’day NOPE .....Not One Puff Ever.... (replace Ever with Min,Hour, Day as required.)

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Thanks people the years have flown by so quickly well most of them (the first year seemed endless). Thanks for the gromit themed replies and for your friendship.

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Big Congrats @despair not !! Eight years off those damn smokes and richer in both health and wealth! Good for you! Celebrate the accomplishment today.

Congratulations @despair not 8 years is amazing!!! All the best to you!!

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Cogratulations on 8 years smoke free @despair not Great job!

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Congratulations @despair not on your awesome quit and thank you for all the support you've given all these years. I hope you have a great day!

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Congratulations on 8 years quit! I remember our early days together! Great job!

Woo hoo! 8 years! Congratulations!

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Congratulations DN on your fabulous 8 years … Reward yourself well

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Well Deserved…….. BRAVO!

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I love hearing this, @Kdad. It is wonderful that you are embracing your forever quit. There is an old addiction recovery mantra that says, “First it gets better, then it gets worse, then it finally gets different.” Welcome to different, my friend.

Hi, Toms, and welcome to the Quit Train! Glad to have you with us. The first few days of withdrawal can be rugged, but it gets better. Stay strong, stay busy and you’ll make it through. Remember that cravings are not commands. They are just noisy commercials for junk you don’t wanna buy. Change the channel! We’re here to help, so let us know how it’s going.

Congrats on 8 Years, that’s amazing!!

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 experiences , nothing more So there that’s the warning , take it with a grain of salt The reasons quitting is hard to do First off its hard because ,, You want it to be! And yes I think that is true most people want quitting to be the hardest thing thay have ever done in there life,,,WHY ? So they can then justify in there mind why on earth they smoked for so long,, after all if quitting was “easy” they would feel like quite the heal for not quitting years ago. So in order to live with them self in a balance of peace , quitting must then be difficult. Plus with quitting being so hard to do, it gives the quitter a boost in there personal moral on how “hard” they fought and won .. The quitter wants quitting to be hard to do , so they do not have to Accept loved ones could have prevented there suffering and death if they could have easily quit. And then there is the aspect of quitting is “so hard to do” because they have been told it was for years , and like the sentence above , have even been to the funerals that proved this to be true. If you want to quit smoking and fit in with others who quit smoking , then by god you have to suffer threw it just like they did too. After all no one gets a free pass when it comes to quitting smoking ,, “The hardest thing in the world to do” Well to each there own , but it all honesty . to stop smoking is not that hard to do it at all , In fact NO ONE that ever really wanted to Quit Smoking has ever failed.. To stop smoking dose not cause pain , where as healing from most other things in fact dose , A sun burn carries with it much greater pain then any one ever suffered to stop smoking. Mentally, a spelling test is harder then it is to quit smoking .. And lastly, why quitting is so hard to do ? , because before most ever start they go into already granting them selfs permission to fail. And then this failure only dose one thing , grants them permission once more , So this goes back to my point , quitting is only hard because most just want it that way. But I know first hand , that dose not have to be the way it is and in fact if focused on the rewards vs the discomforts , quitting hands down is the easiest thing any one has ever done for them selfs If smoking is a temp pleasure with long term consequences Then to stop is is temp discomfort with long term benefits Break the cycle , evaluate your quit honestly with out the desire for it to be “so hard” and not only will you see it is not as you have been lead to believe , but too you will learn to enjoy the process of becoming free to do all the things you once sat around and labeled “one of these days” 'jwg' Link to original post: https://www.quittrain.com/topic/10421-why-is-quitting-so-hard-repost-by-jwg/