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

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Great post QG Quitting is easier when you’re doing it with friends … Stay close 🐸

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Hi @Ryan83 Welcome to Quit Train! I too am on my 2nd time quitting (first time was for 6 years), but this time it's my forever quit. Who wants to go through withdrawal a third time? Definitely not me!!😬 You have definitely come to the right place for support! We are a really great bunch of people and many are quit more than ten years, but no matter how long we have been quit, we have all been newbies at one time or another. There is a lot of really good information on this site so please check it out. A couple of things really helped me get through those terrible early days and months of quitting. What I did in the beginning is I would take cinnamon sticks and pretend they were cigarettes, sucking in the air and pretending to blow it out. It did help and plus they tasted really good. If you don't like cinnamon, you can use cut up straws. What also helped me was coming on here every day. In the beginning I vented and complained a lot, but everyone was so helpful and nice. I would do the daily NOPE pledge everyday because I believe that is a big help. Even after almost 2 years of not smoking, I still do it. So that's my advice and Best of Luck to you! 👍😀

Subtitle: The Romance Is Dead! This is the time of year when many people quit smoking. Most especially, people who quit before but relapsed are trying again. I think that is wonderful (that they're coming back, not that they relapsed). Reading their posts has made me realize that in very many cases, people relapse because they are still romancing the cigarette. That means that they still WANT to smoke even though they know that smoking does nothing good for them. They still remember those quietly satisfying evenings on the deck smoking. They remember that a-a-a-h-h-h! of satisfaction with the first long draw on a cigarette. And they want that again. And so even if they are weeks or months into a quit-- even though the PHYSICAL addiction is long gone-- they essentially choose to go back to smoking because of the pull of these romantic fantasies about how good smoking was. Well, I was the poster child for romancing the cigarette. Throughout this quit and all my previous quits (of which there were several) I always wanted to smoke. I didn't smoke-- I controlled myself-- but I wanted to smoke. All the time. Almost every day. It seemed to me that after 4 or 5 months quit, almost everybody on the board was way done with smoking and happy about it. I still missed it. And that was frustrating because my rational brain KNEW that the "pleasure" of smoking was vastly over rated and mostly imaginary. I KNEW that I was romancing the cigarette and I really did not want to go back to smoking. But the seductive thoughts were there. Maybe not every day, but often enough to be very annoying. I'm here to tell you that today, more than 9 months after my quit, I realize that I am not desiring a cigarette hardly ever! This is a first for me. And this death of the romance is not just a matter of time-- I quit smoking before for periods of up to a year and still suffered from romancing. I think that the difference this time is that I educated myself about Nicodemon's lies. It's as though my rational brain has told my junkie brain over and over and over again "No, smoking is NOT pleasurable! And such small, brief pleasure as you feel when you smoke comes at way too great a cost! Forget it!" and finally, FINALLY junkie brain is quieting down. What a relief! Now I do admit that during these "romancing episodes" that I'm talking about-- those days when I really, really wanted a cigarette-- I had to remind myself over and over again about why I quit smoking in the first place and remind myself over and over again that I wanted to quit more than I wanted to smoke. I had to FIGHT to keep my quit many, many times over the months. The urge to smoke wasn't constant, but it was frequent. Sometimes it was quite miserable. I'm still jealous of people who seemed to have it easier than I did. I often thought that I was a "special snowflake" and I had it harder than other quitters-- few people admitted that they still wanted to smoke many months after a quit. But whether I had it worse than anyone else or not, I hung in there, reminded myself about why I quit, and that I was DETERMINED not to smoke. Now, at last, I can look back over the last few weeks and realize that the romance is dead. I finally, finally am at the point where I do think about smoking once in a while but it's like a vague thought that is easily dismissed, not a serious desire. I have heard others describe this "vague thought" phenomenon many months after a quit and I finally understand what they are talking about. So I guess I am writing this to say that if you are many weeks or months into a quit and you still want a cigarette, you are not alone. What you are experiencing is real. It does happen to some people (like me, for example). You are romancing the cigarette and you have to use your rational brain, your smoking education, and your strong desire to quit to fight the urge. And eventually, sooner or later, you will turn around one day and realize that the romance is dead. You really don't have to fight to keep your quit anymore-- you just have to remain vigilant and committed. Hang in there, folks! You can DO this!

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That's one of the toughest parts of quitting ... changing up much of your daily routine and not for just a few days but establishing a whole new routine that doesn't include smoking nor cause any triggers related to smoking because it's something new to your old routine. It can be difficult and a real slog at times but it will seem completely normal to you given some time. Keep up the great work @tocevoD!

Keep up the great work @tocevoD You will get there because it's one day at a time! We all know what you are going through! Keep busy and come on here a lot!

I too miss nope365.com…not sure what happened. It was so easy to pledge not to smoke or vape for the day. Thankfully, I found this website. to

I will stay strong. I won't give nicotine the chance to imprison me again!

Congrats @SandiK!

Hi, Ryan. With this insight you are equipped to succeed! Say goodbye to the shame, the bondage, and the waste of your life force. Withdrawal may be tough but sweet freedom awaits on the other side! Keep us posted on how things go.

Well done. Attaway to keep busy and distracted!

Well done chicks 😁