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My first day of NOPE! Happy New Year!

Gday What happened to 2025? Certain it went quik. happy 2026 bring it on!

NOPE for today!

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Happy new year quittrain gang! NOPE!

Hello All, I'm new to this forum and I've been reading some posts which are super helpful. Just to give a brief intro about me. I have quit before, for 2 years which has been the longest. I have smoked on and off for just over 30 years. I truly wish I never started, don't we all think that! I understand it's best to go cold turkey however I have zero willpower and the patches will really help me cope. It's the act of smoking I struggle with. I had my last cigarette at 11:45pm last night. I couldn't even finish it as I was coughing a lot which hurt my chest! I think the cigarettes were giving me up! I'm looking forward to getting healthier and fitter and I know being part of this forum will be valuable. I also want to include fitness and keeping active so I can imagine I'll be doing lots of tidying and cleaning around the house. Good luck to everyone!

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Welcome @SD2026 You are doing a great thing in quitting smoking. Keep close to the board, read up on the quit smoking posts, and reach out if you need help or encouragement. It is great to have you here.

Hi @SD2026 Welcome aboard the train!! So glad you found us. I agree with everything Doreen has said. I too am on my 2nd and last time quitting, because who wants to go through the withdrawal symptoms again, not me!! What helped get me through the "act of smoking", I took cinnamon sticks and pretended they were cigarettes. I would suck in the air and pretend it was smoke that I was blowing out. I used them for probably the first couple months of my quit and besides helping, they tasted really nice, a whole lot nicer than cigarettes, that's for sure. If you don't like cinnamon, you can use cut up straws. Do whatever it takes but just don't smoke. I know it's not easy, we all know, because let's face it, that's why we are here. Stay close to this forum and do the daily NOPE pledge every day, it will help you to stay focused. There is a games section too that will keep your find occupied when you want to smoke. Read all the information on here and just remember that YOU CAN DO IT!! We have people here who have been quit over 20 years, newbies such as yourself and everyone else in between. Good luck and I look forward to seeing you on here again! Happy New Year!

Hello and welcome @SD2026 Glad you found us We support the patch Quit . As long as it’s followed correctly . All Roads lead to Rome it doesn’t matter how you there … Just Get there . I found taking the daily pledge helped , once I made that promise each day I wouldn’t break it Looking forward to to getting to know you better

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I am not going to smoke today. NOPE.

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A Happy Smoke Free and Prosperous New Year To All On The Train

Happy New Year everyone!

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Thanks so much for your advice and the cinnamon sticks are a great idea! I love cinnamon. I'll be checking out the forum as can see there are lots of tips and support here. You're right, we can all do this! Thank you so much for your support, much appreciated!

Thank you Doreen! I'll keep taking the daily pledge as can see that will hold me to account. Appreciate your advice.

NOPE for today! HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!

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G’day NOPE .....Not One Puff Ever.

Hi, I quit cigarettes 6 years ago and I’ve been using lozenges ever since. I just quit lozenges today because they were causing problems with my teeth and gums.

HAPPY AND HEALTHY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE ON THE TRAIN!!! ALL THE BEST!!!

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Take smoking off the table ..no matter what is going on . This helped me heaps

I think I may have been 9 or 10 when I smoked my first cigarette. It was with a friend of mine in the neighborhood who stole some cigarettes and a lighter from his dad and we, and a couple of other friends, each smoked a cigarette in the local neighborhood park. I felt so sick that I thought I was going to throw up. It was a truly disgusting experience. I did not smoke again (despite having smoking friends in high school) until my first weekend in college when I smoked my second cigarette. Maybe it was the freedom of being away from my parents or some belief that it made me feel part of the crowd but I slowly started smoking "socially" my first year in college. I went home that summer after my first year in college and did not smoke a single cigarette. But within a month of coming back to college my second year, I was buying packs of cigarettes and smoking on a regular basis. Never set out to become a nicotine addict but it happened. I smoked for 20 years. In the early days, I knew a lot of smokers (although I had a lot of non-smoking friends who tried to discourage me from smoking) but in my last years as a smoker, I felt a lot more isolated. What was once a "social" thing became an "anti-social" thing as the smokers I knew I driefted awayfrom or just quit. For me, maybe what I quoted from Cbdave is accurate. In the beginninng, it felt like a social thinng but in the end, it felt like a solitary thing.

Congratulations @GonSo and @Rockangel You are doing a great thing for yourself and those who care for you. Keep up the awesome work!

N.O.P.E. HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Blessings to all in 2026....

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! NOPE!!

Start 2026 with your best decision ever! Make it a truly Happy New Year!

I can imagine, Doreen! What a treat for yourself! Big hug for Ted.

@Cbdave I don’t know how anyone can afford to smoke in Australia, they are the expensive in the world

Love this positive reinforcement, @Rockangel! The other thing I do when I hear the siren song of temptation is to review the list of lies that our addict brains use to trick us into thinking that smoking is okay. Whoppers like, "Just one won't hurt..." or "I'm only hurting myself..." John Polito wrote a great essay about them. Excerpts here:

I was 11, no deep reason for smoking. Both parents smoked, all my older siblings smoked. Totally accepted in those days. I eventually became a serial quitter, so I guess a desire to quit was there. Probably wanted a magic pill that doesn't exist. I did it all - from hypnosis to Chantix - to everything in between. Always waited for the Big Excuse to go back to smoking. That excuse always comes b/c life stinks sometimes. I finally did it with unwavering determination, an extremely supportive husband and a fabulous online support group. I'm happy, proud and pretty darn healthy for an old lady. I do lots of classes at the YMCA that I would have never been able to do if I smoked. I also walk a lot. I'm smart enough to know that a smoking related disease could still get me, but that doesn't take up any space in my mind. I will forever stay vigilant. N.O.P.E.

Breathe in deeply and out.... relax your shoulders sit back in chair. Now, really get down to the root of the problem. Peel away each layer like a banana. dig deep. In 3 days the worst will be mostly over. Smoking does nothing for me except deplete my funds, and it can be that way for u too. Keep polsitive. u can do this...! Thanks, to the one who posted this JIF I changed the size. I hope that is fine.

Gday I was 13 or 14 looking for exceptance in a little country town. Most adults smoked everwhere. Inside buildings in homes at work no one would dare to ask you not to smoke. My cig of choice Winfield blue, .40c a packet of 25. TV adverts by Paul hogan ( in black and white) so they must be good. Deceided to join the navy and see the world. So I gave the cigs away to get to my best fitness to get exceptance into the navy. Once in I discovered everyone smoked. It was part of the culture. And it was encouraged. Cut price cigs on the bases, duty free on a ship. So I smoked off and on from then on. Ends up the world changed when I got in my 50s. I became expensive and inconvenient to smoke. No exceptance in this new world. No one would dare to smoke inside, if someone complained you would not dare to say anything. Stage was set for the final quit but I’d always quit for periods before knowing I could always go back to smoking. The trigger was a cold then pneumonia. I was a pretty sick puppy.i asked my doctor for champix and he said No, wait for 2weeks to heal. I was back in 2 weeks determined! Well I made it. A few complications along the way cancer, strokes, COPD all survivable because I didn’t smoke. My old Doc passed away more proud that I’d given away the cigs than survived other things. He didn’t have many patients the did give the cigs away I’m determined to say NOPE every day. I reminds me I’m still that addict and I’m only ever one puff away from 20 a day. Im pretty happy in my own skin these days. Exceptance? I except life has been what it’s been. Don’t need to tell people that I used to smoke and gave it away. The form says Smoker or Non Smoker I’ll tick the Non Smoker without a thought.