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I haven't heard of NOPE 365, luckily you can still post your daily pledge on this platform, it really does help! 😊

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Thank you! I’m here because NOPE 365 isn’t working. I need a new platform to post my accomplishments and do my daily pledge.

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Nice to meet you @Meg! Thanks for sharing your story!

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@QuittingGirl I've heard of smoking dreams! The mind playing tricks on us. It must have felt so strange when you first woke up!

Hi @Meg! Welcome! 17 years smoke free is an amazing accomplishment! My first time quitting I used Chantix and it really worked, but unfortunately after 6 years I went back to smoking. This quit which is my last quit I started with the weaning method (which didn't work at all), and then just went cold turkey. It was very difficult in the beginning but I got through it. You are right, one puff will lead to two, then three and then before you know it, you are back to smoking. We are addicts and we cannot have even one puff! I had a dream last night that I went back to smoking! YIKES!! When I woke up I really thought I did, but then realized that it was just a dream thankfully! Thank you for sharing your story and you are welcome on here anytime!

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Welcome @Meg and thank you for your inspiring post! Congratulations on 17 years nicotine free! What an amazing achievement. I have seen a few people mention the website QuitNet before. I do like the sound of the daily updates and it can be eye watering seeing the figures written down of how much you've saved, how many cigarettes you haven't smoked etc. You're correct in saying one puff leads to two etc. I'm in the early stages (2 weeks and 2 days smoke free so far) but I know if I had one puff, that's it for me! Thank you for sharing your story, it really helps. 😊

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This Saturday will be exactly 3 years since I quit smoking!!!!

Hello and welcome @Meg Thank you for sharing your journey with us and a massive Congratulations on your 17 years smoke Free 🐸

Hello, I was also a member of Quitnet and to this day, almost 17 years of being nicotine free I still tell people about that website. Best information, positive reinforcement with no guilt, no judging, just great peer-to-peer chats, info and guidance. My favorite part about that website was the tracking option they had. At the beginning, you key in how many cigarettes you smoke in a day, how much you pay per pack, and what day you decided to make the quit. From that point forward, it sends you daily updates as to how many cigs you HAVEN'T smoked, how much money you HAVEN'T spent and how many days you've been nicotine free. It's like watching the money in a savings account grow, they send you your specifics every morning, it was the email I looked forward to the most. I used a drug called Champix or Chantix (it seems to work the way the new weight loss drugs work, by denying the brain receptors what they need to provide you with "pleasure") and it worked like a charm for me. It did make me a little bit passive/aggressive where I'm normally a calm person and that has stayed with me. I'm not sure if it's a result of the Champix or not but I'm willing to put up with it to be out of those nicotine chains. My calculations, very generally, are that I had my last cigarette on the morning of March 14, 2009 (9 months to the day that my mother died - I found that a little prophetic). That means, as of today, I HAVE NOT SMOKED 155,125 cigarettes, I HAVE NOT SPENT well over $93,075 (when I quit I was paying $10/pack, they're now $20/pack so I averaged it out to $15/pack for the 17 years that I haven't smoked) and I HAVE NOT HAD any relapses - not one. The other thing that I took away from that website was the acronym N.O.P.E. NOT ONE PUFF EVER! As smokers, we all know that one puff leads to two, which leads to smoking a whole cigarette and that invariably leads to a walk to the store for "just one pack" and I'll quit after that. You know you won't, so stop lying to yourself. Put your big person panties and on and run headlong into the turmoil - you won't regret it for a minute once you're done. Worked for me - I wish you luck in your quitting cigarettes journey - it's so worth the fight to get them gone from your life!!

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

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

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

🎉Happy New Year everyone!🎉

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My Bing is good at that as well.....🙄

My dog Bing, ready for Christmas.

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Sazerac Quit Date: October 23, 2013, A Good Day to be Free. Posted March 24, 2018 Deep in the archives, I found another gem from, our friend, Cristóbal Cristóbal's Quit Days % Some people are amazed that even though they may have several weeks or months quit, that they still do not feel completely "normal", and continue to miss smoking. When this happens, figure your "Quit Days %" and then you will see why. The way to calculate this is: Number of Years Smoked x 365 = Smoke Days. Number of Days Not Smoked = Quit Days. Then, Quit Days ÷ Smoke Days = "Quit Days %". --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I will go first, to be the first example. I smoked for about 30 years. 30 years x 365 = 10,950 Smoke Days. As of today, I have not smoked for 5 years, 2 months, 7 days. This period of times = 1904 Quit Days. Then, 1904 Quit Days ÷ 10,950 Smoke Days = 17.388%. This is my "Quit Days %". In other words, even at more than 5 years since my last cigarette, as of today I have been quit for only 17.388% of the total time I smoked. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now, let us take as the second example, a smoker who smoked for 30 years, and has been quit for just 4 months. These 4 months might seem like a very long time to the ex-smoker, but it is nothing when compared to 30 years. This smoker who smoked for 30 years, has 30 years x 365 = 10,950 Smoke Days. Quit time of 4 months = 120 Quit Days. 120 Quit Days ÷ 10,950 Smoke Days = Quit Days % of just 1.096%, of the total time the smoker smoked. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Smoking had a deep impact on us physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. A lot of the physical damage can be repaired in a time period of about 10 years, but some of it can never be repaired - the damage is done !!! The mental, emotional, and spiritual damage can be repaired much quicker, since all of us at one time were never smokers. None of us started life with a cigarette in the mouth !!! We all know how to live life as non-smokers, we just need to remember how to do it again. And time is what is needed for that to happen. It is my experience working with others, that how quickly one becomes very comfortable in these 3 areas depends on the person and also their understanding of nicotine addiction. The more a person understands the process of separation from the active addiction, it seems to me the quicker the good comfort levels of being a non-smoker return. What is important to understand, is that the first year as a non-smoker will be spent confronting triggers, many of them that are seasonal. Once you arrive at your first year anniversary, most people can say that they are making very good progress adjusting to life as a non-smoker. Cristóbal Link to original post: https://www.quittrain.com/topic/10007-cristóbals quit-days/

DenaliBlues Quit Date: 2/10/2022 Posted February 27, 2022 I’m a newcomer pinging in to say hello. I’ve been lurking on the site for a while, but I set up a profile today so that I could participate. Thanks for the experiences and the compassionate, nonjudgmental encouragement shared here. Reading the info and comments has helped me through some white-knuckle moments. My last smoke was 17 days ago. It was not a planned quit. I was having oral surgery, and at midnight the night before I learned that smoking through the post-op was a really bad idea. (As if all the other harms of smoking for the last 40 years were somehow a really good idea?! Yeah, go figure.) Anyway, I slammed into this quit bass ackwards… unprepared mentally, emotionally or physically. I didn’t have any tools to hand, and hadn’t thought through how to be intentional to set myself up to succeed. Just boom. But I’m trying hard to make it work. There’s more than just a dental emergency at play. I want this quit and the suffering it entails to count for something. I’ve been ambivalent about smoking for some time, have been living in denial about the consequences, and have let smoking control my life for too long. Cold turkey was not an option for me, personally. (Did that before, didn’t stick.) So I’m using the patch on a step-down system. I’m constantly fiddling with silly putty. Trying to stay busy. Doing a lot of wall pushups. Attempting to stay positive. Getting a grip on my triggers. Making lists of alternative things to do in those moments. Re-reading the science. Doing more wall push-ups. I’m struggling with feelings of despair and intense physical discomfort as my body adjusts to a lot less nicotine. But this week, on average, was a bit easier than the last. So maybe that’s progress? I think addiction likes to hide in the dark. It feeds on shame and distortions, and whispers false justifications to us. So I guess part of why I am joining this QT community is to fend off those shadows by reaching out for reinforcement, to try to fill my brain with something different. I need to banish that voice from the dark that says nicotine is my best friend (it’s not) and says that I can’t exist without my smokes (I can, and I have 17 days of evidence to prove it). Today I am grateful for having your voices in my head, instead. You are helping me to rewire. Thanks for listening and bearing witness in return. DenaliBlues Link to original post: https://www.quittrain.com/topic/17632-newcomer-check-in/