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I am saying NOPE to smoking for today.

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I am not going to smoke today. NOPE.

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G’day NOPE .....Not One Puff Ever.

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Glad you’re back on track @Pilgrim! When that “stinkin thinkin” comes back (which it will), stay strong. You CAN do this once you take smoking off the table. We’re here to help!

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Well done on disposing of your paraphernalia @Pilgrim If, or more accurately WHEN 😑 you feel the urge to smoke/vape gets too much, please do post here. Continue with the daily pledge, it'll set you up in a positive mind frame, it does for me anything and hopefully it will for you too! We're all rooting for you, believe in yourself. The days you feel weak, post here and fight it!

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Glad you're back on the traim @Pilgrim You've got rid of all your smoking materials so that's a big step forward! As Johnny said, consider smoking NO LONGER AN OPTION, no matter what. Take the concept of feeding your addiction completely off the table because it's no longer possible for you. One day at a time will get you there!

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Not trying to be negative but when you get to where I assume all of us were at one point, smoking for years and being addicted to nicotine (whether we admit it or not), we are all nicotine addicts. My last few years as a smoker, I made multiple attempts to quit. Some quits lasted a few days, some a few weeks, but ultimately I kept fooling myself into thinking that one cigarette wouldn't hurt. Everytime I lit back up, it would take me a while to attempt a quit again because the addiction to nicotine was re-awakened. I now know that I am a nicotine addict and will be until my last day of life. That addiction is dormant now and, over time, has really became something that really didn't tempt me anymore. But I understand now that I CAN NEVER SMOKE AGAIN. If I do, it will re-awaken the addiction and I will be back to where I was on the day I smoked my last cigarette. I hated hearing this from non-smokers when I smoked but the key to quitting smoking is not smoking. Everytime you light up, it re-awakens the addiction. You can do this but you have to make smoking NOT an option.

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Good for you Pilgrim Re read all the information on the Main Discussion Board Put some tools in your toolbox to help you along Daily Pledge … stay close 🐸

What cuties!! I want one; maybe two? 😆 Come on @Doreensfree, you know you want one too!

3 weeks and still not smoking 🙃

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I am saying NOPE to smoking for today.

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I wasn't going to reply to your post because your self-talk clearly tells me you don't really want to Stay Quit. Not really. You made a "sudden conscious decision to smoke". You had time to change your thought(s) but quickly & willingly chose to smoke/vape again because you wanted to rather than to Stay Quit. You "discovered a half full bottle" and was pleased. "It's so sweet". Again, you didn't want to Stay Quit. When you want to smoke/vape you tell yourself it's okay because you can always quit again after using up your supplies rather than throwing them away or whatever excuse you tell yourself. (Is using them up more important to you than your quit? Obviously.) Your self-talk sucks as you already know and you are willing to quickly shuck your smoke free time over & over again. You need to change. Not smoking after you quit is a commitment, a free choice, a promise to yourself. (Do you keep your promises?) To quit (over & over again) is easy; to Stay Quit no matter how much you want to smoke, no matter what you tell yourself, no matter how you feel is what you need to work on. You listen to your demon self-talk too easily. You need to get off the Merry-Go-Round ... that is if you really want to Stay Quit. (I will post an oldie blog of mine from another community I titled "Merry-Go-Round" in the Discussion Section. It's doable and I still believe in you. You have to do more than "just" want it though. You have to choose it and take smoking as an option off the table from Day One to make each day a Day Won.)

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Love this! 😊

What a lovely pic to see on a Monday morning! Their orange markings are really showing now! 🥰

Only a few days late for May the Fourth... and I've rembered how to count...

@QuittingGirl I did!

I hope you took that out of your house so you can't get to it again.

Here goes. Dumping all the paraphernalia now. 20260510_125218.mp4

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I shamefully love the addiction We all thought we did You are a Nicotine Addict , but that’s not because you love it Its because the Tobacco Companies work dam hard to keep you hooked if it was just plain tobacco in cigarettes you wouldn’t smoke it , the taste would be too horrible,it’s all the sweet stuff they put in to make it more enjoyable, Watch the Documentary’s on our main page . It’s a eye opener , This was the point I hated smoking and voiced not to give them another penny of my hard earned money . Put your whole self in Pilgrim not one foot Let’s get this done 🐸

Do you think because of personal issues (mental, emotional, physical, financial, situational) that it is impossible for you to quit or stay quit? Do you think nobody really understands just how hard it is for you? Have you "tried" and "tried" and "tried" and just can't get quit or stay quit? Do you tell yourself that there is something just "wrong" with you that doesn't allow you to be successful like others? These thoughts need to be addressed (lies debunked) if you answered yes to any of these questions so you can quit telling yourself such nonsense. Until you change your self-talk, drop the helplessness, and start to believe in yourself (and do the honest work required) you'll continue to run around the relapse Merry-Go-Round "trying" to get a hand hold so you can jump on to smobriety. Educate yourself about nicotine addiction (it helps to understand why you feel the way you do physically, emotionally & mentally when you quit) and put together your Quit Kit to help you get through the quitting process. The hardest part is always in the beginning. As far as "trying" goes -- remember TRIUMPH is the word "tri" with just a little more "umph". Lean on the community. Pledge daily and mean it. You need to absolutely believe that no matter how bad you may feel at any given time in the first hour, the first day, the first week, the first month, or the first year, that it will change eventually for you, bit by bit, for the better as you go through the process if you just don't smoke. Not One Puff Ever. It's doable. You CAN do it. A whole brand new shining smoke free world awaits you once you stop running around "trying" to catch the Merry-Go-Round. Jump on instead. No more Day One's for you. Every day can be a Day Won!

I'm sorry to hear that you went back again, but my advice to you is, Number 1, GET RID OF ALL YOUR SMOKING PARAPHERNALIA! Every bit of it; cigs, vapes, ashtrays, lighters, matches, everything! Throw it out in the garbage, but not the garbage in your house or outside your house. Find a public garbage and get rid of it! You cannot have any smoking materials near you! If you want to seriously quit, you need to do this!! I know you can do this @Pilgrim, but you have to listen to all of us, and most of all, YOU HAVE TO WANT IT!! If you don't want it, this won't happen. You have to reach deep inside yourself, talk to yourself and realize that the only way you will quit smoking is, if YOU want it! We can support you and help you, give you advice and tricks to help, but YOU must want it! It won't work otherwise! I'm sorry if I seem harsh but, it's the ONLY way! Come on here every single day and do the NOPE pledge, stay close to the board, play the games, just do it!! This is my 2nd time quitting, the first time I quit for 6 years and then went back, but I believe if I found this board back then, I would have never gone back to smoking. Support is the key Pilgrim, addicts need support, and we are ALL ADDICTS!! I hope you take all of our advice, because we know exactly what you are going through!!! JUST DO IT!!!💪👍

Pilgrim Somewhere in your mind your not understanding the Law of Addiction All the information we have it hasn’t gelled. You still believe in the cigarette and it’s lies Have you read The easy way by Allen Carr it has helped millions to quit , me included. You reminded me of the little mouse on his wheel, never getting off You have to jump off and stay off Throw out all the cigs , vapes lighters etc We have a SOS . you didn’t use that Quitting takes you fully committed You can do it …I know you can , cos I did it 🐸

Sorry to hear you relapsed @Pilgrim😥 As you've pointed out, this addiction is strong and requires the utmost, unwavering commitment to leave it behind. I worry you haven't seemed to be able to reach this level of commitment and are still, somewhere in the back of your mind, romancing the cigarette (& vape) and only putting a toe into the water of quitting. The reason I say this is that you aren't willing to just destroy those cigs & the vape. You want to use it up before starting another quit. You MUST jump into your quit fully ... no matter what comes at you. It's the only way any of us can be successful. These rules don't just apply to you, they apply across the board ... to ALL of us. All of us here on the Quit Train want you to reach your goal of being smoke free for life but the primary ingredient to success is within you and you MUST find a way to bring that commitment out and make it your number 1 priority through the period of withdrawal and beyond it until you learn once again how to live your life as a non-smoker. It's the only road to success. We all must travel it; there's no shortcuts. We all stand here eager and willing to support you!

Most of us found the "Reward" cigarette to be one of the hardest ones to let go of when we quit. This is an oldie post I made in another community (on 8-30-19) which may be helpful. Delaying a smoke (before you choose to quit) is great, using distractions and other tools in our Quit Box is also great when we quit, but ultimately we need to see smoking for what it really is (an addiction) and let it go if we want to reach peace & gratefulness in our Stay Quit. Choosing to quit (letting our active addiction go dormant) is and always will be the REAL reward. You are worth REAL rewards in life (and smoking is not one of them). * * * * * * * * * * I used to see smoking as a reward … as earned ME time. The difference is I now see smoking as the addiction it really is and NOT in any way is it a reward. It never was & it never will be for anyone. Cigarette rewards are not REAL rewards. I decided that I was worth better rewards than smoking. I educated myself about nicotine addiction to change the way I saw smoking. It is a manufactured reward I needed to feed (over & over again) only because it is an addiction to nicotine. No more, no less. It was important for me to change what cigarettes meant to me in order to change ME & my perspective. Education on nicotine addiction was my ticket to Freedom. I latched onto anything & everything I could read about nicotine and addiction & Big Tobacco and found some amazing resources (whyquit.com being one of them). I no longer could close my eyes to what Big Tobacco put in cigarettes to make us inhale deeper when we smoked. I no longer could close my eyes to what Big Tobacco put in cigarettes to soothe our throats with menthol so we wouldn’t cough up a lung. I no longer could close my eyes to … etc. etc. etc. No more closed eyes for me. Educating myself opened my eyes & I could no longer toss away my denial thoughts of being an addict. I realized what I had become and what Big Tobacco had done to not only me but millions upon millions of people all in the name of $$$ for themselves. Get angry at Big Tobacco. Get angry at your addiction. Get angry at yourself for allowing it to happen. AND then begin to do something about it. Go after the REAL reward for yourself … SMOBRIETY. Quitting is not always easy but it really is simple. It was doable for me and it can be for you too. Educate yourself to change what smoking means to you, and then take your power back from Big Tobacco. AND … Don’t trade one addiction for another either by using E-Cigs/Vaping. They are NOT smoking cessation devices (no matter what others may try to tell you & that you want to believe). You really do need to quit smoking to quit smoking. Your lungs only love fresh, clean air inhaled into them. Time to really reward yourself!

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