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Hello everybody, I want to introduce myself. I used to be quite an active member on QSMB and decided to take a little break in January. Sadly, only to find out now that my beloved forum is dead. Howewer, I was lucky to find this board and really am glad that so many old acquaintances moved here too. I will surely be glad to meet everyone whom I still don't know and will try my best to give support for those struggling. My brief smoking and quit history: smoked 11 years, quit cold turkey summer 2016. This was one of the best decisions of my life. Good luck on your path to freedom and better living!

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The rain is battering down.. damn .. bring back the snow all is forgiven.... Soggy yet still sensational Saturday NOPE..

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NOPE. Southerner here. Aint a gwanna no how no way smoke tomorrow. I Dont Smoke Anymore!!!!!!!!!

aww thanks Pearlie..lots of cakes ....yum!!

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Thankyou Beazel, looking forward to breakfast in bed in the morinng and cake, gonna be a fat cat

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Hi Gordo, welcome to the QT and congratulations on your quit! What you are experiencing is pretty common in the first weeks of quitting. Try replacing smoking with something else. Something healthy like exercise or keep a bag of grapes or other healthy snack handy and when you are craving a smoke pop one in your mouth. Drink lots and lots of water too. You just have to give your mind and body time to heal. I quit on impulse like you, just decided one day to not buy them anymore. Once I'd gone a day, which I never thought was possible, I was encouraged to keep going, one day at a time. Keep close to the board. Folks here can help and there's lots of good reading/videos to help. You will absolutely come to a day when smoking just is not an issue anymore. and you are going to love the freedom!

First of all Gordo welcome aboard. You have made the best decision that you could have for yourself by quitting and 12 days into no nicotine of any sort -- great job. Yes there are differences in how each of us respond to removing nicotine. I noticed the indigestion and anxiety for the first couple of weeks and it does get better. There were times I wondered if I had was loosing it but it did get better for me. I am over two months and still have cravings but it has gotten much better and I do not want to go back again. Try some deep breathing techniques and drinking cold water it really does help. Come here often to read, learn, and speak with us, we have all gone through this and will be glad to help. Keep strong you are doing good.

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Hello, I just want to start off stating that Feb 24th was my first year smoke free. I just want to give a bit of insight on how things went and are still going. This may be a bit in length but to totally understand it has to be, sorry. I came home that night on the 24th after I said goodbye to my daughter whom was off to rehab for her own addiction. I said if she can do it so can I even after 30 years of smoking. Putting these down is nothing compared to what she was about to go through with her opioid addiction. She is now 21 just starting life. Get into that later. Anyway the first three days were out of this world. Can't really explain them but very nausea and little to no sleep. To be honest I really can't remember all of it because i think it was so horrible my brain just won't let me go back there but visions have me so scared I will never pick up a nicotine product again. Then came the end of the week and onto week two...pretty smooth feeling better and now getting 5-6 hours of sleep a night. Week three was it...anxiety anxiety anxiety like my world just caved in on me. It was to the point of what they call derealisation where nothing seemed real to me. I only ever had it happen to me once before when I got high with marijuana with my cousin. Thank God it ended after my high ended. Anyway guess what this time it didn't....here we go full blown panic..omg ...what am I going to do I can't handle this feeling, I'm going crazy this cannot be happening to me. Why won't it stop ...did I do permanent brain damage from smoking cigarettes all these years...so on and so on my brain was in full overdrive. You name the most horrible sensations I could feel and trust me I felt them. I need to call the doctor I need to do something...then I thought what's the worse thats going to happen..I may pass out and shit then I won't need to worry cause I will be out like a light. Guess what I wasn't blessed with that pleasure ...as soon as it would get close to that point it would back off. This went on for weeks. I went to counseling and it was what I figured and what the doc said anxiety at it's worse, whats going on. Here's where it gets good. To start off my quit was never planned, just shot from the hip and did it. Along with the anxiety came the complete opposite depression so bad it dropped me to my knees in tears at times. NO JOKE. Never have I felt so empty inside and lost. To start it all off I lost my mother 4 1/2 years ago and never really dealt with it. When she passed from liver cancer I grieved and had lots of smokes. Two weeks after she passed I settled the estate with smokes. 3 months later we bought a new home. Another month later I was promoted to be an Engineer for my job. Smokes like a chimney for that cause if I didn't pass I was out of a job. I passed by the way thank God. Anyway shortly after that I remember bringing the train to a stop at a red signal and having a panic attack. WTH is wrong with me I though....smoking that's it I quit. The very next day was the day and the day our daughter got her help. Through counseling and talking with others here is how it is for me. I did everything with a cigarette from the time I was 17 to 47. I mean everything ...sorry about this but after sex was the best one even better than the one with coffee in the morning. Drinking, socializing,sadness,stress...I did everything with a cigarette it was my best friend and my biggest crutch. See I am not a casual smoker or a smoker who smokes just because it makes them feel good, I am a smoker who smoked because everything in my life revolved arround smoking and I had to have it. Smokes cured me of everything...I would say FK it and light one up. Now I put them away and my world just came crashing down upon me like I never in my life experienced. Also my wife had an affair during all this because I was never home always working and just not paying attention to her. Talk about the final blow. This happened May of last year for a month and a half it went on. I found out confronted the both of them and about kicked her ass to the curb and bought a pack of smokes. I packed them and opened them and took one out. Looked at myself and said really, really ..fk this. Put it back in the pack and gave them to my wife and told her she may need these more than me at this point in time. So lets review...mother passed away....never really mourned her loss because it was to painful put many other things first. Promotion at my job. Wife affair and daughter hooked on heroin all in the past 2 years of my mother passing. Summary.....when I put the smoked down I was literally hit by everything I ignored and pushed to the side and hid with a cigarette. Here it is a year later and I will say things are better on the home front. Wife and I worked things out. She is my best friend and I pushed her away like a fool. Daughter, well she is back in detox as of yesterday and will try it all over again. This is just the tip of things in my life. What I really am trying to say is everyones quit is unique and personal. Be true to yourself you are a lot braver that what you think you are. You will walk through the gates of hell on your quit there is no doubt about it but just remember you will come out on top. I am not going crazy nor did I do permanent brain damage from smoking..lmao. What I did do was close responses to normal dopamine that take time to heal and recover. All addicts do this thats why its an addiction. I still have bouts of depression and anxiety. I am learning a whole new lifestyle. Think about it you are literaley changing your lifestyle without nicotine and its scary but it can be fun sometime. I like waking up and smelling my wifes perfume that wore off on the pillow rather than stinky smoke that wore off my hair. For those who read this thank you for taking the time to read it..I let out a bunch of personal things in my life but if you can't speak the real, then there is no sense in saying anything. I cannot give a time frame on when you should feel better from quitting but I feel fantastic at times and other times physically great but still an emotional train wreck. Hills and valleys but one day it will level out, because you will achieve goals and set a new future that you can look back upon without a cigarette. I won't say good luck because it's not about luck...IT ABOUT YOU AND YOUR WILL. My family is why !!

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I had a very stressful day today at work and was craving very bad right before I left work. Had company coming in for the weekend which didn't help as things can be very hectic. They have gone out for a while so I am starting to relax. I think I will get through today. No smoking here ?

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This is one from our original thread: When the dog has to go out in the middle of the night I pretend I'm fast asleep so that hubby gets up to let her out

I change my ticker everyday because it doesn't update and I want to see it say 1 year.

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And out came Jillar and beazel playing a game of bowling on pogo sticks.. I pit in a rain cloud

(((((Aaawww Jo))))), my fellow smokebusters, you really are going through the mill with your darling little princess, she is a teen in training (its brutal I know) and trying to find her feet, I have experience of this , I've survived 5 little darlings and all they could throw at me..haha My thoughts are she's either angry (not getting her own way or some other wee thing has tipped those oooober sensitive scales) or she's hurting (worried about something maybe at school (does she have a solo talk or something like that coming up soon??) or something as silly as not having her fav jammies, socks or something like that to hand.. Either way you are her rock and she takes out her frustrations on you because she knows you can take it and more importantly will love her NO MATTER WHAT.. (they really don't realise that there words can crush us inside as we always stand tall for them) And guess what she may well feel like a wee powder keg and need to vent too.. I won't quote as it was hidden content but Iooks to me like she was lashing out at her rock cos she knows her rock will always stand tall infront of her to protect her... NO MATTER WHAT.. Then there's the fact that you need to remember things have change since we were wee and teens are now teens way before they reach 13 not just in their thinking but their hormones kick in earlier too...Yay lucky us right. Don't be hard on yourself and do take most of what she says with a pinch of salt.. That's what us mammies are for Then we have the GO JO nearly but didn't have a fag.. Woohoo Way to go Jo, you won another battle with your nicotine demon every battle you win you get so much stronger, you might not feel like it at the min but when things settle a wee bit you will realise how strong you really are and I promise it will give you a great boost and you will be so proud of yourself as I am of you for making the right choice and holding on by your bleeding and torn fingernails hunni..xx Geez oh.. just realised I have havered on a wee bit to much.. Sorry..

Beazel I'm confused, don't all pvssies want to be eaten?

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Hi Gordo, congrats on 12 days quit. That's awesome! Everything you're going through is normal. Don't be surprised if you get a little gassy. I used it as way overdue payback lol. Getting a checkup is great for piece of mind so I'm glad you've already done that too The biggest thing to remember is we did years of damage to our bodies so it makes sense that it's going to take a while for our bodies to try to repair what we did to it. Go easy and let it dictate what it needs

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