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

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Eventually, you'll wake up one day and realize you haven't thought about a cigarette for a week (or more). You'll smell it and be ashamed that you ever put that junk in your lungs. When you come across a situation where you see someone smoking like that, take a super deep breath (deeper than you ever could when you smoked) and know that you made the right choice. Maybe use that opportunity to brag (or even preach a little bit) to the guy about quitting. I also used to wonder if I'd ever stop thinking about them. Now, it's such a distant memory that I can hardly believe I ever smoked and sometimes even forget that I did. Stick with it. You're doing it right!

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This is all that matters. I was at a backyard BBQ during the long weekend, I saw a couple of friend in a group of men at 1 corner of the yard so I went over and joined them. One guy pulled out a pack of cig, and the thought immediately crossed my mind. He saw me looking at the pack so he offered me one but I immediately replied "No thanks, I'm good". I noticed how some people tried to finish their dinner quickly so they can smoke, and I felt sorry for them because that was me not too long ago, all my activities used to revolve around the next cigarette, pathetic! Kate, I wouldn't worry about having the smoking thought, it's from almost 40 years of the addiction. I don't mind the thought because I know I won't smoke, I love my freedom from Nicotine! I'm FREE!

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I need longer arms?

Not for the last two days

I understand the addiction and I know how serious this is. I am taking it serious or I wouldn't be here

I was just reading a thread about flu shots and now I have this song in my head...

I'm with a human friend and a dog friend in Vicksburg, Mississippi watching the 'S' storm. Hopefully, won't have to change my address or my name. Thank you all for your thoughts.

Leaving your dirty socks on the floor is a nasty habit. Not cleaning the shaving scum out of the sink is a nasty habit. Smoking is a lethal addiction. You need to take this more seriously, Linda. You need to decide enough is enough. You need to decide to stop smoking and COMMIT to never smoking again. You're no more addicted than anyone else, Linda. I smoked for 30 years and was addicted as anyone and I was able to quit. You can too, but only if you're serious about it. Quit now. Quit forever. This isn't some stupid game. This is your LIFE, Linda.

He is a Cavapoo..... He Cavalier Prince Charles ....and toy poodle ..... They wanted this reddish brown colour ...which cost more ....stupid money .... But I'm sure he will be worth every penny ..

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I've been reading scary statistics about teen vaping lately, such as approximately 25% of middleschoolers in the US are vaping. Wow. If the anti-smoking campaign has reduced US adult smoking down to approx. 14%, from 40ish % in the 1950s, but teen vaping is now skyrocketing, what does this tell us about nicotine, and the anti-smoking campaign the first world has been engaged in all these decades? Does it mean we're spreading the wrong message by saying Smoking kills? Should it be Nicotine kills? Nicotine is the enemy? You can be happy without nicotine? No nicotine needed? Nicotine steals your happiness? Is nicotine happiness? Are our youth so depreased they need a super rush of nicotine...or is it just fun? For me, as a kid, it was fun. Until nicotine stole my happiness, and made me an addict.

Maybe safety pins but do you think they'll jam the stapler?

Every. Single. Thing. I loved the quitting process, learning about my addiction, how to recover from it, how to over come it...how to live again. I finally love me! My life completely changed; my husband too... quitting will always be the best thing I've ever done.

Being at an event or place and realizing that no one is smoking, and I am not either, and feeling wonderful for not being the stinky one who is wrecking it for everyone else.

Way cool, Jim! Hopefully that means you have no lasting damage!

You're welcome for me thanking you after you thanked me

You're not trying to tape with measuring tape are you?

Congratulations on two months Up In Smoke.

Well done @Midmale. Congratulations!!!

Congrats on your 2 months dip free @Up In Smoke!!!

Great job Midmale! Keep going!

Hi Kate! Random thoughts are also part of the old habit. I remember asking random people if they have an extra smoke if they happen to be smoking and I happen to not have any in me, especially when I was much younger. I get random thoughts and sometimes little craves, but they come and go within seconds and don't really worry me. If I start to dwell, I remind myself what it would mean to smoke another 10,000 cigarettes and that pits an end to it. Nearly 8 months in, the thoughts are getting fewer and fewer, and farther in between. Don't worry.

Thanks to all for the support over the years. This is a great site with good information and folks. I intend to tilt a few cold ones tonight and listen to "Those Lowdown Blues" on NPR radio tonight. Best wishes to all and again, thank you.

Congratulations midmale, two months is fantastic! Don't forget to celebrate yourself today

6-8 months in was a really rough time for me. You can get through it though. There are times where it is going to pop into your head and then it will just pop right back out. All you have to say to yourself is "I am not a smoker", it really does get that simple.

There's so much to list, the top 2 on my list are: 1) It was extremely inconvenient that every time we went somewhere as a family, I had to look for a time and place to break away from the family for quick drag as my wife and kids hate smoking. So the thing I love the most about being free from Nicotine is definitely enjoying the family vacation, now I can spend 100% my time with my family and not having to think about smoking. 2) All my relatives and close friends are either non-smokers or have already quit years ago. I've always felt a bit shameful in social events where I was the only one who needed to snuck out for a drag, it's great not to have to do that anymore.