MarylandQuitter

Welcome! Yes, you're still quit if you're on the patch! The goal is to get off of nicotine completely and as quickly as possible. This is a drug addiction so it's very important that we keep nicotine out of our bodies. Once you quit the patch, you'll still go through some withdrawals, which you're delaying by using the patch. However, you're not smoking so that is key right now. Please just plan on getting off the patch as soon as you can so you can put an end to the cravings sooner than later. Of course it's normal to crave a smoke but the more time you put in, the craves will diminish and eventually go away altogether.

Pre-respond to your own SOS!

If your referring to the block on the right of the forum, simply click on the topic and it will take you to the last post in that thread.

You can do the same thing. Always click on the date of the last post and it will bring you to the last post in that topic. From there, you can simply scroll up to read anything prior that you may have missed. If you want to read all of your unread content, take a look at the screenshots below. Click on the activity tab and choose unread content. There will show a list of the topics of your unread content and it shows who posted last in it. Click on the how long ago the last post was added and it will take you to that post. Again, just scroll up to read anything prior to the last post in that topic. There is also a screen shot showing this. Hope this helps.

Welcome to the forum! Stay active and please this site and all of us to help you.

Yes, simply click on the date under the username of the last poster.

It takes a full year to experience "life" without smoking. What you experienced is normal. Personally, I think if actually had a lighter, you wouldn't have smoked anything. I'm pretty sure about that. Everything we did as smokers revolved around smoking, everything.

NOPE!

I went through some hard times nine months into a quit and made the choice to smoke. I smoked for about a week and quit. This time, smoking didn't help, I felt guilty for relapsing and I didn't enjoy smoking in the least bit. I remember talking to a fellow-quitter friend while I was driving home from work and I was telling her how I was kind of scared because I felt the addiction stronger than I ever had in the past when I had quit. She said, "well just quit then". Okay, so the next evening I smoked my last cigarette and put it out at 7 PM. I'm now 4 1/2 years quit and have been through some very tough times since and not once did I consider smoking. What's pleasantly surprising is that when stress comes, as it always does, smoking doesn't even enter my mind whereas in the past (especially when I was a smoker) it was the first thing that entered my mind. Not anymore. I strongly suggest that you quit immediately. At this time tomorrow you'll be one day quit and the very instant you put out your last cigarette, you're a non-smoker! Don't delay because the longer you wait, the longer you're a smoker. Don't be that person 10 years from now wishing you'd have quit now.

What you're doing now is putting time in between your last cigarette and the rest of your life. As with most things, they get easier with time and living without smoking is no different. In fact, each day you should treat as a milestone because it is! Each and every day is a victory, especially at the beginning. Reward yourself for making such great progress and sticking to your commitment to quit smoking.

Communication from Joel regarding notsmokinjo's comments about 1% success rates using nicotine gum: Hello everyone: There seems to be a little bit of confusion as to what I actually have in a couple of my videos. I have never said that only 1% of people who use nicotine gum quit successfully. What I have said is that according to Gallup polling done in 2013, only 1% of people who have successfully quit smoking credited nicotine gum as their quitting method. Here are two videos that I have that discuss this issue: http://whyquit.com/joels-videos/whatever-you-do-dont-quit-smoking-cold-turkey/ http://whyquit.com/joels-videos/gallup-poll-most-quitters-credit-cold-turkey/ Here is the direct link to the Gallup poll's page regarding the survey: http://news.gallup.com/poll/163763/smokers-quit-tried-multiple-times.aspx Two other videos that I have that relate to this current discussion are http://whyquit.com/joels-videos/i-quit-the-wrong-way/ and http://whyquit.com/joels-videos/relapses-are-not-determined-by-how-you-quit-smoking/ Also related to discussions raised in this string is the page http://whyquit.com/joels-videos/is-cold-turkey-the-only-way-to-quit/ for it specifically talks about the fact that some people do quit by means other than cold turkey and those people should not be made to feel that their quits are in some way diminished because of the way they did it. Also, regarding the use of statistics that are often quoted as to an individual's chances of quitting, check out the page http://whyquit.com/joels-videos/breaking-free-from-nicotines-grip-is-more-doable-than-most-people-think/. Hope this clarifies the issues at hand. Joel

Nope!

Every now and then there's a little hiccup with all the different experiences, opinions etc. Tolerance is the key to any relationship, especially when it comes to tossing a bunch of people into the big salad bowl.

NOPE!!!!

Perhaps something needd tweaked in the program. I'll look into it.

Please let me know the details for your ticker and I'll add it for you.

This new video explores the question that some former smokers find themselves asking of how long it could take them to get re-addicted to nicotine after they have been off smoking for a long length of time.

Congrats!!!

Thanks for sharing your story, Stzr500. What an amazing job to stay quit with all of that on your plate to deal with; all of it major, major life issues. A lot of us say, "if I can do it, so can you". However, you can say this and send a powerful message. Your story is the perfect illustration that no matter what happens in life, smoking doesn't fix it and certainly is no help is coping with it.

When you create an image gallery, the pictures can only be viewed by members, not guests or "lurkers". When you create your own gallery, the pictures will stay in your gallery and will not automatically show up on the message board, or "public forum". Once in your gallery, the pictures can be easily inserted into any of your posts. Blogs: You can now create private blogs, delete blog content, moderate your blogs etc. Full permissions have been enabled for members. If you create a blog that is not private, it is still only able to be viewed by members, not guests. If you create a private blog, it will not show up on the main page. SOS's: You can choose to follow the SOS board and each time a new thread is created, you will get an email alert. You can see all the topics which you haven't read by clicking the "unread content" link below in the screenshot. The second screenshot is what the page of unread content looks like. This is what the page of unread content looks like. Simply click on the date under the last post and it will take you there.

You should now be able to see who is in chat and or how many people.

You all are all too kind but thank you very much! This is truly a labor of love and my little way of paying it forward as there have been many people who have helped me throughout. This place will go nowhere. Especially since I Trademarked our name over two years ago.

Awesome, Jimmy!!!!! Congrats!

Way to pay it forward!