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NOPE

Congratulations Kelly!

Cristóbal was always abound my first few months on QSMB dispensing all sorts of brilliant quitting advice and support. Nothing wrong with starting the celebration early.

NOPE - never again.

Congratulations Cristóbal. Thanks for all the help that you gave me and so many others in their quits. I hope you celebrate big today.

Happy Birthday, Jane!

I have a friend from high school who NEVER would have smoked cigarettes back in the day. 20 years later, he now vapes and sees nothing wrong with it. Yeah, big tobacco knows exactly what they are doing in hooking this next generation of nicotine users, mostly kids but also adults who never would have smoked nasty-smelling tobacco cigarettes.

i don't do haiku but it's great to see beazel great job with your quit

Where I'm at, Raleigh, NC, was originally in the direct path but now it is on the edge of the storm. We've gotten a decent amount of rain and my power has been out of a little over a day but things are not bad compared to many more directly impacted by the storm. There has been 20 + inches of rain (with more on the way) in places not very far south and east of here (Wilmington, New Bern, and South Carolina is now in the path). Things aren't too bad here but the images in the below links aren't very far from me. Wilmington NC damage https://www.wral.com/weather/hurricanes/image_gallery/17841138/ New Bern NC damage https://www.wral.com/weather/hurricanes/image_gallery/17841433/ Other NC damage https://www.wral.com/weather/hurricanes/image_gallery/17843759/ CNN Coverage: https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/11/weather/gallery/hurricane-florence/index.html Prayers to everyone impacted by this big, slow moving storm.

NOPE, never again.

Congratulations Avian! Thanks for all that you have done to help others quit and stay quit! Awesome job!

Congratulations!

Congratulations!

Yes you can. If you go back to smoking, you will be miserable and always be wishing that you could quit. I used to go through that quitting and relapsing cycle and it was horrible. Stay strong and keep the quit. You will be glad you did with time.

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Congratulations Christa! That first month is the toughest. I hope you celebrate today!

Congratulations Garry! 2 years smoke free is fantastic!

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God bless America.

I smoked for about 20 years and spent the last ten years in a cycle of trying to cut down, making an attempt to quit, getting frustrated and relapsing, smoking heavily, cutting down, making an attempt to quit, getting frustrated and relapsing...you get the idea. I probably had about 20 quit attempts my last ten years as a smoker. I think 44 days was the longest quit, before this one. I had a lot that lasted less than a week or two. I look at those short quits as well intended but poorly educated. I was always giving up something I thought I loved and was not focusing on the actual benefits to quitting. Once I started to educate myself about the benefits, it became easier. Allen Carr helped me a lot as did support groups like this one. Once I started to focus on the positives and realize that the negatives were temporary, it became easier for me to finally quit.