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6 months is awesome Aine! Congratulations!

the beautiful Leanna! 2 years is looking wonderful on you love! Great job...and thank you for sticking around to pay it forward. You rock!

agreed! You can do this! get back here!

great job Sandy!! You've got this!

wait!! I lied...one more...loved loved loved Bryan Adams

last one! sorry!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ktRsl2hAPhY

oh yes...the 80's...babs was a teenager still love this song

oops...i missed this!!! Yay Tracey! Great Job on the quit and the love connection...awesome!!

Great Job Rez! You are a winner all around...a rock solid quit and a beautiful lady by your side who you would never have met without it. Awesome!!

good one!! haha....glad to see new faces in the Jib Jabs!!

hi! welcome to the Quit Train Dental Floss...happy to have u here..and congrats to you on your milestone so far! It gets better!

atomik...you are doing fantastic and right where you need to be. Quitting is a process and as long as you continue to do the things that point you in the direction of remaining smoke free...you will do fine. All these skills you are learning...coping skills...you are making a fine collection for yourself in your tool box. This tool box you will have for the rest of your life and when you need to...you pull out the tool you need for the issue that you are currently dealing with. That's how it's done. Know what we as smokers had in our tool box? A cigarette and a lighter You are doing awesome! Keep moving forward.

There have been discussions recently about NOPE and how it doesn't resonate well with some. I understand that feeling. When I was fresh in my quit the first few months, I wanted to believe those that have quit before me. I wanted their sense of peacefulness and satisfaction with life without the cigarette. I just couldn't imagine it and the daily restlessness that was occurring made it even more difficult to wrap my brain around it. I tend to have a scientific mind. I want proof of things. I had a hard time just saying NOPE... But one thing I knew. These people weren't stronger than me. They weren't special. I was not more addicted nor was my circumstances any more unique than theirs. I have had tough times in my life..just like them. So, I decided....I am just going to "go with it". I will put all my faith in NOPE (blind faith). I will eat, sleep, drink, laugh, and walk NOPE. ( a few times when I craved, I would actually go for a walk and with each step, over and over I would chant the letters N.O.P.E, not one puff ever...smoking is not an option. Over and over...over and over....(took a peek; no--still unsettled, still not feeling it) so...continue...NOPE, NOPE, NOPE, NOPE Finally finally finally....around the 6th month..i started to really feel it. I got it. Doesn't mean I always felt it...the first year was a struggle at times...I'm not gonna lie...but once i "got it" I knew I would "get it" again. Just got back from a vacation. I am more than 2 years quit. Vacation was peaceful and relaxing...sometimes too peaceful and boring at times....those were the times i would have filled the void with a smoke. Especially because the person I was with smokes like a chimney and was constantly out on the balcony puffing away. My cravings this past week were incredible. No weaker than they were 2 years ago. The difference is...I know better. I know it's a trick...I know it will pass...and I know I will be a happier, healthier person because of it. So.....I went for a lot of runs to burn off that energy. It worked...I came back a non smoker...and 3 pounds lighter! :) So you see.....it matters not how long you are quit. There are people who have quit for 15 or 20 years who still want a cigarette at times....and some of them..because they are not educated about nicotine addiction...they actually stayed quit "in spite of" themselves and their thinking. They think they gave something up. When in reality, they escaped. I am grateful I am not one of those people. Could you imagine refraining from doing something you desperately want to do for 20 years...day in and day out?? no....not me..and if that was the case....I would never have quit smoking. I would have resolved to stay a smoker for life. It really is simple...it really is easy...and NOPE is really truly the way for me. It really is. Easy peasy :)

This place is awesome and has been proven over and over again that good support can be given...firmly, softly, tough love, hand holding..it's all done here..but all done with genuine concern for their fellow man. Those that enjoy that drama might like to call the drama "keeping it real" I prefer to call it "feeding your ego" That's just not done here...we support, we have fun, we disagree, we even spank eachother now and again..but it's done civil. It's done with respect. This place rocks because of all of you. I am forever grateful to MQ for so many things..and he knows it. Quit Train is one of them...but it's you guys that make this place what it is. A safe haven to turn to..and wow..turns out we aren't cookie cutting stepford wives after all, imagine that!! B)

great job Nay Nay!! Freedom rocks!

did you get it on video? Can we get a utube?

Congratulations Footballmom! welcome to the Quit Train! :)

great post! thanks bug!