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I know you are under a mountain of glitter, baby ! Please surface and get some love . S

@jillar The loss of your archives is a terrible loss to you, to all of us. I am so glad you and most of your gang are here creating new ones.

Congratulations Linda on your FOUR months of Freedom ! It has been wonderful having you here and sharing your quit with you. Please celebrate wildly ! You are a hero.

Congratulations, Fab, on your ELEVEN months of Freedom. Rewards are in order !

Congratulations Dragonsfancy on your TWO months of Freedom !

Congratulations, Wantsit, on your FIRST month of Freedom. Your first of endless months of freedom. Reward yourself lavishly, you are doing great work.

I was wondering where the Kitty Cat Woman was.... Happy TEN months of Freedom !

Congratulations, Wren, on your ELEVEN Months of Freedom !

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Oh! I'm so relieved you are safe. Where are you going to settle? Stop in and catch us up on your beautiful nicotine free life!

Congratulations on your EIGHT months of Freedom, Albert ! Your presence on the NOPE thread is really encouraging.

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Congratulations on you your TEN months of Freedom, Catlover ! and thank you for your support here. You are the best Kitty around !

This is the best news ! You will have many more days like this then months and years! Stay focused and reward yourself.

@Runfree are you okay?

Happy birthday Martian! Hope you have a splendid day!

tie breaker here. I will only eat raw from the garden uncooked peas but, can eat green beans every way but canned so hummmm....which ? Green beans have my vote, there is more opportunity for me to love green beans. Dilly Pickled Beans, sauteed with garlic and almonds, raw in garden, steamed, fried,

Others in my realm may disagree, but I am not a natural psycho. Eccentric, maybe...unconventional, for sure...creative, happy, supportive and positive are closer to my modus operandi. I felt psycho because all I could think about was the issue of smoking. I wasn't going to smoke but, addiction thoughts/actions and the addict's voice in my head took a long time and effort to clear. The body memories took their time too but, considering I smoked for 40 some odd years, smoking everywhere/anywhere/all the time/doing anything/everything one year of work wasn't too long or arduous to attain my freedom. In fact, I got off light. I'm pretty healthy. I can breath. So, my cray was directly associated with addressing my nicotine addiction and disappeared when I had reclaimed most of the receptors in my brain, freeing my dosage of dopamine from the association with nicotine.

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Welcome to the site, Mrs Fowkes. @Nancy is absolutely correct, When you want to quit, you Can quit. When you commit to Not One Puff Ever you can have a successful quit. You may find this post helpful Ten Ways To Effectively Use This Forum

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Thanks, Boo, for a great, thoughtful post. I was pretty hard on myself during the first year of my quit, 'free-ing my head' was arduous at times, long and weary times. I knew I would give it a year but, sometimes the slog made me feel crazy, a self-induced sado-masochistic crazy. My addict's voice would wheedle, 'why are you punishing yourself ?' It took a lot of education to extricate the truth from my addled, addicted brain. Sometimes, with the 20/20 vision of hindsight, I think that I should have/could have made it easier on myself and maybe some of that is true but, the point is, I built myself a rock solid quit and that is all that matters. I don't Smoke. I won't Smoke. NOPE-ly yours, S