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Sounds like you will have no trouble enjoying your first Smoke-Free holiday season! I would even say that you'll be coming here to tell us what a relief it was not to have to run off every hour or so to feed the beast! You are in for a real treat this year Linda - more time spent with your loved ones and a chance to show off the New You

Great Job Kdad! 2 months is a huge accomplishment and you are now in serious quit territory. Celebrate the occasion, reward yourself then carry on! Just think ... you can still do those crazy Dad things that Mom hates but the kid loves but now, nobody smells the stink of cigarettes on you. That's Huge

Leading by example for 7 years! Nice job Dino

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I remember you from back in May. Welcome back! I hope you have learned from past attempts what helps you and what lead you in the wrong direction. Make note particularly of the latter because you will need to face and conquer a similar situation this time too. Commit to NOPE each and every day and that's all you have to do. Just do it once a day, each and every day and you're free!

Thoughts and prayers to ALL those people affected in California! Just awful what's happening there. I certainly hope that get the upper hand on this soon.

Nope! If you don't like what's happening ...... change the picture!

In honor of your 4th Smoke Free Anniversary, I arranged to have one of the forum chicks do a pole dance just for you! Now you just need to figure out who it is. Congrats man! Fantastic quit and support to others as well for 4 whole years now

He's still posting on the Nope page so that's a good sign

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Quit now, today! Why wait? Never a better time and those first few days can be a bit distracting while you focus on beating the cravings so not a great time to be trying to start a new job where 100% of your attention is required. Get those early days over now; the sooner the better _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hi Pott! How's it going?

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Welcome aboard SCS! That's a great start you have going there As mentioned already, educate yourself about nicotine addiction by reading as much as you can here. There's a lot of great info. in the Green Pinned Threads on the Quit Smoking Discussions Page. Lots of quit smoking videos by Joel on another page. Reading about others experiences is a great source of info as well. Knowing what to expect is half the battle. There's lots of people here to help you along as well. That can be a huge help at times as well. We are all quitters and have gone through exactly what you are going through now so we get it! We also have an SOS page so if you every run up against a time when you need help. Just post up and wait for three responses. People will come running to your assistance.

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Yes it's an addiction Kdad but you are correct in your second response saying that the craving response occurs less often and isn't nearly as intense. After a long quit, and I would even say 1 year or more relapse is completely a mental thing. Yes we are nicotine addicts and those receptors in our brains are dormant but ever ready to be fully awakened if we foolishly think we can have just one for what ever reason. We can't have any. Plain and simple. As long as we understand that, we're good to go.

It's an addiction Kdad, plain & simple and we are all nicotine addicts. Weak moment years down the road - too much to drink at a social gathering & someone offers a smoke and you momentarily think; "I beat this smoking thing for years. I can have one .... it won't hurt". You have one or even a few drags and it awakens your junkie brain. A day or two later you buy a pack thinking you can just have another one. Surely you could smoke just one a day and not 20 or 30 like you used to. Within a week you're back up to a pack a day and the regret over what you did is crushing. It's really easy to maintain your quit once you have a full year or more under your belt but you must always guard against doing something foolish on a whim. People don't smoke years after they quit because they have some overwhelming urge to smoke again. It's always something that starts out very innocently but ends up badly. The circumstances vary but the story is always the same ..... I thought I could have just one!

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Good to hear Foe! Keep on going