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So who's Ivy? My Mom! She's 98 years young today and still living on her own in a 3 story house. So, what's the connection with this smoking forum? It's not just because she's my Mom and she's awesome but, she smoked for roughly 20 years back in the day when the majority of people smoked. I can still vaguely remember her and my father smoking when I was a young kid. They both quit the cigarettes at some point but my Dad took up cigars then - they finally did him in or at least contributed to his demise significantly. My Mom ended up having battles with 2 different forms of cancer probably 30 years apart from each other. She beat it both times so, there you go if you are looking for inspiration to begin your quit or maintain an established one 98 and still fit as a fiddle, relatively speaking is clearly doable . Her biggest issue is her hearing. I was never aware that her TV volume button went to 70 until the last time I visited her place. No wonder she rarely answers the phone when I call her She refuses to get a hearing aid because she says; "those are for old people"!

So who's Ivy? My Mom! She's 98 years young today and still living on her own in a 3 story house. So, what's the connection with this smoking forum? It's not just because she's my Mom and she's awesome but, she smoked for roughly 20 years back in the day when the majority of people smoked. I can still vaguely remember her and my father smoking when I was a young kid. They both quit the cigarettes at some point but my Dad took up cigars then - they finally did him in or at least contributed to his demise significantly. My Mom ended up having battles with 2 different forms of cancer probably 30 years apart from each other. She beat it both times so, there you go if you are looking for inspiration to begin your quit or maintain an established one 98 and still fit as a fiddle, relatively speaking is clearly doable . Her biggest issue is her hearing. I was never aware that her TV volume button went to 70 until the last time I visited her place. No wonder she rarely answers the phone when I call her She refuses to get a hearing aid because she says; "those are for old people"!

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Really happy to see you are still fighting the good fight Wantsit! Every one of us deserves to find their freedom from this addiction

Is there anything in particular that you can identify that made this one work for you Weegie?

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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

What was the question?

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

Lilly, good people here have tried to help you both on and off the public forum here for quite some time and you have shown no real willingness to make a serious attempt at quitting this horrible addiction that will one day likely affect your health in a very negative way. We are people too and all of us have chosen to quit and have done it successfully through sheer hard work and commitment. Those are the things people here have been trying to guide you to. Knowledge about how to quit this addiction. YOU must do the work though and you haven't done that! People get frustrated when they pour their hearts into trying to help someone who just doesn't seem to get the importance or urgency of quitting smoking. That's why you are now seeing people blowing off some steam. They want to help but YOU are not doing your part. Stick around if you are truly ready to work at quitting because there's no better place to be but if you are only 1/2 in, don't bother because it will not work. That's the plain truth of it.

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

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There's other options!

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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