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Hey! Thanks Guys & Gals!! Appreciate your well wishes. For all you other newbies here (yes, I still consider myself a newbie for now), you always wonder what it's like being 2 months, three months or whatever free of smoking well, here's where things stand for me at the moment. Month 4 was not remarkably different from month 3 for me. A little smoother I guess but no huge change that I can point a finger to. Month 1 for me was a real challenge for most of that month anyway and in particular week 1 was just horrible!! Month 2 was up and down and I never knew on waking up in the morning what I was going to get - good or bad - lol. Things smoothed out quite a bit in month 3 for me and has been that way ever since. There is still some progression but it's almost imperceptible because it is a very slow progression but quite easy to deal with now because any thoughts of smoking are so much easier to deal with now. They are not as intense and much easier to just distract your mind to something else until you just forget about whatever thought you were having. I feel I'm sort of at a halfway point now. I still have thoughts of smoking and still have a craving to smoke at times, although it's a lot weaker than what it was in prior months. But when I really think about smoking I remember the way it would tighten up my lungs and how I would have that constant annoying smokers cough and the heavy taste of smoke in my mouth and I think -Yuk! I don't want to smoke! I actually really don't want to smoke. So that's why I figure I'm half way. Half way between wanting to smoke and not wanting to smoke. Kind of looking forward to see where I'm at by 6 months actually. I think I should be in pretty good shape by then. Sorry for the long-winder post but I thought some others with only a week or 2 or 3 in might be interested in my journey so far :)

You win - lol

Hey, even I know who this is :)

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NOPE!

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(Both are fun but don't do either if you're drinking - lol) Pub Crawl Popcorn or Chips

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NOPE!

Hi ish! I saw you posting in the Nope thread yesterday and today. Keep doing that each and every day. It's important to commit to yourself every day that you will not take another puff from a cigarette - ever. There are so many benefits when you really commit to quitting and there are no good reasons to continue to smoke. Smoking is just an endless loop of feeding your addiction to nicotine and serves no other purpose for you. The craving or urge to smoke will be with you for a while just because smoking is ingrained into almost everything you do daily. Only takes a few days for nicotine to be out of your body but it takes longer to reprogram your mind to not look to smoking as a stress reliever, a reward system for good and bad events in your life. The process is unfortunately slower than we would all like but I promise you it does happen for everyone providing you do not smoke. That's the key to it all - just don't smoke. It takes guts and will power to quit but it is totally possible. As Boo said, you need to do this for yourself though, not someone else.

Chicks will be pissed - lol +0

Nice welcome back win Boo - lol

20!! Nice win BOO - Welcome Back!!

18 I'm out of insulting gifs so you're gonna have to post them up Boo lol

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horror Jet Ski or Snowmobile

Eggroll

??? Dying to know .......................

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I'm not there yet. Too new to this quitting thing but I am starting to enjoy the journey more and more now which I gather is a good thing. I know I will be where you guys are one day soon :)

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Practice sessions of this annual TT Motorcycle road race began today. Actual race sessions begin June 3rd and run through June 9/17. I suspect no one here will care about this but it is billed as the worlds most dangerous and yet exciting road race on the face of the earth. The mountain course consists of approx. 38 miles of actual roads on the Isle of Mann that are closed to traffic during the race days each year. Average speeds of over 200km/hr. have been recorded in recent years.The course runs through villages and countryside and turns this sleepy Island into a turmoil of tourists and race fans late May through early June each year for 100 years now. It's almost impossible to book accommodation for this event unless you book years in advance. Check out some You Tube vids on the "Isle of Mann TT Road Race" if you are interested.