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Ok it's not the people who swear who really annoy me. It's the small group of humans who are social parasites. There, I said it.

how about miss out on life to go off and smoke, to hide away as a 'secret smoker' what a joke. and to get those looks from people who cared. well one thing i really love is how i don't smell like a smoker no more!

I really don't like swearing. Especially one word and that is the b-word and I am generally not into name calling either and we all know how that takes many forms i don't like that people think it is ok to do something just because it is not legally prohibited... but sometimes swearing is perfectly understandable given the circumstances and absolute right of the condemned party to make a statement about what they think ...

ok, so its either comfort food of a small piece of health food store chocolate cake or a 'nourish bowl' with brocooli cabbage bron rice, carrots kohlrabi and snap peas with sesame sriracha sauce and 310 calories... about the same in terms of calories and I can have both! haha

i am a little bit confused as to where i cross the rules so if it seems stiff and awkward it is.

so Grace who is Devil Doll? And what is your opinion of Sarge! Hahahahah lol . i can say that my life improved greatly once i abandoned ship for this site. yesterday we had snow in may and a friend pretty much acted like the self-absorbed narcissist that she truly is, and today i got three calls from godaddy starting at 7:50 this morning to confirm my identity. i guess they know who i am now.

I invite everyone to visit my profile, including Sarge.

Hey Sarge! Life is simple except when it is not! Haha i had no idea this site existed till a few days ago.

Not waking up in the morning with the first thought, just as my eyes popped open, "I wanna cig"... that took a few weeks... but I do love raspberries! or just the taste of fresh, good food,

Being able to taste raspberries.

Fixing DNS issues. People who don't take care to read creative commons licenses. A snowy day in May. Ugh! Today is beautiful sunshine though.

Good for you Babs. Life gets back to normal. Some of us are never truly free of intrusions of the nicotine addiction. But we are free of the chains of addiction

I agree with cristobal. Drain the energy. It won't return as strong as before. And remember also all those blissful times yiu are free from craving or any thought of smoking. That is freedom from the day in and day out chain of nicotine addiction.

wonderful. you have to reprogram all your thoughts and associations on smoking. it is a little bit like knocking offf one pit of rock at a time or many with a chisel. we have to 'resculpt our brains'. you are making the right choices! keep going. stand tall. be proud of your accomplishment each day. i . mean give yourself a little celebration every single day. that you are a quitter and not a smoker... make a little ritual, a little space, to start to fill in all that space that smoking had in your life.

I'll just add that the problems, whatever they are, in breathing after quitting do in no way compare to the problems of breathing down the line, or just around the corner for some, in continuing to smoke.

Fear is the biggest obstacle in quitting. You . have much more to be afraid of that what you fear right now if you were to return ever, even for one puff, to smoking. You are an addict. As am I. We are both triggered for smoking these days. That is just life. You can deal with it. Find somethign else do to besides smoke! I mean smoking took up about 1.5-2 hours a day of my life. I'm not joking. Like add up all the time it takes you to smoke. And then do something esle to focus yourself for 1.5-2 hours a day and you will be fine! Trust me.

I also often switched to Lights, Marl. Lights, thinking they were safer. You weren't silly, johnny5. We were both conned like a lot of other people by the cigarette makers into this lie. It turns out people just mostly inhaled deeper to get their fix. There was nothing safe about those cigarettes even though they measured lower on tar and nicotine when connected to a smoking machine... Apparently it is now illegal to use terms like "light", "low tar" and "mild" on packaging in many countries. Insane costs to the addicts, the users. Yep... Insane profits for many other people who profited. I remember that testimony before Congress when all the CEOs of the major tobacco companies each testified under oath that they didn't believe cigarettes were addictive.

I was also a Marl. Red smoker. They were $14.50 CAN when I quit. Now I can get massages and physio and a gym membership for that money to help recover from all the damage from smoking. Best part is not waking up in the middle of the night or early morning because of nicotine withdrawal and going outside into the garage for my feeding, or worse realizing I had run out of smokes and driving up to the corner store at 3 am to buy 2 packs. It looks so pathetic in retrospect. I'd give my smokes away if someone asked. Now when I see a smoker sometimes I feel this tug (not acted upon) to go up and talk to them and tell them that it is possible for anyone to quit...

I don't know what came first, the addictive personality or the cigs. Sometimes I wonder if starting smoking in my teens turned me into an addictive personality...

Have you had breathing issues before or is this a complete first?

Hey Feely, I also went to bed early and spent a lot of time reading quit smoking materials, Joel's videos on youtube and all the quit smoking material I could relate to on the web. Keep posting. There's no other way except to slog through it one day at a time at the beginning, but one day you will notice that it was not too bad, the day was ok, the cravings were tolerable, your mood was up and so on. Be sure to give yourself a pat on the back for each day you stay quit and make an effort to focus on positive 'can do' thoughts.

yesterday was a massive trigger day. Today is better. Progress on my project is slow but steady... Keeping busy so am triggering much less today. I have felt threatened in a major way day-by-day drip, drip and then not having any ability to load a page after being warned several times about being banned, yeah really and finally decided to act decisively so that is good. I feel really good about this.

Second that.

Thank you for setting up the forum MQ.

It's hugely ironic to me that once I got in some kind of trouble with snarkiness and hints of possibly more by commenting that I couldn't search to find some of my favourite posts by a person called Sarge because he was banned over there as well as just posting a link to another post of someone else who was also banned... It's good to have more than one forum for quitters to go. I don't believe in the long term coupling a for profit motive with a free quit smoking forum is sustainable so am glad to see that is not the case here.