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    18/03/2017

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  1. Hey thanks quit buddies. I saw this thread and it feels like it's my surprise birthday party! 5 months, who would have ever thought I'd have achieve that, not me that's for sure. CELEBRATE!
  2. Hi Dee, the physical rewards of not smoking are great, it’s good to remember them and remind others too. I'm on some sort of no-nicotine high lately, but maybe it's the exercise! Yeah DoreensFree, we’re catching the quit train to energy city! You just don’t realise when you smoke how much it stops you doing other things. PeaceTrain, You can definitely look forward to better times coming. It feels like the brain haze clears a little bit more each passing month. I think after about 3-4 months it somehow starts getting a bit easier, sort of like nicotine gives up on you a bit, and you start thinking, oh well even if it’s hard some days or I still think about smoking a lot, this is already much better than smoking. The best thing I’ve found recently is you start to get these times where you just feel joyful for no other reason than you are a non-smoker! The feeling starts to happen more often and it’s so lovely. I wonder if that is us reclaiming our dopamine brain receptors or something like that. Nicotine had hijacked them all and they weren’t available for any other things, and then they slowly start to heal and one by one they start firing naturally again and shout out to share their joy of existing free from chemical enslavement! That is what I like to picture happening whenever I have that feeling. But it gets better so slowly it’s hard to see the changes day to day. The world is slowly becoming fresher and clearer, or something like that. It’s like the lies of nicotine addiction cloud your vision of the world and little by little it goes away. Don’t know if that makes sense but I know what I mean Thanks Boo, that inspires me to do more moving and get fitter and stronger! Hey good on you BKP. 40 floors sounds like a small mountain or something! Smokers and stairs don’t get along very well.
  3. Hey Everyone, Just realised it's been 3 months since I posted here! Where did that time go? You guys helped me back in June at about 2 months quit and now I'll be 5 months quit tomorrow! Woo Hoo! Go me! I've been in my garden a lot lately. Digging and planting and burning off the accumulated wood that came floating down in a flood a few months ago. I would never have been able to do this much physical work as a smoker. And doesn't it feel so good to exercise! Instead of feeling like you will have a heart attack, it makes you feel stronger! You puff and breathe deeply but you don't cough. I'm celebrating how fresh the world is. Isn't it wonderful being a non-smoker. How are you guys doing?
  4. Thank you Doreensfree, Beacon, Boo, Reciprocity, Nancy and Sazerac. I’m still on the quit wagon and feeling much stronger since getting pepped up by all this positive talk. Nicotine’s influence is so sinister. It whispers to you from a dark hiding place in the back of your mind, and affects you by almost unconscious suggestion. When you bring it out of the dark and say it aloud, it sounds as crazy as it is. If I needed to find a way to avoid a mild craving that happens for 10 minutes every few days, the solution is definitely not going to be - put some nicotine into your body. Because that would be as silly as avoiding a mild infrequent craving by exchanging it for a strong craving that nagged you every hour, and started screaming at you after 4 hours. And then it would take me 2 months and 18 days to get back to this wonderful mild infrequent craving I’ve worked so hard to achieve. Next time it happens I’m going to enjoy it for what it actually is – a milestone along the Road to Freedom. You all helped me remember what a lovely journey it is.
  5. Hello fellow quitters, I smoked my last cigarette 18th March, so over 2 months now. I should feel more proud of myself than I do really. For a year or so before I quit I had failed on the first 3 days so many times I believed I was imprisoned in the addiction for life, but here I am. It's been a slow, time dilated, not too easy 2 months but I've never thought I would actually smoke one in that time, even when it was nagging me a lot. That is, until the last week... The last week there has been about 3 occasions when I felt like I might actually smoke one. You know that thing that happens where the nicotine talk in your head starts making logical sense and smoking actually seems like a good idea? Anyway, I don't want that to happen so I thought I better find some quit buddies to keep me motivated and sane. Cigarettes stink right? I wouldn't even like one if I did smoke one, right? I'd feel so bad and tricked by nicotine if I did smoke one, right? I don't need them for any reason at all, right? They won't make me feel less depressed, or less stressed, or make my life better in any way, right?. I never even liked them and they are just a nasty dirty little addiction, right? I already feel better having typed this and saying it out loud makes the nicotine lies sound as crazy as they are. But if anyone wanted to give me a bit of a pep talk and keep me safe for a while longer, I'd really appreciate the help and support right now. Looking forward to meeting you... Sez

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