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Ok so I hate to assume things, but i will imagine or recon instead... I am imagining this woman is probably on meth. And you KNOW she smokes cigarettes. Probably Virginia Slims because her funky ass thinks she is a "lady". Look how bad a shape she is in! Someone needs to call the trash truck! If you are a tax payer, please remember that people like her who are probably sponging off the GOVT depend on you.

Of course they talk about buying onesself something special with saved cash, celebrating or whatever. I never bother though cause i just do not deserve it

One part is that your appetite is coming back. Early in the quit a lot of us tend to eat more than normal. Of course over a couple months or less, your appetite will level itself back to normal. There are many possible W/D symptoms. I think most of us experience some but not others. I know I was really hungry all the time earlier in the quit. I was also tired a lot but didn't seem to have anything else too crazy.

You know these testosterone men who are into fast cars, bikes, bully breed dogs, guns, shaving their heads and all that crap they do to look tough... What they REALLY long for in their hearts... Is to drive something like this pink VW complete with lashes and name the car "Daisy".

I heard my name.

From a time long before I ever thought of smoking, I was taught that the first three days were the worst for breaking a smoking habit. I think my dad said that when he quit back in the 80's. So when i finally got serious about quitting back in October, I already had it in my mind that if i could make it through three days, nothing would be as hard. Of course about the time i started here and was saying my quit wasn't that bad, no one wanted to hear that. They probably relapsed anyways. You are a week in. It HAS to be easier by now. Do not be one of those who goes back to smoking. If you do, you are back to square one and will wish you were still a week into quit. Also, do not have "just one". There is no such thing as "just one" as most of us know from experience. Also when telling people (especially real life acquaintances) that you are quitting smoking, you get to be taken serious ONE time. If you relapse and claim to be "quitting" later, everyone will think, "Let us see how long it lasts this time". You are making headway. Don't blow it.

At 10:45 one should stop the video so they do not have to hear "like and subscribe". Not sure if it's just me but i feel violated when videos say those words.

At least you are getting the bad part over with. You made it four solid days so you have proven to yourself you can get by without a cancer stick. If you light up, you will be back to square one.

Lin-Quitting, it is awesome you are about at a year. You cannot relapse now, you see, reciprocity will be helping clean. He is going to use YOUR quit as an excuse to wear his French maid outfit while cleaning. If you relapse, he may not get that chance. THEN how would you feel?

Reci, yeah so did I. I seem to be one of the members on a few forums who keep the mods in business.

Just funny cause a winter problem caused Robert's hassle and his last name is Winter. It would be like if someone named John Meth got arrested for drug possession. Maybe they need to rephrase that expression "(something) is my middle name".

If this place hasn't thrown my smart ass off yet, then I think few others really have to worry.

Is that real? I mean the guy's name - Robert Winter?

We have heard the NOPE thing, or worry about our health, it costs too much, not wanting to miss moments in life because we had to step out for a smoke... What about non-typical thoughts? I never thought the same things I read or hear so often. I had my own thoughts and they caused me to get seriously pissed off at the cigarettes. Some of mine were like this - Being a so-called "smoker" just wasn't me. Yeah i smoked but the label "smoker", didn't fit. A "smoker", as I imagined it, was not someone who presented well but more someone like the 45 year old "cougar" at the bar or the creepy drunk guy with booze on his breath. THEY are the smokers, not me. Or maybe someone haggardly looking who has given up on life. Like it is a loser's habit. In short, I was too good for the smoking habit. For several months I was thinking about quitting. Of course I was scared I would not be able to KTQ. I had failed at "quits" before, usually after four hours. All my friends smoked (like i have such a rich social life HA). Puffing and choking. Room stinking. Smoke ANOTHER cigarette. Watching someone smoke looked dumb. But seeing and smelling this, something started to accompany my thoughts of "I need to quit". It was like there was this voice in my head and sometimes when I was lighting up, it would say things like, "Hey look, dumbass is about to smoke yet again! Yeah she wants to get cancer, won't that be hilarious? Laying there begging for life through labored breath HAHAHAHA!" Or when I would go buy more tubes or tobacco (I rolled my own) it would say "Yep, better get those! God knows you might die without any cigarettes! Part of a healthy life" Also when someone dies, whoever gets to announce what killed them, they seem to have a tone of shame when the cause of death was smoking. When I am dead and gone, I don't want someone to say, "yeah she died of smoking". No, I want it to be something respectful like "Yeah, she was beat to death cause she ran her mouth to the wrong person". Also someone I know who is hooked on ambien was telling me about it and said, "I have GOT to have it..." I thought, Christ on a pogo stick, am I that hooked and pathetic about my tobacco? I was embarrassed to even think of it. But about the last week of September 2017 I got pretty sick. It was hard to breathe and even harder to smoke. I knew it was a passing cold but i got to thinking, "What if I developed something bad from smoking? What would it be like to go through each day like this? Suffocating for air, wishing I had quit years ago? So I tried to quit again, only to relapse the very next day. I decided for three days, I could have three cigarettes. During those days I gave away or threw away everything smoking related except just a few cigs. Friday Oct 6th at 7:00 a.m. marked the start of a non-smoking life. So, I had finished my LAST cigarette. I had a hard plastic box I kept my smokes it, it was empty. I looked at it, said, "Good bye and fcuk you" and threw the thing as hard as I could. Several seconds later it landed on the street somewhere. I also sometimes thought, "What if I ended up in the hospital and could not smoke?" This one was totally legit because around Thanksgiving I had to go in for cellulitis. I was in there several hours but didn't need nor want a smoke. That would have sucked to be in that room for hours and needing a puff. But yeah that cold in September. It was like a warning. "Do you want to suffer like this in the future if you do not quit smoking?" It was then that I got pissed off at the habit. Today when i smell someone smoking it is a reminder of why I refuse to give in to the occasional craves. Most important I think is this - yeah some people get away with smoking for 40 or 50 years and never die from it. But me, I would probably be one of the unlucky ones who didn't even make it to age 60. What about you? Did YYYOOOOUUUU have any strange thoughts that ultimately made you quit if doing so on your own terms?

You know though, the tobacco companies hate forums like this. A place where even a few people encourage others not to smoke and KTQ. They hate it. Big tobacco loses money because of forums like this or any quit site. So whether you are from QT, QSMB, or any other, we all have this in common - We are, by NOT opening our wallets to big tobacco, telling them to cram it in their asses.

Dear Jenny, I think the next couple days are suppose to suck weather-wise for most of the nation. One benefit of cold or snowy weather that people often overlook is it keeps most of the critters at bay. Not just the snake, spider, and gator in Frezflops photo but also the bratty-ass kids, the riff raff, the mullet-havers, the douchebags sagging their pants, and the hipsters. Hipsters only go out in the snow "ironically". Or to steal LP records. So it is like take your choice - Winter weather but without critters Nice weather but WITH critters.

Not sure how I lasted five months so far. I wasn't really even expecting to last ONE month at first. Wasn't until three months that hard craves hit. That passed within a few days. I guess the way i hung onto "quit" was honestly - I am too much a cheapskate to buy smokes and too lazy to roll my own like i did the last two years of smoking. Am I the only ex-smoker in the world who KTQ because of being too cheap and lazy to feed the habit? I mean there are other silly things like not wanting to suffocate and die in cigarette smoke but the important part - cheap and lazy. Yeah that nicotine rush felt awesome back then but otherwise being a smoker just sucked. I can honestly say I have not had so much as a puff since Oct 6th.

notsmokinjo, I figured you would be teaching a college level English grammar class. Or is it I dun figur u wood b lurnin to Kolluj levul gramer clas"

So today at work some customer was yapping away to one of the workers. At first it was kind of funny but after several minutes, i started to feel my co-worker's pain. I mean this guy would not STFU. It was like watching someone being tortured. I told my co-worker, "Next time just say, "but sir please don;t leave, i want to hear more!"

True er, do fake ones count? TNP thinks "testing the bed springs" involves pressure measuring equipment.

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Just the body expressing it's discontent for not having it's nicotine. Withdraw symptoms can be numerous. Most of us I think just have a select few. For me it was feeling real sluggish for a few days. If you go to the quack about it, they will diagnose some horrible disease and have some super expensive medication (not covered by insurance) for you to take. It is probably best to give things a few days and they will probably clear up. OR, you could also request "thoughts and prayers" from friends and family because that always helps matters. If that doesn't help, maybe they could send "good vibes".

You mean "special" in the same way that Bakon would call people "window licker"?

just relaxing on the couch

When we smoked, yeah our lifestyle had to adjust for it. I am one of those "me first" types so smoking never really interfered with much of my life. I do not live my life according to the whims or wishes of others so if someone didn't like that I smoked, they knew where the door was. I guess the "slave" part that made me quit was I often thought of "what if i ended up hospitalized or in jail or something that I was forced to quit even for a few days?" You don't ever think things will happen but you never know.