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Hi @Dianne, thank you for the update. I'm sorry you're having those issues. Its hard to believe right now but quitting and staying quit will actually help you heal faster😊 Congratulations on losing that weight too, that is awesome for being so newly quit. And I love how you're finding the good in your bad situations 🤗

Why didn't I think of that?

Do you miss looking forward to Friday sometimes like I do?

Am I the only one who doesn't care what day it is?

Rooster Quit Date: 1/1/2014 Posted January 9, 2015 · IP Hi everyone, in preparation for a night around some smokers I wanted to write down an accomplishment from yesterday which I will be repeating as many times as necessary this evening. My first no thank you. Since I stopped smoking, I was pretty surprised at how easy it has been relative to my expectations. I had prepared for the worse, but I have realized over the last few weeks that I really hadn't been buying many and as such didn't have very many triggers. I did have one however, the offer. As I had scaled back my personal smoking, only my social smoking remained, and it was something I was happy to have remain. I was quick to jump on any offer for a quick jump outside, either at work or with friends. This I knew would be my big obstacle. Well, last night I went out to dinner with a friend (my new roommate) who smokes occasionally. Dinner was great and we had a few drinks, another common partner of smoking with me. As we left I knew what was to come, I had run through the scenario in my head to prepare and it had always ended in awkwardness. I had shared my quit with him, but out of habit and some twisted sense of generosity he offered me another out of his pocket. There they were, the pangs, the slippery devil saying, well maybe just one... the fear of missing out. But while I did feel that impulse for a second it was followed by a "No thanks, I don't anymore" and everything dissipated. No awkwardness, no real compulsion anymore, just two friends walking home in their new reality. I know this is just one win, and it will need to be repeated maybe hundreds of more time, but I immensely proud to have gotten over what for me is the big obstacle of trigger. As I had out tonight to enjoy myself at a favorite bar, listening to a friends band with a crowd of people, some of whom I've known for 3/4ths of my life and some of whom smoke, I am comforted and invigorated by this victory and the knowledge that I have all of you in my pocket, just a few clicks away, supporting me on this journey. Thank you all so much. Link to original post: https://www.quittrain.com/topic/4130-the-first-no-thank-you/

That was so two rankings ago....😂😂

Should we ask Jeff Foxworthy?

Don't you think some red necks are geniuses?

Do you know something we don't know?🤔

Did you guys know you're causing me to drink?

That's what I'm wondering too?

Again?

Can I just stick to my Coors light?

I guess you probably did have a lot of people wanting you to take a shot with them?

Work?😄

Aren't you glad there was no cellphone evidence too?😄

If I was too drunk to remember then how can I answer that?

Isn't it rare to only be a time or two?

So then its my Norwegian part that gets them?

I found them a non issue in my younger days didn't you?

Oh perhaps you've misunderstood me. I mean I like watching men play.............in general 😄

Not as hard a partyer as I used to be, the hangover sucks when you get older doesn't it?

Me too! 😋

What's a hard partner? Is that like physically fit because I'm not as fit as I used to be?