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Congratulations on 11 awesome months quit Christa!

That's awesome Michelle, I knew you could get past that

My take is that there was nothing easy or enjoyable about it. So glad to be past that first year!

Do you think I'm the only one who likes the smell of their own dirty socks?

False TNP can ride a unicycle

On the outside looking in

Hello my friend

Lima beans

The first month is the hardest so lean on us as much as you need to. You've been so successful with all your other addictions so you know you can succeed with this too

Also please take your non smoking family member with you if you're going to another meeting tonight to ensure you won't bum a cigarette

Good on you for posting Michelle, I've been where you are and I promise you it'll pass. Smoke your straw, take deep drags of clean air. Do something that you've always done that you didn't smoke doing. I never smoked in my car so I would take a drive and the crave would almost instantly go away.

Pretty on the outside but ugly on the inside

@Diane R, yummy, wish I had of thought of that!

@reciprocity, that's tonight. Beef tacos!!

You've got to get up pretty early in the morning...……...

Just got done with the last of @reciprocity's relative. Yummy

The habit is what got to me too Diane, that's why I used my JAC (jillars air cigarette). I just pretended I was holding an actual cigarette and then went through the motions of "smoking" it. I took deep drags too (nice clean air). It really worked at tricking my mind into thinking it was getting the real thing. Even if I did look stupid dong it lol.

that was a pretty good tongue lashing

I had my never smoker husband go places with me the first few months because I didn't trust myself not to stop and buy a pack so good on you for taking a nonsmoking family member I also used my air cigarette when cravings got really bad. I simply pretended I was holding an actual cigarette and then went through the motions of "smoking it". I may have looked like an idiot but it sure worked to trick my mind into thinking it was getting the real thing

Welcome aboard Diane, we have lots of successful quitters who used chantix. I quit the first time using it but didn't take it for the length of time recommended and relapsed. So my clue for you would be to take it for the time recommended which I believe is three months. As far as the nausea I found that eating something as small as a mini donut before you take your pill worked great. You just want to have a little something in your stomach.

I think jimhannoonen is up that way. I'm on the central coast

Congratulations on a great 6 year quit pippa!

Congratulations fellow butt kicker on 3 Years Quit!

Dread

Yes Michelle, you must apply the same self discipline to quitting smoking as you did to quitting drugs and alcohol and you will succeed.