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You guys sure know how to make a bunny feel special ? Should we all eat a brownie?

Is it just me or do you guys not like my questions?

With all these goodies, me is having a GREAT anniversary

Congratulations lml, you are now past the hardest month of them all! Thank you so much for jumping in with both feet forward to support your fellow quitters be it in your blog or on the boards. It's truly appreciated by all I'm so glad that you treated yourself on Sunday, keep doing that every month or even every time you get past a particularly hard day because you're worth it!

Congratulations on two years quit today Wayne Looks like we'll be sharing the secret lido deck together today so cheers!

Congratulations on seven months IIIPass!

Thank you all so much for the kind words. And thank you @notsmokinjo for posting. I couldn't have asked for better people to be on this life changing journey with

Mine was both too lust in that I had been telling myself for almost two months that the party(?) was over. I had changed where I smoked in preparation. And then one day I just said to myself, I'm done. I know you will tackle your diet with the same tenacity that you did with smoking. I have full faith that you will succeed

@notsmokinjo, yep it'd be the same here unfortunately.

@WeegieWoman, I didn't mean to sound like I'm offended by them. I was just commenting on life in the United States. The U.S. is probably the biggest sue happy country in the world and anything and everything is subject to a possible lawsuit sadly enough.....

Here in the U.S. the company marketing these would probably be sued for using the derogatory term faggots. You won't find these in any grocery store here

Glad it helped @Sslip

Congratulations jo on being half a year quit. And for all you do here, you have really showed everyone the meaning of paying it forward and for that I thank you. You give me a smile and giggle everyday with your wit and wisdom and it's truly an honor to call you my crazy friend

Woohoo devo, congratulations on two years my friend and quit buddy Hope you're super proud of yourself, it's HUGE!!!

Posted 20 June 2014 - 03:14 AM No I'm not trying to hypnotise you or play Jedi mind tricks. I'm talking about relapsers or quitters who continue to have smoking thoughts and desires. Nobody WANTS to go back to smoking. They quit because they want to quit (for whatever reason). What they want from time to time is to smoke. And what that means is something else. It means all of the things that people "like" about smoking: A break in the day Stress relief Bonding time with buddies Anxiety relief Thinking time Reward for finishing a job etc And it also means not having to THINK about not smoking all the time. Gawd I remember that. I remember thinking - "When will it ever end?...I just want to stop thinking about not smoking!" I see people saying it here all the time "I don't want to fight with myself any more! When will it end?!" But it's not that you want to be a smoker again. I reckon most smokers don't want to be smokers! If you gave someone a choice between being a smoker (with all the expense and smell and health fears and social shaming etc that goes with it) and being a happy non-smoker - of course they would choose the latter. But most smokers simply don't believe they can be happy without smoking. They believe they LOVE and need their cigarettes too much to live without them. And when we quit it (generally) takes a lot of retraining for the brain to dismiss all of that addiction thinking and learn that we can actually get all of those good things in other ways without all the bad stuff you get with smoking. Some people are lucky and once they make the decision to quit, they are solid in it. Easy peasy. But lots of people struggle. And that's OK. The struggle is part of the process. Embrace it as part of the process. Look at it as the price of freedom. That's basically how I did it. I wanted freedom most of all. Freedom from smoking addiction and everything that went with it. The price became easier to pay over time. It took less. Every now and then I have a "want" to smoke but it's fleeting and easy to dismiss. Because I KNOW I do not want to be a smoker. No way. Make a commitment to yourself. A promise. Promise yourself that you will never be a smoker again. And don't worry if you want to smoke from time to time. That's fine, because you know that it's really about something else and you definitely don't want to be a smoker again. No way. Ewgh.