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Hi Jeff! Waddya mean, lost. Sounds like you put it aside. So, just pick it back up...sooner than later to save your lungs. You will be fine! If you are a smoker for 1 month over a period of 2 years...so what! Just get back on that horse ASAP! Keep on a quittin! is what I say! Come back to Freedomland! Just quit again...right quickly! Your happier lungs will rejoice once again.

Congratulations, ItsDeb! 3 months is huge! It gets easier and easier from here on out. Keep up the great work!

Right on, John Q! Congrats on nearly a year! You already havee absolute freedom on your side. Never look back and reap the rewards! Great job!

Goodie goodie Jeff! Way to go, and you totally got this now! It's all mental going forward. Congratulations on being free from nicotine three months strong! You never have to smoke again. Period.

Hey hey hey Mac congratulations on one year cigarette-free! You made it, and you never have to smoke again!!! How does it feel not having to stand outside to get your fix?! Plane travel will be so chill going forward....Great going! Thanks for being an awesome companion on the . Enjoy freedom! And remember to reward yourself!

Great job keeping that quit, Linda! It's hard now, and its going to stay hard until it eases up. It will ease up eventually. For me, 4 months was a lot better. Then 6. Then 9. Please try to occupy your mind with something that wipes it free of all thoughts including smoking. Puzzles, crochet, exercise, a movie...cooking...anything that consumes you except smoking. It will get better. It takes time...only God knows how much. You have to have the longer breath, so to speak. Be more tenacious and more determined than your addiction, and you will prevail. Hope your days get better soon.

Plus what feels better, cigarette high or a runners high? Runners high requires more effort now. Smoking requires more effort later when you can hardly breathe enough to butter your toast let alone go for a jog. What tastes better, a cigarette or a yummy smoothie? Smoothies taste way better and have more calories now, and smoking tastes like farts and will emaciate you in the long run if you get COPD or some other terrible lung disease.

Hey Phoebe! You're almost back to the health risk level of a non-smoker after 12 years of abstinence, according to cancer dot org and a bunch of other websites. So, no need to throw away 12 great years of health benefits gained and longevity preserved. Sure you relapsed but should be able to keep all those health benefits if you quit again for good REALLY SOON. So great job getting back on that horse! Now just keep. riding. Learn how to deal with having a smoker in the house again. Hopefully only temporarily. Best of luck and you can do this!

14 months and 12 days! I went ballistic and filled my patio with container flowers and shrubs.

Hi Dogbelly! Great job staying quit and glad your craves are manageable. Just keep going, and don't get the blues. Spring is here! If you do get the blues, come here. Just hold onto that quit and the blues will also pass.

Cool that you are running. Feels great!

Awesome Job JH on keeping your quit. Looks like you have a good plan in place, and you came here to your support forum so right on and way to go! While quitting may be all-consuming right now, it will let up -- promise! If you have anything you can do to keep your thoughts off quitting, like learning a language or an instrument, or something else that truly consumes you, you should be able to feel some relief from that quit-smoking tension. I am 14 months in and hardly ever get an urge. Yesterday I had a 1 second blip, and it surprised me. Gone almost as soon as it came. Promise...it will ease up. You just have to hang in there longer than the addiction and all its tricks. Some sort of all-mind-consuming-activity should help. Great job keeping that quit! Woohoo!

Hooray Despair Not! 4 years must be awesome. Hope you feel awesome too because you should.

Happy 7th Birthday, Quit Train! Thank you to Maryland Quitter and all the wonderful people here who are so encouraging. This is the best train.

Yay Rajag almost 6 years! Congratulations and enjoy all that extra moolah!

Congratulations Ace! First month is the hardest so way to go! It gets easier and easier with each passing day. Next month will be a totally different feeling! Keep going! High five!

Hi Linda! Huge congrats to you on over 2 months quit now! That is awesome! You are hopefully over the toughest physical craves now. Now it's mainly about emotions and psychology. Stay close to the board so you don't slip up, keep educating yourself about smoking so you stay motivated and mindful, and don't give in to the no-nicotine-blues should they pay you a visit in the coming days and weeks. That too shall pass! Keep this quit going to keep transforming your life for the best! Be proud and stay strong! Great job!

Awesome Beazel! Never shall you ever have to smoke again!

Happy 1 monthiversary and congratulations on making it through hell, Steven! It gets easier and easier, you will seee. Just remember any reward is great as long as it isn't a smoke. You got this! Keep going you are doing great!

Congratulations on 5 years of freedom, Boo! Awesome to never have to smoke again! Thanks for all your good humorand insight. Way to go!!

We have a lot of connections to smoking. Especially in the younger days before 20+ years of smoking had taken their toll. There are those moments, good memories, that included cigarettes. So, it's a feeling, a moment of reverie or nostalgia perhaps, when you and maybe your best friend lit up together after an event, an experience, and strengthened your bond as you smoked together and processed what just happened or celebrated its conclusion. Something like that perhaps. It's the feeling that remains, what you are reminded of, and the cigarette just happened to be a part of that memory. The evil of cigarettes is the addiction and overuse that we got sucked into. If we could use cigarettes only occasionally, like wedding cake or something we only have from time to time, they wouldn't be a problem. Alas, we became nicotine addicts, dang it.

Lol I did a lot of eating! peanut butter, chocolate, donuts and, amazingly, alcohol. I don't recommend it. lots of exercising going on now to get the extra weight off...and dieting. if I had to do it again, I would go for water, and those inhalers LOL, and exercise, Oh yes and the JAC

But the worst so far was that I was already 3 days into my relapse before it dawned on me that I had quit smoking and was now 3 days deep into a full-blown relapse! Boy was I ever relieved to wake up.

Friday will be 14 months no nicotine for me after 34 years of smoking and chewing nicotine gum concurrently for 15 plus of those years - wow! Haven't had a smoking dream in 2-3 months I think, and none so freaky as yours! Basically they are all reminders of how glad I am that I quit, and how disappointed I would feel if I relapsed. Those dreams really hammer it home! Dreams are in lieu of relapses so you are so lucky to dream!

Yes! Stay strong!