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Great job @Dejvis93! Press onward!

❤️ the 🧤!!! Glad you kept your seat on the train and sincerely hope your wife hops on here with you soon.

Congratulations @Dejvis93! Completing that first day is the best!

Congratulations Jill! I’m so sorry that I missed the party, but I do want to take a minute to say that your decision 8 years ago helped me in my own decision 5 years later! Thank you for being here. You are amazing!

Oh we will NOT be giving any heartbreaker a chance to feel oh so smug when they find out you were driven to pick up an old bad habit in order to cope with their absence. Oh no we will NOT. You said it well, NOPE! 💪🏻

I’m so very sorry to hear of your mom passing away. The tribute you paid her through your poem is beautiful! Over a century old. Oh I bet she had so many stories to tell because she lived through a time of heightened innovation and just so many historical events occurring during her life. I can tell you will miss her sorely. May she rest in peace.

Welcome back Kenzie! So glad you’ve decided this was going to be your forever quit. Any quit is hard. I cried for 2 weeks. It’s not easy. Recognizing the depth of our addiction is key and you have. Stay close and talk yourself through it with us. It helps so much to do so. I hope to see you around soon!

Amazing @QuittingGirl! Welcome to the Lido Deck! It always seems to me that a year just flies by on this forum. I’m so proud of you. You have accomplished such a good thing for yourself! 😎

I can paint!!!

I’m glad you’re still with us and that you’re riding those craves out Michelle. Your determination to quit will one day inspire others. It’s one of the reasons we encourage ‘newbies’ to post their stories and journeys here. The main one being that it helps you!

Congratulations Michelle! 4 days is wonderful and this site is the place to be for support. I hope the rest of your visit with your sister goes smoothly!

Congratulations on 7 years smoke free Jane!

Congratulations on 7 years quit! I just love it when those who’ve quit before us check in with an update on their smoke free lives!

Welcome @catsinnc! You are doing a wondrous thing for yourself by quitting smoking and I am so glad that you chose to find a support group to help you along the way. We only want to see you quit. Forever. I think it’s awesome that you and your husband are going on this journey together. It’s important to have lines of communication open concerning the struggles of quitting. It helps so very much. We hope that you make use of all that this site has to offer and that we see you around here often!

Welcome back Michelle. Let’s get this Forever Quit started. I’m glad you know your triggers and prepare for them. Extremely glad you threw your ecig away. So many hold onto all their paraphernalia and cave to temptation. Looking forward to your success!

@Reciprocity is correct Michelle. Change up that routine and clean the interior of your vehicle. I had an uncle gift me a truck once and I had to soak cloths in hot water with Dawn to keep washing the windows down and use a razor blade to get all of the nicotine that had built up in the glass off. It was disgusting. No, I was still smoking at the time and it wasn’t bad enough to make me quit. 😞 Hoping for an update soon!

Amazing @DenaliBlues! You are so lucky! Last year I had coyotes take up residence under a silo. Stressful.

Congratulations Stew! Time has just flown by. You are well on your way to the Lido Deck! See you there soon.

So true. Great reminder.

Amazing @QuittingGirl! See you next month in the Lido Deck!

Congratulations Mac! Four years is awesome.

Sorry to hear @Breath-of-Power. This addiction is real. It is powerful. I don’t know how much time you’ve spent reviewing the information about nicotine and the additives that cigarettes contain, but the stuff literally rewires your brain. Your brain. That organ that controls everything about you. After the nicotine withdrawal it’s what you will be fighting against. Of course it’s going to fight against reconditioning. You try again. Again and again. You write down why you are quitting. The truth. The ugly part of it. Carry that around with you. Read it every time you want a smoke. We all have something that we want more than that cigarette and one day if we allow ourselves the liberty to do so, we just smash a link in that chain of addiction and crawl out from the unbearable weight of it and in time we find ourselves standing against it and some day dancing on it’s grave. There are good times to be had. For years you’ve had to base decisions around your ability to indulge in your habit. Being able to enjoy a smoke. Lies. Smoking puts so many constraints on so many aspects of your life. Step back and realize that it’s not only affecting you, but those you love most. Not in the second hand smoke way, but just being able to 100% be there for someone. It’s hard. Conquering this addiction is so hard, but doable. I hope that you hop back on the train. I hope that you take advantage of this thread you created. Post, post, post. Just writing down all of your thoughts helps so much. Everyone here has gone through what you are going through. No judgment here. Just encouragement and support. I hope that you will try again.

Freedom from being smelly and stupid. And self-serving. Can’t forget that.

FACT: “ A cigarette will never be the answer to anything you need.”