Penguin

Welcome! Congratulations on your quit. Now let's see what we can do to keep it going! The people here have been very supportive, and they'll be honest with you about the harsh realities of smoking. It's a good place to receive accountability without the ego. We'd like you to stick around and put in the time to get some distance from your addiction. As so many of us here have shown, you can beat it!

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Ever since I quit, I've had a handful of dreams in which I dreamed I broke my quit. I've woken up in a panic before, and one was so convincing I spent time going over my finances and looking around my apartment for evidence I'd bought cigarettes. My dreams are not usually that vivid, and it really irks me when I have those dreams. Does anyone else experience smoking nightmares that leave you in a funk? Let me know how you cope with them, please!

We're on our fourth day of crappy weather here, so I'm inside working on our family history. Unfortunately, all the online resources are also having issues with the weather, so they're frequently going offline. It's been a bit frustrating, but also productive. I've managed to clean out a lot of the tangles and dead weight on the family tree--people that we thought might've been connected but aren't, duplicates, and so on. So far I've pared away 200 names, and finished the second draft of my dad's and my continuation of my grandfather's family book.

NOPE! I like myself!

Congratulations! That's about the time I really started to feel like I might be free from my addiction forever. It's a time to celebrate, and to be vigilant. You've come this far, so stay on your guard and keep going! Treat yourself to something nice today.

NOPE! I've been running into a lot of guys who claim to have quit, but they only transferred their addiction to cigars, a pipe, a vape, or to marijuana. Not. One. Puff. Ever. Of. Anything! Smoke is smoke, a pile of carcinogenic crap you're inhaling into your body. Even the vapor of a vape is loaded with a lot of dangerous chemicals.

Congratulations! Ten years is a big accomplishment!

15 MONTHS SMOKE-FREE!

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I understand that! It's a good way to put it. In those times, it may help to make a list of all the reasons to quit apart from yourself. Remind yourself of why you quit in the first place, and the good that's come from it. "Count your blessings" is a bit trite, but there's some truth to it. Write it down, if you need to.

Remember, you have permission to do anything else you need to do to get through your stress, just nothing that involves smoking. Those sudden cravings that nag at you are rough, but you can get through them. Just think, every moment you resist, you're reinforcing your quit.

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Congratulations!

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I was under the weather yesterday, so Sunday's come and gone, but it was definitely a NOPE kind of day!

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Just a tiny celebration today, but my dad and I were working on a project today. Normally, he frustrates me to no end because our work styles are so very different, and I used to always smoke a lot more whenever he and I had to work together. Today, it didn't even occur to me that I wanted to smoke; I just wanted to breathe and calm down and then take a nap.

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