Minnie Mouse

Congrats on 9 months smoke free! You are no longer "attempting" to quit ... you've done it! Now to keep your quit just remember the golden rule .... NOPE ... Not One Puff Ever. You'll then never ever have to redo the first 9 months. Again, congrats & keep it up!

Big Congrats on One Year! Yes, knowledge is an awesome quitting tool. Celebrate!

Awesome achievement! Keep enjoying your freedom!

Three weeks is always a reason to celebrate (the threes ... 3 days, 3 weeks, 3 months ... are great milestones for sure!). Congrats! Never again!

Ya, that "Cha Cha" dance can be a killer. Maybe work on changing why you thought smoking had something to offer you to entice you to go back to it and put up warning "gates" for yourself in the future. Not preaching as I went back to smoking after a year and a half quit myself so I had to really break it down to protect and change myself too. Just a thought. Congrats on 22 days and counting UP!

Don't know why you chose to speed up your chosen quit process but as always it's your personal decision, your quit. Whatever works. And yes, as you know, your body is yelling for nicotine as it goes through withdrawal. Physical symptoms but don't forget the mental part (don't listen to the negative things you may be telling yourself; kick them out of your mind). Keep your focus ahead. Your chosen tools seem to be working. You know you can do this. One hour or day at a time for now. Keep it up!

Congrats on 5 Months! You reaped a BIGGIE benefit right off the bat for sure but I would hate you to get into the thinking sink hole further down the line that you were "forced" to quit because of it and you really miss it, etc. Recognize the other benefits as they accrue too. A biggie for me eventually (once the smoke had cleared for a while) was no longer wasting time dedicated for it and thinking about it (do I have enough smokes, can I freely smoke where I'm going, are there going to be any other smokers, do I have to limit/not smoke). All that constant chatter surrounding the addiction in my mind is gone. Whoosh. Priceless.

We never regret being quit. You did it before so you know you can do it again. No matter how bad I felt in the early sucky days I would remind myself that if I didn't smoke I would never have to go through it again. One last time to the road to freedom. Break those chains.

Glad I saw this (haven't checked into the site lately so better late than never I guess). Big congrats to you on 11 years smoke free! And kudos for your ongoing Daily Pledge posts which continues to help others maintain their smobriety too. Keep enjoying your Freedom!

That incessant voice running around in a loop in your head needs to be stopped in its track. Replace the thoughts with something else even if it is you just saying the alphabet over & over & over again. Get up and do something physical ... anything .. go for a walk, take a shower, and keep kicking out the smoking thoughts and replacing them with something else. You control your thoughts. You. Tell yourself "NO". Don't give yourself permission to smoke again. You already made that great choice to stop 5 years ago. You will never be satisfied as a smoker ever again. You would just need to start all over again to get to this same place. Do whatever it takes to wake up tomorrow with no regrets.

Ten months is awesome! Keep enjoying your smoke free life and never ever go back!

@Jane Not one puff IS the correct and only path. Keep it up! I encourage you to change your quit date so we can see at a glance your progress (and for you not to be reminded of the past cause you're never going back there).

How you doing @Jane ? Your post seems to have been buried. Hoping this posting gives it visibility in the community. @DenaliBlues You got this! And yes, as we help others we help ourselves.

Awesome! Keep enjoying your freedom!

Wishing you the best but as you know "luck" has nothing to do with it. YOU are the deciding factor in your quit and stay quit. It's easy to smoke that first one and fall quickly back into the full fledged nicotine addiction trap again as many of us can attest. I was one of those that found it hard to get back on the train and each attempt seemed to become harder and harder. I knew I needed something to switch on in my brain to stop the white knuckling and change my focus into my free choice of never going back to smoking. Being quit for 5 or 10 years and still thinking about wanting to smoke when seeing others smoke was not the future I wanted for myself. I wanted to feel gratitude and achieve peace in my smobriety. I found the switch by reading and educating myself about nicotine addiction (the why, how, and what I could do to help myself) and then reading some more. Each time I read I took away a few words or thoughts that spoke to me and added them to my pile of "never wanting a smoke" and "never going back". Find your switch. Then it really doesn't matter how long it's been since we last smoked. All that matters is that it no longer is a want or option to anything in our life. We are then free. You can do it too. Pledge daily (you don't break promises to yourself do you?). Post an SOS as needed and as often as you need to the community for help. Nobody says you have to do it alone. Use the community. "Best Wishes".