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must admit my heart was in my mouth then, this is so definitely your sticky :) xx

What you need to remember CPK is the addiction will try every trick in the book to try and entice you back, through a dream, through a niggle, through a doubt, if you give the addiction any room in your head it will grow, it will become bigger, this is what happens when we romance the nicotine, its very easy to fall into the nicodemon's trap, tell it its no longer welcome in your head, you have control of your life you are doing awesome, we are a team here and we all understand what you are going through xx

Your doing great Michelle, Kick heck week into touch commit to NOPE and stand tall and be proud xx

CPK awesome, I'll make you a promise you and I are close in quit dates, I'll push you if you push me!, Deal, lets Nope this quit xx

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Bakon was worried about you for a while you were quiet for a wee bit too long there ............but normal insanity is resumed, back to my corner and sucking my thumb xx

Hi Michelle and welcome to QT, congratulations on getting through hell week, you are doing awesome, its all about re-educating yourself my lovely, you are worth so much more, take back control of your life, the craves are going to test you, and some days you will feel like banging your head off a brick wall, the NOPE is a wonderful chant in the early days, I swear people thought I was crazy, muttering under my breath NOPE, breath NOPE breath.....everything you feel is completely normal, stay close to the board and read, post and take it all in, if a bad crave hits reach out there is always someone here, and we will help you through it, you need to know that you can do this xx

Both my parents smoked, I started smoking at 12 as well, but back in the 60's and 70's not so much of the dangers were known about nicotine addiction everyone smoked then!!, my mum quit when she was in her 40's my dad quit and started to smoke cigars and stopped them when he was 66, my brother has never smoked neither has my husband, my son smoked, but he has since quit. In my husband's family his mum smoked and gave up a year ago she was 64, his two sisters smoke out of 5 of them.

Love it CPK, whatever it takes to get you through the crave, much better than setting something alight and putting it in your mouth eh!

Hi CPK the intensity of these dreams will decrease over time, promise, your body is adjusting to life without nicotine and one thing to be affected unfortunately is your sleep pattern, just relax if you can, if you become uptight with the sleep pattern you are currently going through you will make the situation worse. I myself don't know if there is anything that you can do to lessen the intensity of the dreams, but one way to look on them is that your body is re-awakening to a new you, and that has to be a good thing, everything you go through in your quit journey at the minute is leading you to a better life. Positive and be proud you are doing a wonderful thing.

Fantastic 7 months walk tall and walk proud

Amazing 16 months, I can see you in the distance, and the quit looks great

I am totally rocking this quit , 3 weeks, in your face!!!

The smoking dreams are completely normal, I quit last year in January and found the smoking dreams so real, and I used to wake up sometimes crying thinking that I had lost my quit, then feeling elated because it was just a dream, the sleep pattern will settle and you will find your sleep will be much better for you in time. Adjusting to a life as a non smoker is being able to change your routine and habits, I find its the feeling of missing something and that there is an empty sensation, but knowing a lot of long term quitters here I know that in time I will adapt and learn to live with this feeling . Be so proud of you, be proud of what you are achieving, you are taking back the control of your life, you are no longer a prisoner to the nicotine, you will in time benefit from feeling fitter, have a better sense of taste, smell, you will no longer smell, your eyes and hair will be brighter, you will be able to walk, run further without being out of breath, have renewed energy enjoy your food, a whole new life awaits you out there, take it by the balls and enjoy it xx

3 weeks NOPE

I never left :D always lurking in a corner

Such scary reading, its frightening to think how many times in the past I read posts and stories just like these and thought to myself, "it will never happen to me" so glad I finally saw sense and made the decision to quit, my mum watched her auntie die from Lung Cancer, she smoked woodbines from when she was a child and did not quit when told she had cancer, its terrifying to realise just how powerful the addiction is, I was dealing with a customer today whose wife has just come out of Hospital after being diagnosed with COPD, waiting for a wheelchair to be assigned and is on Oxygen 24/7 poor guy was in tears. I do not want to end up losing my life to nicotine

Hi great to see you here and welcome on board, be strong and take each day as it comes, committing to the NOPE pledge every day certainly helps and even if you have to repeat to yourself I find myself doing that sometimes, plan new activities is a good idea and think what you can do with all the money you save, make a treat day for you, the body will go through some amazing transformations over the coming months, and there is some wonderful help and advice here on the quit train, stay close and post as often as you can, "talking" it through really helps xx

Hi CPK welcome on board the quit train, and big congratulations on the best decision you will ever make Quitting xx

In the words of "Shania Twain" Come on over, come on in, pull up a seat, take a load off your feet, make a wish make a move, make up your mind you can choose, be a winner, be a star, Yeah be happy who you are, gotta be yourself, gotta make a plan, gotta go for it while you can, Come on over, Come on in.........pretty apt methinks xx

Fantastic Evelyn, two months is brilliant keep climbing you got this xx

Awww Rob sorry to hear your not feeling well, take care and keep warm, I remember being ill and still smoking and feeling a million times worse after thinking WTF why did I just do that, or not being able to smoke because I was so unwell for a few days desperate to get better so I could smoke!!! beggars belief, anyhooo healing hugs coming your way xx

Brilliant Marcus, its the one thing that holds alot of quitters and would be quitters back, FEAR, fear of not having or being able to smoke FOREVER, its that word FOREVER that scares so many, but we need to learn to fight the addiction and remember we are worth so much more and the fear will eventually fade and we will come to realise that we have chosen the right path and that is the path to freedom, freedom from the nicotine and freedom from the addiction.

Tracey you have been there for me on so many occasions, thank you my lovely, 15 months is simply fantastic, xxx