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I'm so excited to have gone a complete month without any tobacco or nicotine. It hasn't always been easy, but it hasn't been too bad. Everything has been made easier by this great community. Looking forward to many more months with you all! Hooray!

A whole month of NOPE!

I had no idea how much I was really missing. I can smell food being cooked 2 floors away now, and smoke really does smell gross. Those nonsmokers were right!

One day left to a month and a big happy NOPE to start it off

A great day for NOPE!

Up to 4 weeks now and I can feel that one month. Almost there!

4 weeks straight NOPE!

You're doing great JC. Every craving is an opportunity to reprogram our brains to our new lives. You have to retag those triggers as non-smoking moments vs. the old way. In this way every challenge makes the next ones easier. A drastic change will be harder, but re-write more quickly than the incremental one of the value which still reinforces certain moments and triggers as smoke time. You'll get there, it isn't about a month from now, or a year or a day, the only thing you have to conquer is this moment. And you can do it

Oh no, NOPE

N O P E

Going into the weekend with a big NOPE!

Thanks for all the awesome support guys, 3rd week now and I've got my eyes on the month. I know I can do it with the help of this great community. You're all truly wonderful

3 weeks in the train and another great NOPE

NOPE NOPE NOPE!

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Big time NOPE

Hi Rob, welcome to quit train!

Missed the pledge yesterday, so two for. NOPE, NOPE!

I was out with some friends at a bar yesterday and as the night went on it was common for a number of them to preform the hourly ritual of ducking outside for a smoke. Given I was a frequent companion on past trips, it was notable that I was not joining them outside in the freezing night. While there was a twinge of feeling as though I was missing out, I was able to keep reminding myself that it is they who are unfortunately missing out on a healthier, less addicted life. The bigger issue for me was the questions around why I was no longer smoking. Obviously there are hundreds of good reasons, both personal and widely known, for becoming a non-smoker, but I really was not greatly prepared for this question. I want to be able to answer in a truthful way, while letting them know how much better I feel and encourage a similar choice. However, I also want to strike the balance of not coming off as prosyeltizing or anything, both because I think that is ineffective and because these are my friends and I don't want to be "that guy" So I wanted to ask the board. How have you handled these types of questions once you have given up the smoke? How do you avoid being too preachy while also simultaneously speaking fondly of your decision (as you should) and talking about the why's. I want to help them and be honest, but I don't want them to feel as though I'm pushing the smoker's guilt button, which I think we all can attest to not working ever.

Nope!

Congrats on the month, that's awesome! Keep it going!

Good morning, it's a good day to be a non-smoker and remind myself NOPE!

Earliest I've ever posted here. Proud to start the day with my 14th NOPE!

NOPE! no smoking, no nicotine. Ever

Thank you for taking time to write that excellent post Chrysalis. It is certainly advice I will do well to heed as I improve my longer term quit plan. It will definitely help with what I think is one of the biggest aids to my quit this time, keeping it front of mind. Unlike previously this is fully the only goal/habit change I am permitting myself to work on for 2 months. Immersing myself daily in my motivations, a supporting community and continuing the commitment have helped make this my most successful and enjoyable attempt so far. I knock on wood as I am only 2 weeks in, but I will definitely heed your recommendations and keep surrounding myself with great resources like those and this forum right here.