Twenty Four Years.
Quit February 20, 2001

Originally January 26, 2001 but tested myself with some puffs at three weeks.

It took me 33 years of smoking, most of that time really wanting to Not Smoke to actually Quit Smoking.

Of course, with each cigarette, I really wanted to have the cigarette more than I wanted to really Not Smoke and there in lies the problem.

I really felt like I could not Not Smoke . That I was unable to, that I would never be able to not smoke.

I spent many years using...Twenty Four Years.
Quit February 20, 2001

Originally January 26, 2001 but tested myself with some puffs at three weeks.

It took me 33 years of smoking, most of that time really wanting to Not Smoke to actually Quit Smoking.

Of course, with each cigarette, I really wanted to have the cigarette more than I wanted to really Not Smoke and there in lies the problem.

I really felt like I could not Not Smoke . That I was unable to, that I would never be able to not smoke.

I spent many years using nicotine patches or nicotine gum the wrong way.

For me, they just encouraged me to smoke more. The extra nicotine was not what I needed and I did not have the discipline to use them in the prescribed way.

I wanted to smoke more.

The day that I finally made up my mind to not smoke I found the site QuitNet

This was in the early days of public forums with strangers.

It did make me feel a huge sense of community to see everyone with the same struggles that I had, anxiety and fear. Doubt that I could ever be successful

I saw that people actually could make it half an hour, they could make it an hour, they could make it through several hours, they could make it through one day without literally dying because they weren’t smoking.

Seeing the people make it through one day, two days, three days, gave me some confidence that maybe, maybe, maybe, I might also be able to do it.

The people with one day, two days, three days, were my heroes.

The people further out than that were way too far out for me to even relate with.

Although a person I was in contact with did say stick with the winners.

Look at what the people who are doing, what they’re saying, and that really is what also took me through.

For the first time in my life, I was around people who had the same problems that I did as far as stopping smoking.

Reading stories and spending so much time on QuitNet, that is what made me successful.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, to all the people and to QuitNet and now to NOPE 365.

I could not have done it without you and I thank you from my heart.

To all of you wanting to quit. You can do it. You should do it.

The help is on the site for you.
There is absolutely nothing that cigarettes do that is beneficial. Your mind needs to make the decision to stick to the mantra Not One Puff Ever.

If I can do it, anybody can do it and that is the truth.

Stop smoking. Smoking Kills.

Again, thank you to everyone.
Hello and best wishes to everyone who I know and who I do not know.

We really are all in this together.

Much love and gratitude from me.

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