woohoo!!
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Good for you! Kickin ass one day at a time
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Heck yeah @JuliaLuna
Woohoo indeed!!? Hope you n your son are feeling better⌠great work on your smoke free time 
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i canât believe iâm 4 days smoke free!! i had one strong urge last night, woke up in the middle of the night in a panic about the Cambodian killing fields?!? my brain thought that 3am in the comfort of my warm bed shared with my sleeping child was the perfect time and place to imagine the atrocities of genocide. after fighting back the gruesome scenery for long enough i closed my imaginationâs door and staggered thru the pitch black of my consciousness, shouting âur telling me this brutal horror exists, hell exists on earth and i canât even have a fucking cigarette?!â
âŚi do understand justifying addiction by the presence of agony because - well thatâs why weâre addicted. itâs the agony. but what i did last night was say âmmhmm yeah genocide and agony of all kinds do exist. that still doesnât mean you need a fucking cig, kidâ. and thatâs true, so i couldnât argue. eventually i was able to get back to sleep, but only after cleansing my palette with a tutorial from a beautiful Ghanaian village mother on how to steam plantains in the African bush.
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So true. Sick stuff exists and yet that doesnât mean we need to kill or numb ourselves with addiction. You had a intense night with deep thinking. Glad you were able to work it out and get back to sleep.
4+ days Julia . Keep pushing forward
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iâm so excited i have 5 days without nicotine!!! i do have urges but my desire to be smoke-free is stronger it reminds me of when i finally quit alcohol.
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Heck yeah â hold onto the urge to be smoke free and just like with alcohol you will overcome this too my friend 
5 days is amazing work!!
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5 days - way to go Julia! You rock mama 
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Way to go with your bad self 
âŚ1 week is amazing
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Heck yeah congrats on 1 week @JuliaLuna stay vigilant!
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thanks! vigilant is the perfect word for this. last night i was house sitting @ my dads house and i found myself snooping around for a vape (he vapes so i figured there was one stashed around here, and itâs not smoking cigarettes so it should be allowed, right?!) - wrong!! bad behavior!!! im so glad i didnât find one and my sensible self intervened pretty quickly. i learned again that addict behavior doesnât disappear when we stop using, so i have to keep intervening there and confronting that sneakiness with honesty & self-care. i also need to prepare for a party this weekend where i know there will be cigarettes and vapes around. hitting a vape is like putting my foot back into the world of nicotine and smoking, so i need a hard NO there. vaping is not allowed for me either!! so thank you again @Cjp for this word âvigilanceâ - NEED THAT! NO INHALING ANYTHING BUT PURE OXYGEN FOR ME!
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Smoking bad
Fresh air good
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Hi everyone, so I am doing it as well! Well⌠not just yet, I will stop my vaping addiction in 2 hours 43 minutes (midnight), I am writing it now as i donât want to change my mind. Also my daughter is informed and she is taking my e cigarette away from me at midnight. So finally I feel ready to do it, I stopped alcohol 39 days ago and it gave me so much strength and self confidence.
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I really want to do it, i know it will be tough, maybe even worse than alcohol as I was vaping first thing in the morning etc please accept my apologies for a lot of winging I might post here in the nearest future, I cant promise to be very strong but I promise to do it anywayâŚ
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Strenuous activities helped my stay focused on the goal and made me tired so I could sleep. Sleeping was the easiest time in the beginning. I had to switch up everything. everything made me crave. I broke other bad habits along the way. Spending too much time staring at my phone, for example.
I held my breath during intense cravings.
I save a lot of money not smoking. Spending that on positive things helps me too.
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It is a bit funny but I am already worrying about what to do with the time I used to spend vaping⌠it is funny as my to do list is so very long. Vaping is such a perfect tool for procrastination. Well its gonna be interesting 
Actually I cant wait to see!
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Just reached 60 days smoke free 
Edit 61 days
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