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Share your quitting journey

This is your place . Welcome to Ex

Maki
Member
4 1 82
‎10-15-2020 01:07 PM

If you think weight and smoking go hand in hand then you've come to the right site. Here you can manage one thing  , both things , or more . 

If you are underweight quitting smoking will help . If you are overweight quitting smoking will help .

You can take charge and manage your weight when you want if you want , how you want but do it healthy . Smoking is not the answer . 

If you choose to wait on the weight and quit smoking first you are still very much supported . You make the choices how to manage your quit , your weight , your life . If you choose to tackle weight after you quit you still receive the same amount of support and if you look around the site you will find places you can join up with others getting active . 

We smoked for so many reasons ; many had to do with our self worth or our lack of self esteem , maybe lack of purpose .  Perhaps you were an emotional smoker . One who smoked when angry , sad , or lonely .  You stuffed how you felt in iwith every inhalation and exhaled the pain you had inside but it was destroying your gifts . Your lungs to sing , your heart to give . As you quit you will see a shift in the negative side of life and see more positive in your life . Smoking will have no value what's so ever !  Get excited about that ! Smoking is a drag ! 

This community is understanding , supportive and wants all their fellow quitters to succeed . We are just regular people from all walks of life who have struggled and faced some or all of the same challenges as a smoker and a quitter . 

Yes there are people here who have quit smoking yet they still struggle with something in their lives because it's life , but they know we don't need a smoke to cope . Smoking doesn't attribute to the cause anymore and it's certainly not the solution .

People are working things out in their own time . One day at a time is the gift we receive by staying quit . 

We are not running a race here and there is no competition . So if you you go to bed tonight and you haven't smoked you are already a winner .

We are all winners running in our own lane here , bettering ourselves as individuals to be a better community that in turn will help all who come in the doors of Ex that are looking for freedom to become smoke free .

There is no finish line because freedom from smoking doesn't end  ... it continues ....one day at a time for us all  and we join our hands together in this community and share in the joy of this freedom one day at a time . 

Just a few things to help find your way around . Please check out the pledge every morning if you think that will be helpful to you then please join in . There is the get moving group as well as other groups . Note ... only some groups are active most others are not .  Active groups will pop up on the right side of your screen on discussions .

Blog and share your day or your experience . Participate in discussions if you wish , or participate in the games. Ask questions when needed give a shout out before you smoke and ask for help . It helps you and it helps us too .

If you just want to read , that's ok too . Do what works for you to get your power back and your freedom . 

                                                         

                                                                This is your place . Welcome to Ex . 

Maki . 

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About the Author
Smoker of 28 years . COPD recipient . My biggest help to quit was to read other successful quitters testimony . I’ll have a thirteen years quit June 30 , 2024 . Biggest lesson learned : I learned the “Just one” lesson . You can never have just one .It is the the key to everyone’s quit . Having “ none” is the easy way to quit smoking . Quit tools : Made use of my strengths and improved upon my weaknesses . Quit benefits , more time with my family , better quality of life , better self image . How I kept the quit : one day at a time , one step at a time . I told myself like a broken record : “ Don’t smoke ; Do something different “ then literally went and did something different other than smoking “ . Quitting is not complicated , nope is it , however it will be the process of self discovery for you to find that out for yourself . How long will that be ? Up to you . We are all different and we come from different backgrounds and smoked for different reasons so no one can really tell you when it will get easier for you only that it will . Be patient with yourself . Who cares how long it takes anyway because we all came to quit forever . This quit is for life , your life , so embrace it , welcome it , it’s the best thing you will ever do for yourself . The money you save get a bucket list of little rewards and big ones and do them . Change the things you can . Life is worth living . This gets easier , oh my gosh , so much much easier . Give it a season , give it two and you’ll never want to let go of your quit I promise you that . It’s wonderful , absolutely wonderful to be free . Quitting btw was the hardest thing I’ve ever done just like everyone here . I shed buckets of tears for weeks , yelled into a pillow , stuck my head into a cold bucket of water and paced aimlessly in head fog . Was it worth it , every bit of it ! Biggest improvement : , my health , the relationship with my family ( all non smokers thank goodness ) and finances . When I started 2011. I was walking three blocks with the use of inhalers for copd . Latest accomplishment : still on the inhalers no further advancement of copd . June 1 2023. Did my first 10 k . Next goal is my second 10k by the end of 2024 . I’m 68 years years young and I’m an Ex smoker . I was able to take three trips ( out of country ) with my family because I quit smoking . Time I never would have had had I not quit . Money from quitting paid for them . I want to say you are in control , take your power back from cigarettes from vaping or any addiction you might have . Life awaits you , don’t let it pass you by . Make the decision to stop and one day that light will shine upon you and make you a whole new you . Thank you to Quitnet members and Ex members for the support and encouragement to quit and stay quit . That along with my desire never to smoke again has given me a life long successful quit . No turning back , ever .