Hi there. I am a serial quitter who currently is one day shy of a milestone. I've celebrated this one before, quite a few times, and I am hoping to not have to celebrate it again. I am here from long ago and far away Quitnet, and more recently NOPE, and I have been wandering around this site for a few days and I have to say I like how front and center smoking cessation is. I'm newish to this site, so I'm sure there are politics or drama like most places, I just haven't seen it. What I see are helpful and inspiring posts, posts of all shapes and sizes and types, and no word for word rote posts that repeat for decades. (Or maybe those are here too, like I say, I am fairly new.)
Not new to quitting, sad to say. I made my first, honest-to-goodness, quit medications and dum dum suckers in hand quit attempt in 2010. I made it not quite 4 years. Then in late 2013 during a nasty breakup I started poisoning myself again wholeheartedly. I had drifted away from the site over the years and didn't even think to ask for help. There wasn't even a craving, per se. I was waiting at a bus stop, a guy lit up on the bench beside me, and I asked him for one. (I know now the craving was an instant of smell recognition.) BAM, right back into it.
Then I was away for a couple of years, when I came back it was still quitnet, but quite a bit changed. I had mixed feelings about it, and still do. But I have to say the people I have met from the "new" quitnet will be friends for life. Then it was taken away, boo, but an awesome Quitster named John made NOPE. NOPE is a wonderful (free) site and I won't get into any issues I've had because they are too personal for a blog, and not even quit related. But during this new Quitnet/ NOPE time I quit over, and over, and over again. A puff here, a cigar there, 3 or 4 sick sticks at a time I would lose quits. And now I am done with that.
Tomorrow a milestone, but then again today is a milestone because I haven't smoked.
