NEF Where were you?

[JACKIE1-25-15]

  

Good morning.  Lately I have been on the Ex community site a lot more than usual.  As some of you may know I recently started a group.  SINAO  smoking is not an option.  In an effort to make it interesting, I have been doing research, reading my old blogs and comments for ideas.  While reading one of my old blogs the thought NEF came to mind. 

  

I remember as a newbie trying to figure out what the heck all the acronyms meant.  There seemed to be an assumption that everybody knew. So I really did not want to ask.  Eventually another newbie was brave enough to do so.  Since then I try to make an effort to explain the abbreviations.  But anyway my point today is NEF never ever forget.  I believe that is what it means.  lol  

  

I was reading a blog that was written within my 20 something day quit.  I asked the question: Where were you when you smoked your last cigarette?  The response was very enlightening for us newbies so I am asking the question again as a way to help the newer members of Ex.  Oldies can answer too if they would also like to NEF. Have a great smoke free day.  I am a nonsmoker. NOPE not one puff ever.

[JACKIE1-25-15]

January 25th, approximately 3:35pm.  I was puffing in the garage.  I looked at the cigarette and knew at that moment what it felt like to be  "stupid".  Angry at myself, thinking:at this point in my life still smoking, knowing the danger and still doing it.   Talking out loud to myself, I said "Ridiculous!"  "Time Waster!" "Don't even get anything from it."  I remember blowing the smoke and fanning it out of my way, I wanted it over with, extinguished it.  Sprayed the usual air freshner and left.

I am glad I remember the day, the hour, and how I felt.  I am not sure how often I think about it but I take a deep breath...of relief.

[MarilynH]

I was outside at approximately 10 pm on the 13th of July last year knowing that I was smoking my last cigarette so I picked up the ashtray and threw it in the garbage and promised myself that I would never pick up another cigarette as long as I live and that's been 439 days ago, like most everyone here I had my rough days in the beginning where I could of ripped my hair out or worse but I knew that I was done killing myself. Finding out that I had copd was enough to scare me into my forever quit and it definitely was thebest decision I've ever made in my life. 

[YoungAtHeart]

Mine was 10:00 PM on January 3, 2012.  It was under the industrial exhaust fan where I always smoked in my kitchen.  I remember putting it out, putting the butts from the ashtray in aluminum foil and into the trash - then the ashtray and the lighter went in as well.  I soaked the balance of that pack under the faucet, put it in the trash.  I gave the rest of the packs from that carton (except one) to my daughter to give to her BF's family.  I kept one pack  (as suggested on some other quit website) in the freezer, the idea being if I ever got desperate I could take one out, and before it thawed, I would be over the crave.  Thinking back - that was yet ANOTHER dumb idea put forth by some medical person who didn;t know what they were talking about.  Think about it - tobacco doesn't freeze!!!! 

I never looked back.  I won't say it was easy, but it was not nearly as difficult as I had been brainwashed to believe. 

Nancy

[Zendlewise]

Sitting in the shade of a beautiful summer day, not enjoying the ciggarette I was smoking.  I had been mindful and very aware of every cig I smoked for quite a long time, and i was just weary of continuing doing a thing  which went against everything I wanted to be.  That simply being a part of the sweet blessed Earth, and nature, being as natural as that.  There happened to be a tiny plastic skull on the ground left over from last halloween so I put out my ciggarette right by the thing and just left it as a reminder.

[Thomas3.20.2010]

On March 19, 2010 I had been diagnosed with COPD just 6 Days before. Addict that I was, I didn't want to "waste" the Sickerettes I had on hand so I made 10 of them last those last 6 Days!

Nothing was truer than the fact that I was enhaling "Death Sticks" into my already damaged lungs!!!! It made me sick to think of what I was willingly doing to my body! And paying good money to do it! [Look up penny pincher in the dictionary and you'll find my Picture there!]

I actually was relieved when I had finished that da%$ thing! I knew how to quit Cold Turkey but knew nothing abot Smart Turkey so I went online to find some help and came across BecomeanEX that very day. Like most newbies I stayed in the shadows and read but kept silently in the background! [Boy, that sure changed after awhile! LOL!]

There was nothing good and everything bad wrapped up in that last puff on my Death Stick! I knew without a doubt that it was way past time to STOP IT already! GEEZ!

[cpsono]

I had started on Chantix and set my quit date for 8 days out.  The Chantix did it's job.  As suggested by the rx, I had cut back to maybe 8-10 cigs per day down from my usual 20. By day 6-7 I had finished my last pack except for one.  On May 27, 2015 at 830 PM, I smoked 1/2 of that last cigarette.  I remember telling my husband I didn't even want to finish that one; I was done.  It hasn't been an easy ride, but I'm not going back.  I like the new and improved me!  CP  122 thankful DOF

[Giulia]

April 30th, 2006.  Smoked all day as I usually did.  Had more cigarettes left in the pack and just stayed up chain smoking them until they were all gone.  Waste not want not.  Disgusting.  I then was on line every day getting support and clawed my way up from the murkey depths of the tar filled well into the beautiful clear colored light of freedom.  I'm so glad I don't ever have to do that again.  NADO (Never Another Day One)

[TerrieQuit]

12:00 am July 6th 2015. Sitting right here in my spot on the couch, watching "The only way to stop smoking" and chain smoking every last cig in that pack that I could! When he said smoke your last cigarette, I did! Ran what I wasn't able to chain smoke under the faucet. and went to bed. Woke up smoke free in the morning and haven't put one in my mouth since!! and Ditto Giulia  NADO!!

Terrie  82  DOF