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Howdy! re-visit from a March quitter.

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Today for some reason I looked on my phone and came across the quit counter I installed the day I stopped back in March.

It read's:

"It has been 28 weeks, 2 days, 17 hours, 6 minutes and 19 seconds since I quit"

Seeing that made me think of this site, I thought I would say hello and more importantly say a big thank you to all those folks who supported my quit at it's most delicate beginning stage.

There were a few times over the past six months where it was a damn near run thing, especially as my other half did not manage to keep quit.

Each time I nearly fell the lessons I learned here pulled me through. I knew with certainty that whatever problems I had at the time that if I took one cigarette then I would have one more problem on top.

I'm happy to say that I never had that first one!

I don't think about smoking much these days and staying quit is relatively straightforward but I guard against complacency by remembering that I was quit for ten years once and that in the end one puff led me back to complete addiction in little more than a few months.

Once you get quit, don't ever forget how much smoking sucks, hold onto your quit with all your strength!

I choose not to smoke today... Good luck to you all.

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Wow, well done Rubicon!

Hearing people who have quit for long periods and then started again just reinforces to me never to take even 1 puff!

Well done you!

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