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Hello,

I am on my final quit! This is it. This has to be the swan song. If I fall, so be it, but I am really giving this one the honor it needs.

I have been smoking since I was 12. Picked up in the house from my parents cigarettes. Big house, they never noticed.

I have had many vain attempts at quitting. I am a sober alcoholic, 15 years of continuos sobriety.

I am a recent cancer survivor, last chemo May 2010. Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma DLBCL. I am fine. Some of the drugs I was given during my chemotherapy had an interaction with my attempting to quit smoking. I got 3 smoke free months last year but the headaches were chronic from the drug that no longer had the nicotine.

So I finished up getting off all the drugs last year and I am trying again.

This time is a keeper.

I am pretty solid right now, but I would like to make friends for emergencies for each other.

So Hi! Day 23. I am American so I hesitated signing up, but one planet right?

Lots of love!

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Hello,

...I am American...

I already guessed:D - and you're forgiven:D:D.

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Hi Zoey, great to have you on board. And great decisions to quit.:cool:

Loads of lovely peeps on here, any probs just post, usually some one around to help.

Keep us updated with your progress please:)

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Well done Zoey :)

You sound like a very determined and brave lady and you deserve this one to be The One after all you have been through.

I shall be cheering you on. A very big welcome to the forum from me. :)

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Hi Zoey,

What an incredible story, so happy for you that you beat cancer! And that you still have the energy to now give up smoking. You're obviously a fighter so quitting should go smoothly for you.

I look forward to reading more of your posts (: x

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Welcome Zoe :)

You sound determined and you have the best excuse in the world to give up.....

Your health......good luck,you can do this:)

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A big huge welcome from me - you are doing brilliantly

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Big welcome Zoe

I started smoking when I was young mainly because of my parents.

At Christmas my dad use to come home with loads of cigars and hand them out to us like sweeties.

Then my mother use to get me to light her fags on the gas stove.

Amazing isn't it?

It would be child abuse today.

Keep going its so worth it.

Freedom.........

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Welcome Zoey, it's great to have you here, where abouts are you from in America? X

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Hi Zoey and a very warm welcome to the site :)!

A huge WELL DONE on your quit so far.

Lots of help and support on here from great people.

Looking forward to keeping up with your progress.

:D:D

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Zoe,

from one American to another.. This forum is great!! :D I had my thoughts of "This is a UK forum, should I sign up?" but, honestly, there is not any forum on the internet like this one. The people here are GREAT and you will be showered with support.

Your story already is an amazing tale. Beating cancer is just, wow, I can't even imagine.

I am glad that you have taken the plunge and have decided to try to quit cigarettes once and for all. We WILL ALL SUPPORT you until you got this quit underneath control and you have the nicodemon underneath your foot at its throat. :cool:

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Hi Zoey

You are incredible, and pride yourself of such. You are not just a smoker with an addiction, although we have our history and resultant pain to quit, but you have had some hurdles thrown in for good measure that any mortal would dread to thread!

You have addressed this addiction and decided to stop. Excellent, good on you. Take one day at a time, a day over and done is a day won. And you are probably recollecting how hard it was. So if you relapse, you have to go through it all again. Do you want to?! Feel immense pride in your strength, your resolve. It is a gift of courage/strength you awarded yourself, don't strip yourself of it. Stop and speak to yourself, seriously. It sounds silly, but YOU and only YOU can respect yourself and do good by you. You will prevail, keep the mindset right!

Be strong

Firefly

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