What's your "Quit" anniversary date?

[Everbrooke]

I don't believe I was ever "addicted" to marijuana, but I was dependent on it for some time.  It was the ONLY thing that helped me with crippling anxiety...until recently.  HRT has completely changed that in me, and I don't have a dependency on weed anymore.  I still smoke it, and ocasionally do psychedelics about every 6 months.  Don't intend on stopping these, because A.) One is due to my spiritual beliefs and B.) both have been proven as non-addictive substances and both have been shown to have positive effects.

That being said, I think I'm addicted to a pattern of food consumption.  Last month I dropped 40 pounds, and somehow today, being stressed out by many things, I walked into a terribly bad buffet that I knew wouldn't have good food and ate my fill.  I need to get over my addiction to food....

[Newgirl Dani]

Everything:  2/2/1996  Smoking:  Sometime in 1997, not really sure as I have no memories of my first 4 or 5 years, at least anything solid.  I had used of the "near death daily" type for 33 years, up until I got c/s I had never had a job, never had a drivers license, never drove a car, never had an apartment or home, never hiked camped fished hunted, never made a friend.   Dani

[Newgirl Dani]

Just found this and realized what a dismal note that ended on.  I was litrally allllmost asleep at the wheel on this post and just made it to bed before falling asleep in my computer chair.     I cannot, no way, no how remember where my thought train was heading but I can say this, nearing my 20th year so many cool things have happened I could write a book, so noooow I can finish this and actually be awake and know what I'm doing.        Dani

[Jessie Ann]

Smoker I was.  My latest quit date is 1/1/14 and I hope it is my last. I had various lengths of quitting ever since I started at age 16. I've gone 9 years, 4 years and 2 different 2 year periods of stopping. Now that I am on HRT I've got all the reason in the world to stay off them - I really love living now that I have transitioned. I used to not really care if I lived or died. Now I love waking up getting dressed up, putting on my face and going out into the world - I am woman hear me roar!

[Stanna]

Feb. 14, 2015. Came out to my wife and had my last drink the same day!
  I was drinking myself to death and eating unhealthy. But since that day I have come to love who I am and started to take care of myself. I lost 45 pounds and started HRT May 20. My wife loves who I am also and totally supports me.
  Life is good! :-)         Stanna

[Catherine Sarah]

September 2010. Could no longer keep up the front of a perfectly sane and normal person. Had to stop living the lie.

Have been a total nut factory, insanely mad and crazy ever since. Oh what a relief. Never felt better.

Now the inmates are running the asylum. Best thing yet.

Huggs
Catherine

[Anna33]

Quit smoking cigarettes on jan 10th 2010. Almost six years smoke free baby! Got back into sports in this period too


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[0searching0]

December 22 2015. My first day in rehab. I had a drinking and coke problem. It's only been 8.5 months of sober life, but it's the longest I've been sober since I was 13 years old (ten years ago).

Time to quit smoking now!

[Lady Sarah]

I don't recall the exact date, but my last cigarette was in March of 2015. 

[Deborah]

I don't recall the exact date, but my last cigarette was in March of 2015. 

Me too.  It was Mar, 15.  Of course that was like the sixth time I'd quit, sometimes for a couple of years.  Hopefully it will stick this time.

[0searching0]

Me too.  It was Mar, 15.  Of course that was like the sixth time I'd quit, sometimes for a couple of years.  Hopefully it will stick this time.

You can do anything you put your mind to

[BeverlyAnn]

Smoking in April, 2007.  I used Chantix.  You're supposed to use it for three months but I only did one month and it worked.  I still have a pack of cigarettes from the time I quit.   I also found out I was smoking the equivalent cost of a very nice digital SLR per year.

[Deborah]

Believe it or not, smoking was always connected to the dysphoria since I was 14.   Whenever it got really bad I'd always start smoking again.  I think it was all connected back to my mother smoking and my father not smoking. 

Hopefully, the dysphoria is gone for good now.  Maybe smoking is gone for good too.  It killed her.  I don't want that for me.

[LizK]

25th August 2000 Been sober ever since

5th July 2016 Quit Smoking...YAY!!! Feeling so much better 8 weeks Tuesday

Liz

[kaitylynn]

Broke free of my yoke of drinking and smoking the same day, 6th of June, 1996.

[0searching0]

Believe it or not, smoking was always connected to the dysphoria since I was 14.   Whenever it got really bad I'd always start smoking again.  I think it was all connected back to my mother smoking and my father not smoking. 

Hopefully, the dysphoria is gone for good now.  Maybe smoking is gone for good too.  It killed her.  I don't want that for me.

Deborah,
That's actually quite fascinating. Isn't it funny how we all turn into our mothers or fathers to one extent or another. Good for you for quitting though.

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[Lily Rose]

 i have thought in the past i was a alcoholic and may very well be. i haven't been drunk in the past six years however i have had the occasional drink for special occasions. this is only two or three times a year. one drink does me in now. the one thing i worry about is going into hiding again, will turn me into a total lush again. also i do worry about coming out to my family may drive me down that road again.

please forgive if this doesn't exactly belong to this thread.

[LizK]

Booze August 1999 have abstained ever since

Cigarettes 05 July 2016 4.5 Months going strong

[SueNZ]

I will never quit. What I am heading to is control. I have never done drugs, never smoked but do drink a lot.
I am working on what makes me drink as I enjoy it and it does not control what I do. At the same time I do drink too much based on best daily intake.
The main thing I have quit is denial.
I do not deny who I am (to my self and those I am out to, but mainly to me), where I wish to be and how my coming out (blossoming) has made me a better person.
If you have quit something, you are extremely strong and you should be proud. Sometimes moderation works just as well.



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[antia212]

I got sober February 12, 2012. It's such an important date that it's part of my screen name on this forum


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