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@Reciprocity this is what I've been thinking of recently, I already know Spring/Summer will be a trigger for me but at least I won't be caught off guard and will just try to prepare myself in some way.

I was the same @Keith First few weeks checking what health benefits I should expect by that week or if I had a negative experience, if that was normal, however I stopped when I could actually feel/see them for myself. It's a great feeling!

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Gecko (probably the only cutest lizard there is)!

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Gday I used to joke that I had a bushman’s breakfast. A pee. A smoke. And finally a quik look around. Then rush into the day. Now it’s a longer look around. Check out the house block to discover those little things. A branch down the cobwebs over paths. Does the gardens need a water to protect from what the summer heat draws. Feed the chickens. Simple things. The dogs awake …. Finally. She waits by her lead on the back veranda. And it’s off for a walk. I own the morning. It’s mine. I don’t have to answer the call for nicotine. I call the shots.

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I am not going to smoke today. NOPE.

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Don't misunderstand what I'm saying about changing your lifestyle @Keith. What I meant is learning what to do with all that time you spent smoking. You now have to fill those hours each day with something productive rather than just going for a smoke. That requires some degree of change in your daily lifestyle. Also, dealing with seasonal and other smoking triggers you may not expect after being quit for a while. I quit in late January and yet in mid April, the first lawn cutting of the year, I got acraving for a smoke because that was my reward for having finished cutting the grass in years past. I found it interesting how some of these trivial things in our life were wired to having a smoke, at least in our brain. It takes time to get through all that but it's certainly doable, especially after the early quit withdrawal is pretty much over.

Thank you for sharing Reciprocity! That is one thing I have not done yet, is change my lifestyle incorporating a new that does not involve smoking. And is something to seriously start thinking about. Currently my lifestyle remains the same just without smoking. At the end of the day I pat myself on the back and go to bed. Kind of like taking the AA approach one day at a time. But, I do smile on how much money I have saved so far. Here in WI, unless you search out a two-pack deal which might save you a buck fifty. One will pay around $14.00 a pack and as a pack a day smoker, as of today that is $840.00 I've saved since January. That's actually quite a bit of money considering one is paying for something with no ROI except for another nicotine craving a half an hour down the road.

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@Keith, Some time after I quit I realised that the most time consuming part of quitting was becoming comfortable with changing my daily lifestyle that had become so intertwined with my nicotine addiction that it really did take the best part of a whole year to complete that change in my daily expectations around smoking and to begin feeling comfortable with my new non-smoking life. That change really does become a daily rinse & repeat effort for quite some time but in the end I realized, this is the way my life should be lived and that's true freedom from nicotine addiction

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