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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>All Activity</title><link>https://www.quittrain.com/discover/</link><description>Quit Train&#xAE;, A Quit Smoking Support Group - All Activity</description><language>en</language><item><title>chicks or sticks</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.quittrain.com/topic/475-chicks-or-sticks/?do=findComment&comment=568304]]></link><description>- 11`</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:35:48 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Quitting Pouches</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.quittrain.com/topic/33440-quitting-pouches/?do=findComment&comment=568303]]></link><description>Start reading about nicotine addiction to understand it.  It's not as hard as you may have been led to believe.  Stick with it.</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:34:20 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Issue on Recent CT Scan</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.quittrain.com/topic/33433-issue-on-recent-ct-scan/?do=findComment&comment=568302]]></link><description>Good Luck Reci, hoping for a good outcome!</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:29:36 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Sunday 12th July 2026</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.quittrain.com/topic/33442-sunday-12th-july-2026/?do=findComment&comment=568300]]></link><description>NOPE for me today!</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 15:34:57 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>chicks or sticks</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.quittrain.com/topic/475-chicks-or-sticks/?do=findComment&comment=568299]]></link><description>-12</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 15:31:59 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>chicks or sticks</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.quittrain.com/topic/475-chicks-or-sticks/?do=findComment&comment=568297]]></link><description>-13</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 14:11:30 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Sunday 12th July 2026</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.quittrain.com/topic/33442-sunday-12th-july-2026/?do=findComment&comment=568295]]></link><description>NOPE! </description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 14:08:33 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Issue on Recent CT Scan</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.quittrain.com/topic/33433-issue-on-recent-ct-scan/?do=findComment&comment=568294]]></link><description>@Cbdave; the last time I had a CT Scan with that tracer stuff I had a terrible alergic reaction to it, which is weird as I've had it before and no reaction. As well, I'm not alergic to anthing else I've ever come in contact with but that one time I got a horrible itchy rash that lasted for awhile. 
 


	I was told later there's something they can give you if you are alergic to that stuff so if I ever have to have it again, I'll have to go the route.</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 13:49:45 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Issue on Recent CT Scan</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.quittrain.com/topic/33433-issue-on-recent-ct-scan/?do=findComment&comment=568293]]></link><description>Laying really still like that for an hour would be extremely difficult for sure.  I am keeping positive vibes and thoughts for you that all be be ok!!</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 13:48:44 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>chicks or sticks</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.quittrain.com/topic/475-chicks-or-sticks/?do=findComment&comment=568292]]></link><description>-12</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:43:19 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>chicks or sticks</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.quittrain.com/topic/475-chicks-or-sticks/?do=findComment&comment=568291]]></link><description>-11</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:42:25 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Sunday 12th July 2026</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.quittrain.com/topic/33442-sunday-12th-july-2026/?do=findComment&comment=568290]]></link><description>NOPE!</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:20:12 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Sunday 12th July 2026</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.quittrain.com/topic/33442-sunday-12th-july-2026/?do=findComment&comment=568288]]></link><description>I am saying NOPE to smoking for today.</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 11:35:48 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Sunday 12th July 2026</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.quittrain.com/topic/33442-sunday-12th-july-2026/?do=findComment&comment=568287]]></link><description>NOPE!</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:13:37 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Sunday 12th July 2026</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.quittrain.com/topic/33442-sunday-12th-july-2026/?do=findComment&comment=568286]]></link><description>Nope</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:06:14 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Sunday 12th July 2026</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.quittrain.com/topic/33442-sunday-12th-july-2026/?do=findComment&comment=568284]]></link><description>I am not going to smoke today. NOPE.</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 06:33:30 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>chicks or sticks</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.quittrain.com/topic/475-chicks-or-sticks/?do=findComment&comment=568283]]></link><description>-12</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 06:30:45 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Issue on Recent CT Scan</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.quittrain.com/topic/33433-issue-on-recent-ct-scan/?do=findComment&comment=568282]]></link><description>Gday
 


	mmmmm obviously had a too many scans. I&#x2019;ve had one for cancer&#x2026; instructions were keep away from pregnant woman, don&#x2019;t dribble on toilet seats and definitely don&#x2019;t pee on the lemon tree in the back yard&#x2026;.</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 02:27:06 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>chicks or sticks</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.quittrain.com/topic/475-chicks-or-sticks/?do=findComment&comment=568281]]></link><description>-11</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 02:17:53 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>chicks or sticks</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.quittrain.com/topic/475-chicks-or-sticks/?do=findComment&comment=568280]]></link><description>-12</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 01:23:05 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Quitting Pouches</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.quittrain.com/topic/33440-quitting-pouches/?do=findComment&comment=568279]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can understand how you got drawn into thinking using the pouch would be the answer to quitting. That's the way they market those nicotine pouches here in Canada anyway. They show a fit, active young man who's telling everyone he's tried to quit many times before and now that he's using the pouches he's finally quit!! Ah ....NO!
 


	He's just switched nicotine delivery methods and possibly upped the amount of nicotine he's putting into his body every day. The marketing of this things is so deceiving 
 


	 
 


	You're doing the right thing in getting rid of nicotine from your body &amp; brain altogether. We're here to support you in your battle for freedom!!]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 01:19:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Issue on Recent CT Scan</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.quittrain.com/topic/33433-issue-on-recent-ct-scan/?do=findComment&comment=568278]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most stressful thing about the PET Scan today was finding the parking garage and the proper entrace door at the hospital that was one I'd never been to. The scan itself was no big deal other than the fact it took about an hour &amp; a half. For those who have never had a Pet Scan, the scan itself is pretty much the same as a standard CT Scan with tracer, doesn't take more than 10-15 mins or so. It's the prep work for the PET Scan that takes a full hour or so before you go into the scanner.
 


	When I first got there they took me to a small cubicle and sat me down in a cushy recliner; like one you might have in your living room. It has a side table on either side and you lay your arm out on that table for them to insert an IV into your arm. The IV drips a small bag of FDG (Fluorodeoxyglucose), which is a safe, mildly radioactive form of glucose (sugar) into your vein. That only took about 5-10 mins. 
 


	After that they tell you they're going to close the curtain and leave you there for 1 hour and you need to lay back in the recliner and don't move at all for the hour, not even your arms or legs or any body part. Your not allowed to take anything in there with you. No tablet, phone or even a book to read. You just have to remain completely still for 1 hour. This is to allow the stuff they shot into you time to move into ever cell withing your body. Apparently any movement impacts that process negatively. I had never sat completely still for an hour of course and let me tell you - it's really hard to do! 1 hour seems like several in that situation. After the hour is over they take you into a room where the scanner is and run you in &amp; out of the scanner a few times and then, you're done and free to leave.
 


	The idea of the FDG mixture they put into your body is that cancetrous cells absorb sucrose (sugar) like crazy and the radioactive stuff in the mixture will make any cancerous areas light up on the scans they take. So that's that - done now. Now I simply wait to get the results of the scan back sometime later next week to see if any nodules in my lungs lit up on my scan.
 


	 
 


	To @Cbdave This tracer stuff is different from the tracer stuff they sometimes give you for a regular CT Scan. I've had that stuff too and yes, it makes you suddenly feel warm, like you peed yourself (). This stuff they gave me for the PET Scan didn't do that.]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 01:03:07 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>chicks or sticks</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.quittrain.com/topic/475-chicks-or-sticks/?do=findComment&comment=568277]]></link><description>-13</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:39:43 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Issue on Recent CT Scan</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.quittrain.com/topic/33433-issue-on-recent-ct-scan/?do=findComment&comment=568276]]></link><description>I hope it all went well for you Reci.  When will you get the results?</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:39:21 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Quitting Pouches</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.quittrain.com/topic/33440-quitting-pouches/?do=findComment&comment=568275]]></link><description>Welcome  @Sportsfan66  You are doing a great thing in quitting nicotine.  It may be difficult early but it does get better with time.  Stick around and let us know if and when you are struggling.  We are here to support you.</description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 22:05:56 +0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
