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  1. This is a GREAT post that so vividly captures the pain of relapse. So many of us suffered through this: “And all the pressure that drove you to grab that cigarette in the first place - it's all still there. Nothing has changed, except now you've added one more problem: you just blew it.” Lost in the wilderness indeed, but the Quit Train can be a rope that pulls us out of the quicksand. NOPE
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  2. Thank you ladies for sharing your very meaningful stories. Doreen my heart goes out to you. This addiction is just so so awful.
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  3. I remember reading this during the initial days of my quit almost 3 years ago. It helped me identify what I was going through and reinforced what would be waiting for me on the other side. I’ll ever be thankful for all of the reading material and video links available on the QuitTrain.
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  4. ”Take control of your life, reclaim your mind and body, and get it straight about who owns you. Is it you? Or your addiction?” “You can't fix a cigarette crave with a cigarette.” ^^^ True that!! Perpetually chasing the cravings (which can never be truly satisfied) is exhausting and futile. Freedom from the bondage of nicotine is beautiful.
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  5. So horribly true. Been there done that..... lesson learned? I don't think so,,, another lesson avoided is the reality. Another great read for storage in my personal arsenal. Thanks Nancy and Jill for reposting.
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  6. A great video to save and watch periodically to remind us to stay vigilant in guarding our quits. Life is stressful. Over time out hearts soften the harsh realities of our addiction. We forget that we are addicts. We quit smoking for a year, two, or more and believe that we are bullet proof and that we can’t fall and that is precisely when we start slipping. Thanks @jillar!
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  7. Thanks @jillar. Informative and sad. Not something to look forward to is it? Watching someone slowly die from it is the worst. I assume if someone is on the QuitTrain checking it out or as a seated passenger it’s too late to say ‘never start smoking.’ But I can say ‘Stop, stop smoking now!’
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  8. ^ ^ So true!! I quit more than 18 months ago and I can tell my brain is not fully healed yet. It is happening, but slowly. The “deceiving allure” still calls me. Well NOPE on that! Gonna face forward, no going back.
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  9. Ahhhh…..BROKEN CHAINS
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  10. Yep, me too. I put smoking above friends and family in this same way. Addiction does this.
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  11. Truth. Ugly. Brutal. There isn’t enough of it out there today. Thank you Doreen, for keeping it real.
    2 points
  12. Posting this forward .. Keep your quit for your partner ..watching is so hard If your on the fence ..i hope this help you make that leap .. Tony sadly passed away 4 years ago .. Nothing good comes out of smoking..xx
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  13. Never going back to being a slave to nicotine. Done with it!
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  14. Ditto for me AND…
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  15. Such a great story, thanks for the bump. Needed this reminder today: “….The only thing I got from it was emptiness…”
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  16. Love the analogy of the teenager standing in front of the open fridge, I do this often after dinner,,, what's next! Well we all know what used to be next, now for me that popsicle is the cure...
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  17. ^^^ True that! It’s a totally awkward phase (including a few tantrums). But it passes!
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  18. This info is so important and so true! Thanks for the bump @jillar. Smoking is not just a “bad habit.” We’ve been chemically hijacked, so we can’t see the cycle of addiction clearly while we’re still smoking. But quitting changes everything! NOPE (not one puff ever) is more than a handy saying… it’s a neural necessity, and the only path to freedom.
    1 point
  19. “It takes time......it takes patience..it takes re-enforcement... In short, it takes work...but it is sooooooo worth it.”
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  22. And this is just the physical effects. Smoking can also be detrimental to your mental and financial well being. 🥹
    1 point
  23. Love this quote from above. Recovery always begins and ends after your LAST cigarette and never, ever, the next.
    1 point
  24. Yea I get horn.......oh I mean Restless alot!! Enlightening and great read. I believe I remember babes posts from QSMB?
    1 point
  25. This is great advice @jillar… thanks!!
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  26. You can add Vascular Dementia to the list. I just lost one of my sisters to this and have another that is suffering the same. I personally have heart disease of which they just added my 4th stent and for myself has an added bonus, "now diagnosed" as Prinzmetal angina. This is spasm's of the coronary arteries and creates a lack of blood to the heart. Smoking used to generate these attack's but I decided, with the help of the addiction to cigarettes, that this was "JUST" angina associated to the heart disease.
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