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Yikes! Scary stuff @Stewbum. Glad that intervention was timely and that you’re here with us to tell the tale. Take good care! KTQ!

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Sucks to get that kind of news but it does add even more motivation to live as clean as possible; staying off the smokes will go a long way to keeping you off the table again for as long as possible. Onward & upward Stew👍

Sorry to hear this news, Stew, but you know it is very important to keep the quit at this point. You can do this once and for all.

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I am so glad I read this while I was struggling because it helped me to focus on the positives of quitting and debunked so many of the lies and excuses we tell ourselves. I also learned a few new things. This is my second time quitting, but it feels different already. I'm very thankful to have found this forum and I hope to give and find support in this group (quit net was around the last time I quit).

@SD2026 I'm doing okay. I keep having to change my quit date but I had a new shipment of patches come today so I have one on and going to keep moving forward. It's just been a stressful time around here but I'm learning to navigate it and looking up coping skills of how to deal with emotions. I started my finalquit today and I will not give up. I'm anxiously waiting to tell y'all when I have 24 hours smoke free! Thank you for checking on me 😊

Welcome @Melissa247! This isn't just your 2nd time quitting, it's going to be your last time! 😊

I'm sorry it wasn't the news we had hoped for and it will certainly give you more motivation to stay quit, hard as it can be you've got the support of everyone here to help you along the way! Stay strong! 😊

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Sorry for the bad news. I'm a "glass half full" person. Hard incentives or wake up events can become great positives. You know exactly where you & your health stand and what you need to do for yourself going forward. And it's all doable ... especially the no smoking part now. Don't be so hard on yourself. We all knew the risks of smoking (or we were living in a hole someplace) but the pull of nicotine addiction (or any addiction for that matter) is strong. You got this. (I''ll put my bat back in the closet. You really didn't need to go to this personal extreme to prove you meant it when you said you would not smoke. I really would have believed you. 😎 ) Rest - Recover - Rest

Doc just left me with some pretty bad news. Prepare for bypass surgery in my future. That artery was 90%+ blocked in multiple areas that he covered with the 2 stents. Stay off nicotine, diet and more cardio type exercise will slow the progress. This is what my plans already were as long as I could exercise, and without the stents any exertion was impossible without nitro. So in other words, get responsible for your actions and Grow Up before you can't. KTQ Stew.

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SD love those healing vibes, thank you. KTQ Stew.

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I remember this from so many years ago. Thanks so much for posting it again.

I was prepared and bought bags of Lifesavers, there already gone but Amazon is on its way! In the SOS posts is to look back at your own post's. Well this is a LIFESAVER in itself.. Everything I am going through is listed by my own hand. And some answers to my questions and help is there in my personal messages and posts, it's a hell of a read. Thank you all for the help and friendships. You all are also LIFESAVERS! Myself fighting and having had such incredible convictions to my quit is amazing. I need to get through this and be THAT GUY. It seems so long ago but as I read my memory of the plans and setbacks are crystal clear.... why did I fail.. I know exactly why. It did have to do with the "one" but what I allowed to get me to that "one" is the problem. There was so much more in my life that gave way to failing. Same exact thing on my pervious quit!!!! I cannot explain in an open forum since I would not want to supply other quitters with excuses to be anything but truthful to their quits. Watch that NicoDemon he is shrewd. Research is power!!

Subtitle: The Romance Is Dead! This is the time of year when many people quit smoking. Most especially, people who quit before but relapsed are trying again. I think that is wonderful (that they're coming back, not that they relapsed). Reading their posts has made me realize that in very many cases, people relapse because they are still romancing the cigarette. That means that they still WANT to smoke even though they know that smoking does nothing good for them. They still remember those quietly satisfying evenings on the deck smoking. They remember that a-a-a-h-h-h! of satisfaction with the first long draw on a cigarette. And they want that again. And so even if they are weeks or months into a quit-- even though the PHYSICAL addiction is long gone-- they essentially choose to go back to smoking because of the pull of these romantic fantasies about how good smoking was. Well, I was the poster child for romancing the cigarette. Throughout this quit and all my previous quits (of which there were several) I always wanted to smoke. I didn't smoke-- I controlled myself-- but I wanted to smoke. All the time. Almost every day. It seemed to me that after 4 or 5 months quit, almost everybody on the board was way done with smoking and happy about it. I still missed it. And that was frustrating because my rational brain KNEW that the "pleasure" of smoking was vastly over rated and mostly imaginary. I KNEW that I was romancing the cigarette and I really did not want to go back to smoking. But the seductive thoughts were there. Maybe not every day, but often enough to be very annoying. I'm here to tell you that today, more than 9 months after my quit, I realize that I am not desiring a cigarette hardly ever! This is a first for me. And this death of the romance is not just a matter of time-- I quit smoking before for periods of up to a year and still suffered from romancing. I think that the difference this time is that I educated myself about Nicodemon's lies. It's as though my rational brain has told my junkie brain over and over and over again "No, smoking is NOT pleasurable! And such small, brief pleasure as you feel when you smoke comes at way too great a cost! Forget it!" and finally, FINALLY junkie brain is quieting down. What a relief! Now I do admit that during these "romancing episodes" that I'm talking about-- those days when I really, really wanted a cigarette-- I had to remind myself over and over again about why I quit smoking in the first place and remind myself over and over again that I wanted to quit more than I wanted to smoke. I had to FIGHT to keep my quit many, many times over the months. The urge to smoke wasn't constant, but it was frequent. Sometimes it was quite miserable. I'm still jealous of people who seemed to have it easier than I did. I often thought that I was a "special snowflake" and I had it harder than other quitters-- few people admitted that they still wanted to smoke many months after a quit. But whether I had it worse than anyone else or not, I hung in there, reminded myself about why I quit, and that I was DETERMINED not to smoke. Now, at last, I can look back over the last few weeks and realize that the romance is dead. I finally, finally am at the point where I do think about smoking once in a while but it's like a vague thought that is easily dismissed, not a serious desire. I have heard others describe this "vague thought" phenomenon many months after a quit and I finally understand what they are talking about. So I guess I am writing this to say that if you are many weeks or months into a quit and you still want a cigarette, you are not alone. What you are experiencing is real. It does happen to some people (like me, for example). You are romancing the cigarette and you have to use your rational brain, your smoking education, and your strong desire to quit to fight the urge. And eventually, sooner or later, you will turn around one day and realize that the romance is dead. You really don't have to fight to keep your quit anymore-- you just have to remain vigilant and committed. Hang in there, folks! You can DO this!

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