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"I also realized last month how many quit symptoms I had and had forgotten about. Isn't the human brain a wonderful tool! It almost feels like I never smoked at all to me." This is SO true ! I am forgetting so completely and so fast! Your Journey with your new business is very exciting, Marti. Congratulations on EVERYTHING.

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Thank y'all for your wishes and great cards ! Thank you very, very much, my darling smoke free freedom fighters. Doreen, no worry about flight schedules....I have a QTardis !

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Eight Months of F R E E D O M for M A R T I Congratulations !

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Welcome John. Learn about your addiction. Learn as much as you can. Education is an essential component to a successful quit. So, read and watch the vids, post often, ask questions, tell stories, play word and counting games for fun and distraction. Tell your story for yourself and for those following you. You will love the freedom and strength quitting will bring to you, Love, S Here are some things that helped us during our first days nicotine free

adding 7,940 mind boggling amount of smokes total 192,403

I knew I wasn't looking deep enough. I wasn't skeered until my last hurdle ! Look what I found in my blog, "Now, at Ten months and change, craves are strange little thought bubbles that don't belong to me, EXCEPT when I try to paint. That is what I 'do' and it is being a real bugger. What if I can't paint without that junk ? It feels so weird to hold a brush without a smoke. Plenty of Fear (oh, JOY) to shut down on this last (or current) no-smoking snafu. I will buck up, quit my special snowflake whining and just get on with it FGS. This week, I will. Yep, this week." and with encouragement from y'all, that week passed and by three weeks fear was a distant memory. Amazing how quickly I forgot ! Love that. S (edited to add) If I hadn't been able to jump that hurdle I would have gone back to smoking but, by that time it was just breaking a silly habit and the my quit had a life of it's own.

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WOW. I am so glad you are Safe. Your holiday sounded just right after the BS ! I am glad you found a little paradise. So sorry for your family loosing your Uncle. Rest in Peace, dear Uncle of Joe. The pictures are lovely, Thank you, Joe. I am so happy you are OK. Is your back better ? Did that shot work ? Love, S

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I go to 'like' something in personal messages too and it isn't there ! Maybe we actually have them but, Nancy STEALS THEM ALL. :P

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true in Quebec. delish. tastes like chicken for true. poor frogs. poor chickens. poor beautiful cabbage. arghhhhhh! where is mana from heaven ? TPBM will eat spinach at every meal (like me)

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LEMME OUT we lost the thread Colleen Short Trip

I didn't fear quitting....frankly, I rarely, if ever, thought about quitting. Then I quit and took a day at a time as usual. I didn't fear craves they were a minor annoyance. OK they were a horrible annoyance for a while. I didn't fear relapse. If my quit didn't stick, I would quit again or not. Fear didn't figure into my equation. I have fears just like everybody but, not about quitting or staying quit. I was riding on quitting on a whim....let's quit for a year and see what it feels like. You can always go back to smoking.