Reciprocity

Welcome rjr :) You obviously have been down this road before. You mentioned that the 5 month mark seems to have been your undoing in previous attempts. Do you know why that is? Understanding what has motivated you to start smoking again at that stage is important to overcoming it this time so please give that some thought in preparation for getting to that stage again. Did starting up again solve any problems or issues you were having? I suspect it did not and in fact probably left you deflated about having relapsed. This addiction is a very powerful one and takes pretty much all we have to beat it back into the background of our lives. It will always be there because we are all addicts but, the good news is that each one of us CAN live very happily without smoking if we really want to badly enough. You choose to smoke so, now choose to quit. The power to do either is all yours :) Hope you stay with us and participate here as that seems to be a very large component to our success in quitting as well.

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A.L. is the only league, isn't it :P

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You had surgery and faced challenges most of us don't have to face. That sucks but you need to maintain your quit in spite of challenges you face because it's the quality of your life and possibly your life itself that's at stake here! Come back and let us help you find freedom from this deadly addiction.

Oh geez! -18

Ah Yes..... Harry Caray; Andre Dawson - both legends in their own careers :) L.A. is up 1-0 as of tonight, We'll see what happens.

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You're right because these are team sports and it takes a team to win or lose but, in a super-charged emotional situation like that people always want simplicity in the reason for things that happen. One simple thing (or person) to blame bad sh*t on and in this case, Buckner was the unlucky recipient of New England's wrath. "We were sooooooo close then ............ BUCKNER!!!!"

^^^ You're doing great Jess! Stay strong, have fun. Just like the wine - you'll be fine! NOPE!

Big congratulations to you Cristobal for achieving such an amazing milestone. Seeing people reach the 5 year quit mark is truly an inspiration to the rest of us. You are in good company with some other amazing quitters on this board. Hope you celebrate big time :)

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I agree. It's tough to repeat in any sport. You never know though. By rights, Cleveland should be right there but they are gone already so ...... At least the Cubs got that one last year! I felt worse for Cubs fans than I did for Boston Fans before they broke "the curse". I remember when the Boston almost did it except for the Billy Buckner play?? They ran him out of town right quick after that disaster. Never to be heard from again :o

Geez -10

We try SO hard to be nice to you chicks and this is how you treat us?

-8 gang warfare I see :rolleyes:

I seem to recall Smoltz being one of the first athletes they talked about who used a sports psychologist during intense competitive matches. It's pretty common place now days.

5 Yumm .... beetroot :P

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I loved it when the Braves were in it pretty regularly some years ago. The wife & I used to sit at home watching those games doing "the chop" :lol:

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Down to the division finals now then the World Series. I don't follow it during the season to closely but will be tuning in for the remaining playoff games when I can. Usually pretty decent baseball. Loved it when this guy was still playing (#44 Reggie, Reggie - lol) What a great hitter he was :)

7 Yay sticks :)