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Woo HOO Reci, you're killing this! Congratulations buddy! Hope you're feeling great and enjoying your life of freedom! Thanks for all the help you have given me in my quit and for all you do on this board.

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Now for ten years we've been on our own

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Amen!

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You're absolutely right there- the cig would only make it worse!

You shoulda been 0, Doreen, so I'll go -1

Between the patch and the lozenges and how you feel, sounds like you're getting just enough nicotine to keep yourself in a constant state of withdrawal. You can end that by taking the plunge and getting clean once and for all. Even if the first 3 days are rocky, may very well find that it's not as bad as what you're going through now. If I were you, that's what I'd do. I'm obviously not you, so you'll make your own decision- just sharing what I've learned in my 3 quits and passing it on. Best to you, PT

Uno

I arrived at my (beloved) gym about a month into my quit and found the parking lot empty but for two huge moving vans and men carrying all the equipment out of the building into the vans. I had been there just the day before and everything seemed normal. I learned that they had lost their lease (had been in negotiations up until the night before for a longer term but no dice). Closed! That was early on a Saturday morning and after doing my workout at the nearby gym that my membership had automatically been transferred to, I spent the whole day shopping around for a new gym. Each one had its pluses and minuses but the very last one I went to was the one. So big, beautiful and clean, tons of machines and equipment and not 1, not 2, not 3 but FOUR pools, steam room and sauna and yes, more money but SO worth it especially now. I live in 2 places, so this gym is for Thursday-Sunday. Also got a new Nordic Track elliptical for the Sunday-Thursday home. Best part of all this is, I'm either at the gym or on the machine at home almost every day and I'm feeling the positive effects and enhanced stamina since quitting. I feel so grateful to be able to do as much as I can.

Italian bread

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Singing this'll be the day that I die

Aha... Guess that must be the Portuguese version of "dude." Obrigado.

Olives!

Enchilada

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