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@Dianne 😂What even was that? I feel like I’ve lost something irretrievable by watching that. 😂Seriously, is this even a thing? Curses! I do want some 🍉 now. LOL

I’ll be here waiting on you! In the meantime just keep breathing in all of that fresh air! 🙌

Hello and welcome @kitchen_shower! Thankful for the patches! I am just 24 hours in to having no patch on! I quit smoking and started at the 14mg patch on March 17th. So 10 weeks of patches. I am going through some withdrawals. Not too annoying, but they are there and they are real. I’m having to use all distractors, I’m on here almost non-stop, my guard is up! I can tell that it wouldn’t take much for me to slap a patch back on. But I don’t want to. And I will not go back to smoking. The patches definitely ease the wickedness of the withdrawal but eventually you will have to finish up with the patches and though it’s a little rough, it’s not too bad. When that time comes make sure you stay close. We are all here to quit and to support others in their quits! Hope to see you around the forum!

Find a new series to read. That would drive me batty.

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Eggs Benedict

Rally on people

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So thankful every thing turned out okay Kat. I will keep you in my thoughts today.

Oh I wholeheartedly believe it. And I think that more and more people believe it too. Now that such discussions are not automatically relegated to behind closed doors.

Thank you @Mee! I can do this. I’m a little anxious, but nothing too bad yet. Staying busy and staying close.

I wouldn’t know about the guy thing. I think we ladies assume y’all can’t control it either way. lol or you know that just may have come up in a conversation once during ladies night out or something 🥴

😂Sure you can call me bud, Gene! 🤘 Also, I am counting on a lot of my anxiety lifting once I get the rest of this nicotine out of my system. Next Tuesday, I think that I will call myself nicotine free and celebrate HUGELY!!! I’m really excited about it too! I don’t know much about CBT. I’m not really that big into the psych stuff. I know quite a few that got help from it, but most of those are on some type of treatment medication now. And I do not want that. I smoked like a freight train and yet I’ve always been leery about what kind of medications I take!!! BaHaHaHa I just realized how much of a hypocrite I am. 🙄

Thanks @Dianne! I believe that I can do this! I know that y’all have my back, I need only ask! STAY BUSY. STAY CLOSE. Thanks @Ascension3030! I absolutely know that it’s going to be a rough few days. I’ve already gone through it on my initial quit and when I stepped down from the 14mg patch to the 7mg. But yeah, this is with NO nicotine in my system at all. It’s frightening. Anxiety and depression sucks. But I think that one of my end goals of having quit smoking is to deal with my bouts of anxiety and depression head on. I was still hiding behind the nicotine before, so the issues were never fully dealt with and the grip they have on my mind never lessened. I hope to change that. I have not allowed myself to replace smoking with another addiction because I eventually want to deal with and get rid of the mental baggage I’ve been dragging around my whole life. Oh and I don’t know if you realize that I’m a ‘girl Gus’. HaHa My dad had some fascination with Caesars in general and decided to give me the middle name Augustus. The feminine Gussie never stuck, so I’m Gus. ✌️

Ahhh..I remember the initial improved breathing. And how much sweeter the air seemed. As far as circulation goes, all I can tell is that I don’t get as cold as I used to. I’m glad that your quit is going so well! Oh and can I start calling you Gene? LOL Every time I see your profile picture I see Gene Simmons and think of KISS! 😂🤘

Thanks Linda! 🤗 I think that you are awesome too!

Thanks! @Doreensfree I just want to return the favor! I would not have survived without you guys!! 🤗 Yes! @PeachFuzz longing for the day I have no thought for a cigarette. Consciously or subconsciously.

Thank you @Robbie! I have a few of the patches left, in case that happens. But I’m going to have to go through it now or later, so I may as well get it out of the way. 🤗

I inadvertently quit the nicotine patches before schedule y’all. In the middle of the night Monday I had some 24 hour stomach bug hit me. I absolutely thought of nothing but sleep and how miserable I was. Late Tuesday it dawned on me that I hadn’t put on a new patch, so I figured that if I had gone 10 hours without one—I was done. I have a touch of anxiety knowing it’s not there. My body and mind knows it’s not there. I’ve purposely reached for cigarettes that are not there once already today. I’m going to need to stay busy, busy today and the next few days, but I’m anxious because my energy levels are non-existent after having been so ill. But I will survive. I have to.

Yams

Seven empty seats

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I’m sorry that you had such a distressing day today, Kat. Glad that you held it together and did not smoke. 🙌Awesome! And may tomorrow be a hundred times better.