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Happy New Year everybody. It's been a quite the roller coaster ride for me since finding the train. In case I haven't said it before, thanks to all of you here for kind words and supportive advice to get me through this far. Wishing you all the very best for 2022.

@Gus My experience was that it was much easier to give up coffee than cigs, and by giving up the coffee it made giving up the cigs that much less traumatic. I still drink a cup every once in a while mostly as an excuse to get out of the house. But yeah, caffeine is no bueno for yoda.

@Davevat1 Welcome aboard the train and Happy New Year. It's ok to feel some apprehension but trust me, nothing bad will come from you not smoking. Vent all you need to, I did...a lot. It helps and so do the great folks on this board.

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@Angeleek This is a very welcome bit of news to hear that you feel like your brain is 100% recovered. I've read a lot about neural plasticity and remaking who you are by making new neural pathways. A very powerful way to doing this is to visualize yourself as the person you want to be. The difficult part is how to visualize yourself not doing something? I think the trick is to visualize the new you absent the thing you want to eliminate. So being smokers we don't want to try to visualize ourselves as nonsmokers, instead we picture the thing the we want and picture it so vividly that we totally lose sight of the thing that we don't want. Glad you achieved the goal and thanks for coming back and giving us recent quitters some much needed hope.

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