DenaliBlues

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Tyrants

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Sorry you smoked, @Kdad. But thanks for telling us. Please stay around and try again! What can you learn from this experience to help you next time?

Yes, this is what addiction does. So liberating to be done with all the evasions, the minimizing, and the justifications. Freedom is sweet on a lot of levels.

NOPE

Seer

Rancor

Mumu

“So many?” What peer-reviewed clinical study has measured the incidence of shingles specifically during smoking cessation? Please quantify “so many” and provide your research citation, so that we all can learn from the science. I am very sorry for everyone who has suffered from shingles. It must be especially tough to go through that when quitting. My sympathies to everyone who has endured it. But what causes reactivation of the virus is a compromised immune system. Many factors can impede our bodies’ immune responses. Stress from quitting… OR stress from a tough job… OR family situations… OR a hundred other things. Quitting Girl’s observation that age gradually weakens our immunity and makes us more vulnerable is fact-based: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4928389/ https://www.healthline.com/health/what-causes-shingles-to-activate At the end of the day, I think the most important thing to take away from this thread is that sometimes life hands us double whammys. Unexpected illnesss. Deaths in the family. Relationship woes or money troubles. All of these things can really challenge a quit. It surely sucks when that happens. But what counts the most is how we’re able to persevere, KTQ and help each other out along the way.

Congratulations on 10 years! I love this story and its affirmation that we don’t need smoking to complete us. Withdrawal is hard, but so much freedom awaits on the other side. Thanks for sharing!

Everything Bagel

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Perjury

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N O P E

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Necromancers

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I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!