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Please take a look at this video and read the resource information about Quitting Smoking For A Specific Event or Time Frame Your quit must be separate from life events. Your quit must stand on it's own and not be tied to anything else. I fear that now you are done with surgery, you will fall into addiction again. Please reaffirm your commitment, Every Day and stay FREE.

Nicotine is pretty much gone from your body. Now, the restructuring of your brain by choosing freedom over the slavery of addiction. YOU are doing great, Linda. There will be good days and bad days, good hours and bad for a while. The more you can accentuate the positive, the easier you will have it.

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Congratulations, on your First Week of Freedom ! Think of some rewards for yourself, you won't be needing many more railroad spikes, sugar.

How did I miss this ?? Congratulations G on your FOUR years of Freedom. So happy for you ! Hope you had celebrations, baby.

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Learn all you can about nicotine addiction and defend your quit as you would a newborn. Protect it with your life...because it IS all about your LIFE. and Your FREEDOM. You don't need NRT's to quit. You need a commitment, this is all. and you need that commitment with any method of quitting.

Hey Darcy, REWARD yourself for conquering this one ! You did a great thing tonight. One huge brain receptor claimed for yourself !

sleep and remember who you are ! You are a fabulous nicotine free woman ! and you are one of us, too !!!!

Darcy, What else is going on. Riffing on H A L T

This isn't about smoking really, is it ? You've got a FOUR MONTH run of FREEDOM going on ! I had some gruesome triggers/craves late into my quit. You know what to do. Breathe. Take Some Water. Take a run or a walk or a shower. This feeling will subside.

Darcy ! Baby cakes ! You are not a smoker ! Let us find something else for you to do, please baby ! Remember your house IS YOUR HOUSE and You make the rules.

Here is Cristóbal's great thread Your Quit & Your LIfe, The Proper Sequence I know it is difficult changing smokey thoughts into other thoughts. I trained myself to concentrate on breathing and find something of beauty to give me a bump of endorphins. I found beauty all around me. That light on that leaf. A cloud. A certain color. The feel of silk or velvet or the bark of a tree, flowing water. The scent of lemons. A perfume. Revisit a beautiful memory. Listening to a favored piece of music or reading a favorite story or poem. (or writing one !) Even faking a smile will start endorphins working. These simple practices will serve you throughout your life when you encounter stress or pain or fear.

Look, Michelle. It doesn't matter what happens in your life, your quit MUST be sacrosanct ! Stop giving junkie thoughts power. They only have the power you give them.

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Hey Macky Mac, Congratulations on your Three Months of Freedom ! You have built a fabulous sturdy and successful quit and shown a beacon to those following you. Thank you so much for all your contributions here, it makes me so happy to see a newbie post so often and get involved in the community because I know that is a sure sign of a forever quit. Hope you celebrated wildly. S

here are some entries on what helped us during the First Days Nicotine Free I think you are the first to admit to Railroad Spikes but, I chomped on a few myself.

in case you're jones-ing

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