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WOW! A half year quit 🤩 Congrats @Brioski!!
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,Those clear plastic bags at the grocery store in the produce area (that refuse to open when you have a couple of apples or potatoes in one hand). I swear they were invented to turn a short shopping trip into an all day affair 🤬
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Good Job! Carry on @tocevoD.
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Spot on @Sandi149 😘
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Not sure I really had any strategy or rational for quitting. Perhaps my rational was suddenly realizing that I was doing great damage to myself & had been for decades so it was now or never to make a change. That realization happened one morning as I stood in a cold damp parking lot loading groceries into my car and reaching for a cig. Lighting up I coughed and coughed, as I had been doing all month due to having had yet another episode of bronchitis. I suppose it was an epiphany of sorts. I just suddenly knew I HAD to quit! Had my last smoke next morning at 8:00 AM then went about distracting myself and keeping as busy as possible though that first day (a Sunday) Took the next two days off work and just sheltered in place like a hermit. Somehow made it through those days that seemed like one giant urge to smoke. Went to work in a haze of brain fog the next day and somehow made it through. The experience had become so horrible and so overwhelming to me that it became a challenge. Who would win the war of wills? Me or my addiction to nicotine? The longer things went on the more determined I became to win this war no matter how long it took. Before I know it, although at the time it seemed like a very long time, I knew I had the upper hand and those urges became less frequent, less intense and less bothersome. Now today, I rarely think of smoking and when I do, it's not fondly at all! I pity people I see still smoking or vaping and I regret not having made the decision to quit earlier in life. Nothing I can do to change that now but I'm absolutely sure I will never smoke again!!
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I know that YOU know; that wouldn't help this or any other stressful/emotional situation. In fact, smoking would only deepen your regret over the events. No one is worth throwing away a precious quit for - no one! Quitting is about YOU and your better future and that needs to be your primary focus right now. If there's some wreckage left behind ... so be it but I expect this will resolve at some point.
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Oh my! Don't understand why her husband is livid when none of what went on was about him. He was just a bystander - WOW! Seems extreme to me. Hopefully they settle down at some point? Probably no point in calling the husband to wish him a Happy BD 🤐
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