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-18 Not today Doreen's likely sawing a log by now!

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-7 I'm freezing!

Listening to the ice pellets and freezing rain pinging off windows around the house and watching the occasional change over to large flakes of snow. I used to like spring. Was a time of flowers blooming, trees budding their leaves and the occasional warmish day. Not sure what's happened but the other night the low temp was -10 C. Today the high temp. 0 C Kind of makes the "stay in your house" protocol a no-brainer!

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Quitting smoking was probably the most turbulent period of my life and it did rock me to my very core at times having to will myself to just not light one up for another moment at times. I can remember being on the edge several times. Thankfully I somehow found the will power to keep saying NO! Just delaying it for a few minutes. As Doreen said about her plan .... just sticking to your self commitment not to smoke again no matter what ...... that's really all quitting boils down to. I really does get easier over time as well - that's not BS. It just happens very, very slowly. So slow you don't really notice it day to day. Yes, the sleepless nights, the anxiousness, anger and frustration and other symptoms certainly don't help at all and neither does the fact that time seems to be standing still in those early days but it's all part of the quit process. Grit your teeth and power through those early days. Once through, those hellish days will never return

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-2 What happened?

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I'm sorry to hear you have chosen to give up on yourself because who knows when you'll feel ready to try again. Could be years and will that be too late? This isn't about us, it's about YOU & your future. It's a matter of what you really want for yourself years down the road. Please give it more thought!

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-1 we're just not focusing yet

Come on now. If I can you it ..... so can YOU!

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Patience Lady. The nicodemon is crafty in what he will use against us to have us begin the feeding cycle again. Don't be lured into the lies he's telling you. Hold tight to the reasons you quit for in the first place. The difficult days will pass because every battle you win makes you stronger and sucks the life out of that nicodemon. Slowly but surely you are taking back control of your life!

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