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@dvs51 said: I agree. Mine is still, obviously, in training, but I think you're right. It's the biggest weapon smoking has against us but it can be turned into the biggest weapon we have against it. Keep training that brain of yours! Right now, the battle is to ignore what ever junkie thoughts your presented with. Fight like hell to avoid allowing those thoughts to take you down. I learned to hate that wooing of nicotine memory that lies to us by whispering that just one will fix everything when in fact it would destroy everything you've gained since beginning your quit. That's why NOPE is so critical at this early point to every quitter. The deeper you can bury those memories of smoking and that junkie thinking, the sooner you can take back your life & live it as it was meant to be lived. It just takes time, repetition & commitment!

Nice one @Sazerac (Big Easy )

Yup; our junkie brains are our worst enemy at times in our early quit days but you know what? Those same brains can be retrained to become our greatest protectors once we've been clean for a longer period of time

That's exactly what I did when ayt work and started getting antsy .. go for a stroll, even if just within our small office area or outside in the parking area for a couple of mins.; just enough time for the intense crave to pass (they don't last that long normally).

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Nope! Never again.

Congrats on your 10th year of smobriety @Cbdave! A bug milestone for sure.

The boredom you experience after quitting may be at least partially because once we quit we actually end up with so much more time to fill in our daily lives. Add up how many cigs you smoked per day and multiply that by the average time it took to smoke each one. That's the empty time you need to fill now that you've quit with more productive things to do in your daily life. It takes time to learn how to best fill that void but you will do it all in good time and once you do, it will seem like a seamless transition and you'll feel a lot more "normal" just going about your day to day life. Keep at it @dvs51; you'll get there!

Welcome & congrats on making the best decision of your life! You're right; it's so good to feel healthy and you CAN have that feeling for the rest of your life once you quit for good! Stay close to the site here for support from all of us and for the wealth of information that this site contains. Knowledge about this addiction and how it works to keep people coming back is a powerful tool in your effort to quit and stay quit! Hope to see you around

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Congrats on 12! Many more to come as well!!

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Congrats LFL! 9 years is such a long time. I'm sure you never imagined being smoke free that long back when you first decided to quit. Just goes to show what good things can happen when we apply ourselves to making an inportant change in out lifestyle

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-4 What's going on here? @Cbdave is a chick now???

Nope! Not today.