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Your quit family here cares about you Abby and it saddens us to hear you are dealing with the health struggles you are having to deal with but you have done the most important thing you could possible do in terms of your lung function by quitting smoking. Stay strong and let us know how things are going.

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Make sure there's no cats around! Nope!

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Great work Parsley 8 months smoke free IS solid!! You're really hitting it out of the park this time

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This same issue has come up in the past, a couple of times now. What did you do then to deal with the anxiety from having exams? Keep busy & distract yourself. Keep your mind occupied with something other than thoughts of smoking. You seem to be suggesting that smoking will take away the anxiety you feel about your exams. That's actually not the case. Smoking would only add another anxiety to your life. The additional anxiety nicotine addiction creates. Smoke 1 and withing an hour or so you will feel the anxiety building to light up another and so it goes. On and on without end. How does that solve your anxiety from exams? Life is full of stressful events and moments of anxiety for everyone. As non smokers, we have to learn to live our lives without smoking as a crutch or some kind of magical potion that takes away all our troubles - it doesn't. It just add to them.

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True! I put on my "good" jeans when company comes over TNP has a phobia?

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Sure, sure. That's your official answer but when nobody's looking it's ....................

Welcoming you to Quit Train as well Ferimeth! Quitting will be the most important thing you can do for a healthier future life so it is worth a short period of difficulty adjusting to life without cigarettes. You mentioned you had a burning sensation in your throat? I have not heard of that being related to quitting smoking although there are many temporary quit symptoms that people experience. If that keeps up, see a Dr. about it as it may be unrelated to your quitting. You also mentioned you had heard that it takes 23 days to break the addiction. Quitting is really a 2 part process. Ridding your body physically of nicotine, which means when you stop using the patch or any other form of nicotine, it will take approximately 3 days for all the nicotine to exit your blood stream. The longer process of quitting is the mental adjustment. That part takes a lot longer. You have to become comfortable again to living life without smoking. If you think about it, smoking really invades every aspect of your daily life so it takes awhile to adjust your thinking until you are once again comfortable functioning as a non smoker. You'll get there. Just keep at it. One day at a time will get you there.