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I haven't been following them recently but I believe the Canada's only team is in "rebuild" mode so they will not be going anywhere buy maybe fishing this October Good luck to everyone else who has a horse in this race

It's often the case that the anticipation of what "might happen" is worse than what actually does happen after we quit. It's not unusual to be surprised, and pleased, when this happens Understanding the addiction and focusing on the benefits you start seeing rather than the misery of early quit days helps a lot!

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^^^ This is very important - education about the addiction! It opens your mind up to see this addiction for what it really is. Then, it's easier to quit and stay quit once you understand it does nothing positive for you. Robs your health, your wallet and turns you into a slave. The addiction needs you to feed it ..... constantly!

^^^ This is me too My only complaint is that it all went to one place - stomach

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Looks to me like that one on the far right is getting the Sweaty Buttocks

Eeeewww ...........sweaty buttocks? .......................NO thanks

I too remember in the early days of my quit, a day seemed like a whole week. It was if time was almost standing still! Not sure why. Maybe just because of sensory overload? It was brutal. That and the seething anger/frustration I felt boiling up inside me almost constantly. It was pure luck that I didn't do harm to any poor unsuspecting person during my early quit days Seems so long ago now. It's hard to think about those days now that it's a distant memory but it was very real for a time.

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Welcome DF! You've made a great choice in quitting. Please hand around here and read as much as you can during the early days and watch some of Joel's videos about smoking (there's a whole separate page for those). Education about the addiction and how it works will be key to your quitting and staying quit. Keep that list hand so you can look at it whenever the craving to smoke threatens to push you backwards. Keep your goal fresh in mind always and be strong in your commitment - say NOPE every day in the NOPE thread (Not One Puff Ever)! See you around

TobacNO - nothing and yet everything is normal when you're quitting ; if you get what I'm saying? It's uncharted territory for all of us when we first quit and our bodies and minds react in different ways I guess. It's more a matter of how you react to those changes that will dictate whether it's going to be a problem for you and for how long. Eventually, everything returns to normal except, we are no longer killing ourselves by inhaling poison every day

Good to see you're still a quitter Jack Matters not how you're doing it as long as you keep doing it! Feels great the further you go without smoking doesn't it?

There are many symptoms related to quitting smoking and not everyone experiences all of them although we all experience some. It matters not which one's we experience individually providing we deal with them and not go back to smoking because of them. Learning to focus on the positive benefits that come our way rather than on the negative symptoms is important as it makes the quitting process less difficult. As we all know, quit symptoms are only temporary. Benefits from quitting are permanent

Wow! 8 Months smoke free today! Congrats CL. Hope you celebrate yet another milestone in your forever quit. Give yourself a pat on the back for all the hard work you've done to get here

3/4 way to the Lido Deck tocevoD! Terrific job you've done solidifying your quit. Be sure to reward yourself for reaching yet another milestone in this journey. I'm sure you're very proud and happy, as you should be

Congrats on 9 months smoke free Fab! You are three quarters of the way to the Lido Deck now. Celebrate the occasion my friend

Great work LT! 2 months is fantastic and proof that you are in this for the long term Reward yourself then carry on building and protecting that quit.

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