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True (sort of .... lost on snowmobile trails that were in the woods) NP has been in hospital for an operation?

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JH - 8 GM - 9 carry on sticks!

fiddleheads - sort of a spinach kind of thing but early season like asparagus.

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Thanks a lot my fellow quitters for your continued support. It's made a real difference to my quit when things got a little shaky at times :) Those shaky times seem a long way behind me now. I'm locked into "maintain & protect" mode the past couple of months. So, any newbies reading this out there, give it a try! You can do it too if you really want it :)

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It's almost embarrassing how the chicks have been complimenting us lately :D

Congratulations bjean on achieving this really significant milestone. You haven't had an easy go of it with your health issue but you managed to make it through. Celebrate your amazing achievement then it's head down and push onward. It's tough sledding in the beginning but things will only get easier from here on.

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I think our quits are always very different, even for the same person who might quit a number of different times. Getting over the craving is only one aspect of smoking. I think the biggest battle is training our minds to function normally without smoking. That's what the real challenge has been for me anyway. The physical symptoms you mention can happen to anyone during the first month in particular. Those symptoms are almost too many to name and vary from person to person. The good news is that, given time, they all go away. Getting the quit WELL established is Job 1 during the first months of quitting. How many months? Well, that too varies from person to person. For me, it was about 5-6 months before I felt pretty much completely "safe". Now, that doesn't mean I was struggling a lot during all those proceeding months - no! It just means that after 5 to 6 months, it would have taken a truly bizarre event to make me stick a cigarette into my mouth and light it up. I think you will find that the concerning physical symptoms you are feeling currently will start to resolve themselves fairly soon or at least start evening out a little.

False. My family accuses me of doing 1/2 Hugs. NP likes horror movies :)

Lamb (rack of; med-rare w/just some center pink. OMG, I just made myself drool)

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Oh, you mean like this?

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