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That's the way to look at it in these early days Shanakor - 1 day, 1 hour or even 1 minute at a time to manage your cravings to smoke. Don't think about what will be happening or how you will be feeling a week or a month from now. That will take care of itself and you, like everyone else, will be feeling a lot better down the road providing you don't smoke. You have already developed a useful tool for yourself to manage those cravings (your timer) and that's a good thing. Plus, you are coming here for support and information - also a good thing. The early part of quitting can be a real roller coaster because you are up one day and down the next sometimes. That will smooth out the longer you stay quit. That inability to focus or concentrate is also very normal in the early quit. Some call it "brain fog". That too will clear for you at some point. That anxious feeling you probably have will also go away in time as your brain rewires itself to life as a non-smoker. As you're finding out, there's no magic pill to just avoid all the unpleasant symptoms of quitting smoking. You have to just go through all these things to get out the other side and be truly free of this horrible addiction. So you just hang in there Shanakor and do the hard work that's required to get this thing done! We're routing for ya :)

You're doing great Jack :) As Pedro said, the hardest part is done now. You are by no means done with your journey to complete freedom but things should be starting to get easier for you to manage. Rewiring your brain to react to everyday life as a non-smoker takes a long time but that process WILL happen gradually and as it does your urges to smoke and even thoughts of smoking will become fewer and fewer. Look at me. I'm only just over 7 months quit which may seem like a long time but it isn't really. I was exactly where you are at a few short months ago and I can tell you for sure, if you hang in there and refuse to smoke, you too will be easily able to just ignore this addiction one day soon as well. I hope you are also starting to notice some nice benefits of being a non-smoker now. What's the part you like best so far?

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Glad to hear. I am horrible at diet issues, not to mention any regular exercise discipline so you have my complete admiration :)

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Hey You ........................... buzz-off! -1

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You'll be about the only one heading south if you go :o

False. NP has served on a jury.

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^^^ Both of you are right :P

Have a very Happy Birthday Marti!!

Hi and welcome to our family of quitters :) You may find this place a little quieter at times than previous forums you have been involved with but that can be a good thing too as we can all devote more time to new quitters coming along that may need some help and advice. We do like to have some fun over here too from time to time. You will see that as you drill down through some of the social pages I'm sure. By the way - congrats on that substantial quit!! I'm sure you will have a lot of great advice to offer.

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You had the window-lickers looking after that stuff before. There won'[t be any issues now :P

OK - you guys figure it out ...............