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In keeping with the Navy theme ...............

Haha .... wow! Yet another sticks win :) OO

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NOPE! And Happy 20th Anniversary to you & your Mrs. Jimmy :)

True (not short anyway) TNP lives in a detached house?

anchovies

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False TNP drives a truck rather than a car?

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NOPE!

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False (they rejected me for some reason??) TNP has an allergy of some sort?

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^^^^ All of this stuff above Sahnakor. It's all true and YOU can do this; just like many of us here have done it. There's no short-cuts, you just gotta do it and you have a great start on it already so, be proud and keep refusing to smoke!

Yeah - food poisoning sucks. Hope you're better soon!

It's very natural to have increased levels of anxiety in the early stages of quitting. I was a nervous wreck for a good portion of the first month of my quit so I just had to wait it out, knowing it would get better at some point and guess what ............. it did :) Don't listen to that voice in your head telling you that smoking will fix your anxiety. That's not true. You are still in the very early part of your quit and your brain hasn't retrained itself to deal with day to day life as a non-smoker - hence the increased anxiety. What to do with all that extra time you have now. How to deal with being happy or sad and not including smoking. How to deal with stressful situations without smoking. The list goes on and on. This process of your brain retraining itself WILL happen but it takes time so, do whatever you have to but just don't smoke. If you smoked a cigarette right now, it would NOT be the pleasurable mecca you think it would be. The taste would be horrible, you would likely choke and cough. Emotionally, you would regret it as soon as you had done it because your shiny 7 day quit would be gone! And, within 30 minutes of finishing that cigarette, your brain would be screaming for more nicotine. Remember? You're an addict and you would be re-introducing nicotine back into your body again - don't do it!! Would you really want to ever go through those first 7 days of quitting again as well? We all go through this stuff Shanakor and so can you. Stay committed and it WILL get better.

Good to see you are still with us Jimmyss. Thanks for the info. :)

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NOPE!

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That's too bad as you need to have some fun while you're quitting just because it can all get pretty overwhelming at times so a little break is good providing you can do it and keep your quit. We all have to put on our Big Boy/Girl Pants at some point and face the tough situations in order to conquer them. Just make sure you're ready when you do :) Like I said before, you can have some fun & keep your quit too! Besides, if you ever lose you quit, Doreen will come after you like this ............

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