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Hey thanks my favorite quit buddies :) I have been looking forward to this 1/2 year mark as a pretty major milestone in my quit journey. Next one I have my eye on now is the 1 year anniversary! I want to thank all of you on this board for the wealth of information that I've been able to use to my advantage in helping me quit and stay quit. I feel pretty solid in my quit now but still have a healthy respect for what this addiction is and what will happen if I do anything stupid. I want to keep that in mind always so I can remain quit for life because, as all you that went before me always said in the early part of my quit; "it will get easier if you just push forward and don't smoke" and guess what ........ it did! It's easy to manage now and will get even better in the next 6 months too I expect. Why would I ever throw that all away?

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I'll drink to that!

I quit cold turkey right from the start pretty much and now glad I did! Get that Nicotine out of your system asap then focus on the physiological part of quitting which is the longer term effort. Doing it in reverse seems counterintuitive to me.

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Not telling :P

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Haha .... Stewie calls everyone "lad". Male, female, even aliens!

Let's get started anyway :P

Hello :) You were before my time but I have seen you around occasionally and congrats on being almost 5 years smoke free - that's awesome. You are correct in what you say about being part of a support group. It's a key tool in helping build a solid quit. Something I never even thought of when I first quit so I'm certainly glad to have stumbled across this site in the early days of my own quit:)

4 Good Friday Morning :)

Whoa there Mammy ..... unless he's gonna sleep for 2 days, it'll be three sleeps but yes; nothing stopping us from partying all weekend !

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6 Turning into quite the battle here today!

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Glad to hear you have some positive direction from the Dr. that should help you along physically. Remember to use some deep breathing when anxiety gets the better of you. It may help with that. Remain focused on the positive things you have accomplished so far as well. You have been a non smoker for over a month now :) That's the best gift you could have possibly given yourself. Keep reading here and even re-read things to help keep them fresh in your mind. Now that you are this far along your quit path, having and keeping a positive attitude is very important and, it's something you can actually choose to do for yourself. Keep fighting Jewel - you're doing great :)