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Congrats on reaching two years smoke free @Linda!! Celebrate!

Best thing you could possibly do @Nat!!!!! Hope your Covid moves along quickly and you get back to normal fast. You'll be so much healthier & happier as a non-smoker so resist all temtation to light up again. Trusts us ... it's well worth it in the end! You're trading a short time of adversity for a lifetime of better health, wealth & self respect

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@dvs51 I was pretty sure you knew the drill but just wanted to reinforce the ideas, only because it can be a difficult time in early days. Hope I didn't come across as preachy . Sounds like you're headed in the right direction with a clear vision of whaere you want to be and how to get there - carry on.

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@dvs51 said: I agree. Mine is still, obviously, in training, but I think you're right. It's the biggest weapon smoking has against us but it can be turned into the biggest weapon we have against it. Keep training that brain of yours! Right now, the battle is to ignore what ever junkie thoughts your presented with. Fight like hell to avoid allowing those thoughts to take you down. I learned to hate that wooing of nicotine memory that lies to us by whispering that just one will fix everything when in fact it would destroy everything you've gained since beginning your quit. That's why NOPE is so critical at this early point to every quitter. The deeper you can bury those memories of smoking and that junkie thinking, the sooner you can take back your life & live it as it was meant to be lived. It just takes time, repetition & commitment!

Nice one @Sazerac (Big Easy )

Yup; our junkie brains are our worst enemy at times in our early quit days but you know what? Those same brains can be retrained to become our greatest protectors once we've been clean for a longer period of time

That's exactly what I did when ayt work and started getting antsy .. go for a stroll, even if just within our small office area or outside in the parking area for a couple of mins.; just enough time for the intense crave to pass (they don't last that long normally).

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