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Happy Birthday! :)

Thanks Tracey :)

Saw this some where else, not sure if it has bern posted here or who wrote it... Ten Steps to Relapse 1. "Try" to quit. 2. Idealize life without smoking. 3. Associate your daily problems and disappointments with the fact that you're not smoking. 4. Begin to buy into the idea that you are more miserable now than before you quit. 5. Start responding to your problems with, "If this keeps up, I am going to smoke" then add "anyhow" then add "so why suffer anymore?". (Alternate 3-5) 3. Associate your success with the idea that you have licked the nicotine habit. 4. Begin to buy into the idea that you could smoke without getting hooked again. 5. Follow-up this idea with, "I have not smoked in ___ days/weeks/months/years" then add "I have not had any cravings" then add "I could have just one"). 6. Buy, borrow or steal a cigarette. 7. Find a quiet, secluded place where you can be alone with the substance to which you have attributed all power and promise for fulfillment of your needs. 8. Feel yourself calming down even before you light up, which is actually the Nicodemon ceasing to scratch at your insides as you prepare to feed the addiction. 9. Light-up and suck in all the poison you can get in that first drag, while beginning the battle against being disappointed in yourself, noticing that this fight is not half as ferocious as it was to get the nicotine. 10. Within a few hits, feel dizzy, cough a little, smell the stink, and realize you are re not going to stop smoking that cigarette, you will keepmsmoking despite the bad feelings, and wish you had not given in.

Rowly, grind it out, wait and ride the craves like waves. Distract yourself......I was just thinking about how when I first quit, I felt like I was melting and my whole body was screaming for that cig. I waited and waited and ignored and distracted.....here it is only nine months later, not really a long time, and there is no desire to smoke anymore. A miracle really after 35 years of a pack a day.

Hi Mason, if you are quit now, why not set up your ticker for a little inspiration and pick your avatar? Do you have your water and juice ready for the detox?

Doing Atkins induction. So I just walked today, 55 minutes. .....

Tracey, have fun! :)

I dreamed about smoking too, while I was in Russia. Strange

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Congrats on your one week! ;)

I took my leftovers, wet them, and tossed them in the garbage.

There is nothing natural about drying leaves, coating them in chemicals, rolling them into a tube to light on fire, stick into our mouth and inhale. How our lungs must fight in protest.

Comrade, at nine months I find that the thoughts have faded except when I am driving. The diea of being a former smoker is still there but I know it is getting better and better day by day, Today I saw someone smoking and it struck me as odd how someone had a burning stick hanging out of their mouth.

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Petra, awesome! I am very happy to see your 11 month celebration! A big congratulations to you. Almost time for the Lido! :) :) :)

Nancy, Happy Birthday!,:)

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Nothing green?

I am currently detoxing from sugar with a headache and ketosis breath. :treaten: Atkins

Logged in from work just to say how great! Congratulaions! :)

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Hi Melody, alot of work I am sure but seems exciting too. I visited Alaska and it was beautiful. Stay in touch

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Brittany, good job! Keep going. :)

Congratulations! :) :) :)