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You amaze me! @AceWhite You are unstoppable!

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The actions of smoking seemed to disappear immediately with. Holding something between my fingers or my lips. Things like that just stopped. I hardly noticed that I didn’t do them anymore. Easy Peasy. That craving for nicotine? That is an addiction. So totally NOT the same as a habit. Not even close.

Good Morning All!!!

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-16 I don’t think he’ll notice. HaHa Or care!

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-13 and it must needs be done!

-11 This is kind of ho-hum, @jillar. HaHa Sticks must be napping.

Hey Robbie! I’ll be 7 weeks quit Wednesday! Trust me, I let those tears fall like rain. Although I hated them; that they were brought on by weakness; I knew that they were cleansing. This is my first quit. My only quit. I can’t go through that again. I know it. It’s not in me. So, I WILL prevail. I don’t crave cigarettes. Maybe because of the patches? I get anxious—really anxious from maybe 3-9 p.m. Probably some kind of weird sundowner thing. Nothing with me is ever simple. LOL But enough about me. I do hope that this quit will stick for you. And I hope we can both shake the doldrums. I hope to follow your quit and will be here to encourage you and well, just chat the mundane. I spend a lot of time here. It has been a mind saver, as well as a life saver. I do hope the best for you! Take care!

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That WAS me!

Not anymore, girl. Not. Anymore.

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Kate18. Thank you. I really want to quit. I have quit. I’m going to stay quit. I suffer from depressive anxiety and the slow draw from nicotine has to better for me than cold turkey because what I’ve experienced so far would have been so much worse without the patches and I KNOW that I would not have made it through. I am going to only do 3 to 4 weeks of the 7mg patch though. I don’t feel the need to do the 6-8 week routine. Bunch of money grubbing corporations wrote the directions for patch use. HaHa I actually skipped the 21mg patches altogether and I am so proud of myself for that. Thank you for the encouragement. Everyone on here has been so supportive.

I’ve had a real downer of a day. Really teary eyed. Not as bad as when I first quit, but still thankful that I didn’t have to be out in public. I don’t know if it’s the reduction of nicotine because I started the 7mg patch yesterday or because of everything else going on in my life. I’m sure it’s both. But I’m hoping for a brighter day tomorrow even though it’s supposed to be quite stormy. The weather affects my state of mind too. A lot going on, but smoking ain’t one of them!

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Lie: I am a homebody. I hate leaving the house. I would be perfectly fine never having to leave my house. Truth: I didn’t want to be the only one smoking. I didn’t want to have to sneak off and try to grab a few puffs off a cigarette. I didn’t want to have to fight and suppress the withdrawal symptoms of not being able to have a cigarette if I had to be somewhere that smoking was not allowed. Everyone probably knew the real reason why I would never go anywhere and I would lie to myself about that too. Of course they knew.

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Amazing!! Here in this fabulous forum for life? You betcha!!! A definite Godsend!