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10 years smoke free is awesome MQ! And thank you so much for the QT. I would not be quit without this place and the people who have been and continue to be a part of it.

Ugh. Life’s changes. I’m sorry for your diagnosis. An anti inflammatory diet helps tremendously also.

I ran across this article this morning and found it very interesting. At least I know why I could eat a pack of Oreos in one sitting now. Fricking Nicodemon scientist engineered them to be so totally irresistible, that’s why! So happy that I haven’t bought any in well over a year. I wonder just how bare my shelves would be if I threw out all of the foodstuffs in them that were made by tobacco owned companies? https://georgiastarnews.com/news/tobacco-company-owned-food-brands-more-tempting-than-competitors-addiction-study/tcsquare/2023/10/02/

OMG If he’d have fanned those smokes in my face it would have been on! Floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee.

LOL Yeah. Looks real enough to me and I do know some real dumbasses. If enough alcohol is involved, that is.

Add my 36,935 to the fire! Note to self: Don’t hang around and play with it, you might get burned.

Take care @MLMR! Take care to ground and strengthen yourself daily. Get up. Get out. Go forward. Baby steps if you’ve gotta. Then you come back here ready to take giant leaps and bounds to get this addiction done and gone for good. We will be here waiting.

Congratulations on your 2 year quit @JustSomeGuy!

Congratulations Stew! You are doing great!

Congratulations @bakon! Celebrate!!!

Congratulations on your 4th month quit @QuittingGirl! Celebrate! Celebrate! Celebrate!

Congratulations @Rajag! 100 months is an awesome milestone! You have every right to be so very extremely proud of yourself!

Congratulations on your 3 year quit! You are doing great. Make sure to reward yourself!

@Kate18!

This is wonderful info @breath! And an early congrats on your 22 year quit! Awesome!

Congratulations Bri on your 7 month of being quit! You’ve got the wind in your sails so sail on!

Hop down off that fence M and try this again. We are here for you and want to see you quit forever. You are so clever with your words. Use them. Day and night. Whenever you have the need. No matter the tone.

The gift of failure is knowledge if you are wise and you have acknowledged and named some truths here, Stew. Thanks for sharing so that I and others know to remain vigilant in guarding are quits. We are all vulnerable. We like to say we are not, but the truth is that we are human and we all slip up, we all make mistakes.

Niiiice.

@Reciprocity I do hope that your story puts a heavy conviction upon your friend to quit and leave his addictions behind. Cigarettes, weed, and vaping? I feel sorry for him. Maybe check on him in 6-8 weeks to see if he mentions anything? But how did the fishing go? Me too Yoda. Me too. But I will say that I was shut up in a car with a smoking brother and sister last week and I literally got nauseated. My eyes were burning and my throat started hurting. Seriously took a shower, washed my hair, brushed my teeth, and immediately laundered the clothes I had on when I got home. It was bad.

Congratulations Sunshine! 4 years quit is awesome.

Congratulations Garry! 7 years is awesome!

At least you are are ready, willing, and able to try again! You know the drill.