Evelyn

Now the Bandit it's turn!

Lord, give them strenght in the time they have to wait for the results and heal Tony. YOU Lord can do this and from you we may ask and receive. Shalom for you both!

Already openend a topic ;) but congratulations!

I KNOW chronic pain and ptsd. Still quit, maybe with help of patches and the board and I'm not saying it will be piece of cake, but you can do this. Cigarettes do nothing for you when your in emotional pain or having flashbacks. Go for it!

white?

Has anyone seen it? Worth watching?

I look up to those celebrations and you got 6 months in the pocket; VERY cool!

Throw a Christmas ball Doreen!

Congratulations!

Way to rock on, keep it up and I quote Bakon: 'keep marchin'

WELCOME!!! I keep my patch on at night, only because I would wake up due cravings. In the morning I take the old one off and put on a new one on clean skin, not washed with soap!!!! I discovered that here in the Netherlands we have two brands of patches and Nicorette (gum / patch / spray) is way more concentrated somehow. I use Niquitin, the patch, you can look through and it has 4 angels (dunno how to translate) the one I mentioned above is skincolor and round. I used gum but during a mental trial I picked in the station store for patched, the 21 mg. And I'm glad I did. Now 2 weeks further I'm on step 2 14 mg and doing well the cravings are mainly mental; caused by the idea 'what if the patch falls off or like yesterday me thinking going down one step means less nicotine which causing a mental craving while in fact I only wanna smoke because I've used off and on patches / smoking for the last then years. Right now I AM SUCCESFULL. I am telling you my mental fears about going on later on without nicotine because the patches gave me a false feeling of safety. Don't let it get that far; use them and go down a step whenever you feel like it's okay. The patch CAN be a great way to support you quit. So can all those other pills, gums etc. But it's US who need to stick with NOPE. I use a patch now because I'm doubtfull that if I just pull it off my body I THINK I start having withdrawals. + my mental fears so I finish the steps and then I tie myself to the board the day I continue without nicotine. I've done the same, patch on, patch off for a smoke... but that way your only torturing yourself. Stand for you quit, CHOOSE to QUIT

Stick with N.O.P.E. (not one puff ever) you repeat this every day and every craving.

Yay, well done Karen! Congratulations!

I'm not following, here! But Bakon if it helps I got a tree up before Thanksgiving

Good but last nite my path slightly let go and I didn't even notice

You beat me, today but I agree and say NOPE

All clear

Praying for you both

No, sometimes I let them run free in the hallway

Got my humor back, smile too

Had a horrible day. Overrated fears, a friend who was supposed to come over for Christmas phoned me and 'set a boundary' telling me she wasn't sure if she wanted to come because I snapped at her and apologized in the same conversation yetserday. While in whole the universe she can't set boundaries, I suddenly crossed one. After all my peptalk about setting boundaries to her abusive therapist etc. All my support... I'm worth any penny? WTF?!?! Right now I got my humor back, horse too :P but boy I had quite a day!

Snacked half a bag of mini fake snickers etc.

Yeehaa. That's the way. Congrats

Therapy was short but good. We sorted out my base of fears to succeed or with nicotine or a task in church. Both are based on fear over fear. Nothing in real.