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Hey @Sunshine. Welcome to the 3 month club! Hope you're doing great.

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Skip the underwires – find freedom! girls

1. make the bed

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9. use for boot laces

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1. Braid a lanyard.

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Thanks, everyone! These past three months have been quite a journey into "parts unknown." I really don't think I would have made it this far without all of you. Thanks so much for helping me to find my way and build a strong quit.

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Glad to have you back on the Train, @Kdad. Nice work on your two days so far - here's to many more to come!

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Harley Davidson "hogs"

Way to go, @Katgirl! 12 months, what an amazing, life-affirming change. Looks like there is a party in your honor starting on the upper deck!

Three months is such a big achievement, @JudiMD. Well done!

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Thanks for bumping this, @jillar. Now that I'm well beyond the chemical withdrawal phase of my quit, I'm noticing that my actual urges to smoke have not gone away. They are more manageable - and I have a stronger toolkit for coping with them. But The deep desire/urge to smoke persists. This post points to part of why. One factor that contributed to my smoking was trying to numb-out and evade some inner conflicts (and some outer ones, too). Another was unmet needs. Now that I've quit smoking, I'm called into a deeper reckoning with these forces in my life. Ouch. I believe that denial is "nature's shock absorber." It serves a purpose in our psyche, and shouldn't be entirely avoided. I used smoking to serve this purpose, but quitting does not mean I have to be relentlessly hammered with discomfort. Talk about a disincentive to keep the quit! All it means is that I need to come up with some different ways to take a break or shift my energies when needed... ways that don't entail sticking something toxic in my mouth and setting it on fire. As @Boo has said elsewhere on the forum (and I'm paraphrasing), there are 999 things I can do with this moment, and just one thing I can't do - smoke. Here's to focusing on the 999.

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11 months... that's awesome! Thanks for the inspiration!