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900 Days!

YoungAtHeart
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Wow - this is amazing to me!  If I could do this - EVERYONE can.   Smoking now only enters my mind when I encounter an old trigger that I haven't gotten through much.   I HATE to shop and only go to a mall  if there is a present I have to go there to find.  I don't think I have actually been IN a mall since probably last Christmas season.   I was shopping and lugging, and overheated, and tired, and hungry and hating every minute of it.....and I thought..........maybe time for a cigarette break?  Then I actually laughed out loud!  The addiction stays with you, but it is a fleeting thought, nothing more!

I thought it might be helpful to the newly quit to read one of my early blogs (2 weeks).  I am living proof that all of us who have been successful have been through what you are going through:

https://excommunity.becomeanex.org/blogs/Youngatheart.7.4.12-blog/2012/07/19/come-on

Take heart!  It is not easy at times, but it is SO doable!

Just keep adding those days.  Freedom really IS grand!

Nancy

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I smoked until a vascular surgeon informed me of the damage I had done to myself by doing so. I quit 11 years ago, and I can swim laps virtually FOREVER now, walk most other days 40 minutes to an hour and a half. What a difference quitting has made in my life! I strive to help others find this wonderful freedom from addiction, too.