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You are nasty Nicotine!

Trisha76
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Oh I have been so irritable the last two days. Just stupid little things are setting me off and I’m having a hard time calming myself down. Today I finally realized it was the nicotine that was making me so irritable and I am at day 44 so I was not expecting this. Also I have never had to calm myself down without a cigarette!  I was expecting the normal feeling in my gut but no nicotine decided to attack my emotions.  And normally I am a nice person— Thank goodness I have not been around anyone because I have been grouchy USA!
Now that I have figured this out, I am back to the basics and telling myself NOPE etc.  Already I have settled down.  It is amazing what smokers have to go through to get clean and healthy particularly after smoking for 50 years.

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I started smoking at 25 and it took me a year to learn to inhale so I really was hooked by 26. I have smoked 50 years and quit August 11, 2020 so today is my 28th day. My husband of 54 years died March 1 and he had smoked for 65 years. I knew when he died I would quit as I had tried 5 times before but his smoking made me jealous or I could smell it. Used him as an excuse to start smoking again. I am retired from a university. Raised in Nebraska and living in Iowa since 1978.