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The "After You've Quit" Smells

JonesCarpeDiem
4 11 97

"You can tell a lot from a litter box

and it's more intense to a smoker-not."

Some of you already heard Hoggie lost a third of his weight in 6 months.

After a lot of money for testing, they still couldn't find the cause

of his symptoms. They think it's a digestive disease or cancer but cannot tell me more without $800 of x-rays and ultrasound. I can't afford surgeries for cancer when it might only give him a short time longer. I thought it was pancreatic insufficiency because he had every symptom listed so the last tests were for that but they came out normal as well as the B-12 levels so, nope on that.

He's eating about 5 cans of food a day now where he used to eat 2.

Here's what I am doing which I believe gives true observations as to what is going on. I'm scooping his litter every day and checking poop formation. When he was very ill looking he had a lot of diarrhea and it was overly foul.

Now they look normal. I'm also taking him in for a steroid injection every 4 weeks to control inflammation in his digestive system.

Be prepared to smell better and worse smells after you've quit.

Litter and cigarettes,

Keep Them Away From Your Face

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hoggie face mask.jpg

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About the Author
Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.