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43 days now, some positives. Anyone else?

dbarris
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Within 2 weeks of quitting, I thought I was imagining that I had better posture (it definitely felt like it and kinda looked like it walking past a store window).  Googled it, and sure enough, there's a connection.  Anyone else?

Especially if I put it on a yearly graph line, my smartwatch tells me my stress levels have really gone down over the past 6 weeks.  Anyone else?

Starting to see some improvements in my blood pressure, too.  Probably the lack of nicotine plus lower stress levels.  Anyone else?

Probably for same 2 reasons, the psoriasis on my hands and elbows has pretty much disappeared over the last 3 weeks or so.  Anyone else?

This is working for me . . .

 

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Hi, my name is Dave. I decided to quit pretty recently. At 62, I paused to take a look at my materialistically simple but very full life one day and I just felt like showing some respect and gratitude to mother nature for getting me this far, and then doing that for the rest of my life. Quitting smoking is a part of that. I'd been smoking about a pack a day for 30 years when I decided to taper down to 1/2 pack. Guess I held onto that for another 10 years. Deciding that quitting completely was probably going to be more of mental exercise than a physical addiction one, I joined this group, picked my date a month out, paid attention to the strategies, identified my triggers and made a list of MUCH more productive "mini chores" to do when a craving hit, took my time and tapered down to 5/day one month later. Had only 2 left the day before my quit day, finished those, haven't been back yet. That was only 2 weeks ago and some of the "stay quit" advice I've seen here is spot-on and continues to be helpful, so I'm sticking with it! Best to all!