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Withdrawal … wow

tburton1004
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‎11-19-2021 06:32 PM

I stopped smoking November 10 but had a slip after six days. Got going again yesterday. The cravings are bad, but the withdrawal symptoms are even worse. It’s like when I had COVID last year, minus the fever! I’m feeling sorta silly, though — I didn’t realize that NRT was legit for this, I guess thinking that the point of stopping, or one of the big ones, anyway, was to break the nicotine addiction. I did some more reading today, in the throes of my misery, and learned that NRT is actually recommended! Well, live and learn. I’m going to try patches, and I am SO excited. My research helped me find this site, so I’m very happy about that. Sending good thoughts to you all!

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I am a recently retired artist, educator, filmmaker, and all-around slightly domesticated wild child who loves to howl at the moon. I am the daughter of two nicotine addicts, and my mom was also an alcoholic. She found AA and reclaimed her authentic seIf. She paid it forward and helped countless others find their way through. She had been a smoker since her high school days, as had my dad, and quit when my dad was diagnosed with very early stage lung cancer in 1993. They both quit on the spot, over 30 years ago, but my dear mom passed away from stage 4 lung cancer in May 2018. My dad was virtually crippled by COPD the last couple of years and he passed March 2023. I miss them both so much. Smoking killed both of them. I vowed all my life that I would never smoke, so go figure, for some idiot reason I started smoking in 2009. Now I’m free. I enjoy building tables out of reclaimed wood and love working in my shop. I have a massive model train project that has “this will take YEARS” written all over it! I love gardening, camping, reading, and drawing. I am married to the best of wives and best of women, over 15 years now. We’re looking forward to travels and adventures and just being together in this wonderful state of retirement!