Welcome to the quit & happy birthday! What a wonderful gift to yourself. Imagine the fresh air and deep breaths!
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I am a little over 10 hrs and feel like this patch is a piece of s$@Ć. My cravings are so bad. I donāt know how I am gonna make it through work today as I have a feeling everything will set me off. I have ways to cope from quitting drinking so I could possibly implement them with this. I want this journey and I want it to stick. Smoking since I was 10 and now 43 is gross to me. I want a better and healthier life
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Do whatever you can to make it through the day without smoking. You are allowed almost anything else other than giving in to the craving.
Alan Carrās The Easy Way to Stop Smoking helped me learn that everytime you smoke you are restarting your craving clock. This is also why it gets easier to resist cravings with time.
Weāre here for you. To quote a page from the prophet Curtis āsmoking bad, fresh air goodā.
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the first few days are the roughest. I had to stay away from pretty much everything. I went for long, steep hikes. I couldnāt stop and grab a pack if I was hiking. and it wore me out so I could sleep. Sleeping helped the time go by.
I quit because I wanted to breathe better, so I pushed myself on my hikes. I was out of breath as much as I could stand. It helped me focus on why Iām quitting.
Holding my breath was another good exercise to help me stay focused.
Hang onto your time. every time you cave in and buy a pack you start over. Its easy to postpone starting over and have another year fly by.
For me quitting smoking was way harder than quitting everything else. I did it and Im not going back! 
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I feel you!
I found that there were some brands of patches that either didnāt stick to me or made me feel physically awful. Once I found a brand that worked, quitting was easier.
If youāre still having physical cravings, see if your on too low of a nicotine mg. Also, look into wearing a patch and then use a lozenge or gum when cravings become too much. Make sure your doctor clears your heart for that though! They might be too much too. That could also make you feel shitty.
Itās tough. It really, REALLY sucks. The longest I went smoke-free was 3 years. I remember there was an entire year I didnāt even think about a cigarette! So, I promise it gets better. Until then, buckle upā¦ the insomnia, mood changes, and anxiety super sucks. Itās our brains healing.
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I am gonna cut down using the patch as I feel thatās the best way I cope with quitting anything. Thats how I quit drinking. I cut down and set a plan and when I should stop. I feel it will probably help me the same way.
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How hoes the quit @ceejayboi
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Well I cut down a bit with the patch and today I only have 2 cigarettes for the day. I will see how it goes lol. I know I will be able to do eventually. Right now its a bit of a struggle
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Progress man
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I had a conversation with my grandmother, a smoker for 40 years that quit 10 years ago, about cravings. She told me even after 10 years she still gets the urge to smoke and has triggers that make her want to buy a pack to relieve stress. To me this just means I have to stay on my A game, and to remain vigilant and not get complacent no matter how long it has been!
Thanks for all the support 
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Congrats.
I had quit smoking for fourteen years and a very stressful situation tricked me into having a cigarette instead of strangling someone. I was off and running. I bought a pack and smoked like a chimney for about 12 years.
I thought quitting should be easier after quitting for so long. It was harder.
90 days is huge!
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Thanks Jason! I definitely appreciate you sharing your experience. Glad to know itāll be harder next time, all the more reason not to go back to it! Iād rather not go through that struggle again!
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Congrats @Alexh666 90 days is amazoling. Keep breaking habits and rituals.
Thats kinda a bummer about cravings 10years on. I think it was harder to quit nicotine than booze. But its worth it
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Thanks, will do!
Yeah nicotine was a beast to quit, it was wrapped up in every action in my daily life, even more so than all the substances I had been using! Iām already seeing the positive benefits of quitting so that helps encourage me to keep at it
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My lung capacity is so much better now too! Glad to be on this journey with you Keyana!
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My Mom quit smoking 40 years ago. I asked her if sheād start smoking again, and she said it would be too easy for herāeven after 4 decades!
However, there is hope! Sheās lost both of her parents, an ex-spouse, many friends, a granddaughter, a son to death just to name a few. Sheās gone through raising 3 teenagers alone, had a divorce, moved several times, among other stressful life events and didnāt smoke once. I asked her: did you want a cigarette? Didnāt you think about it? And she said: not once.
So, if a woman who hasnāt wanted a cigarette through 40 years of major life situations can smoke after one hitā Iām reminded that sobriety is a āone day at a timeā thing regardless of how long itās been.
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I tried so many times to quit and failed. Not even I thought it would work this time. I would see the eye rolls and know we were thinking the same thing, āIāll believe it when I see itā. lol
That makes today even more special and powerful to me. Proving myself wrong.
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Yes, Queen! 
Congratulations 
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Wow she has dealt with so much heartbreak and struggle. Glad to hear she was able to stay away from nicotine despite all of that, that is inspirational!
Thank you for sharing! Give her a big hug for me when you see her again, will ya? 
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Congratulations! This is a huge accomplishment, Iām glad it feels so powerful to you! Glad to be on this journey with you
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