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Feb 27 07 4:38 PM
Hello canav and welcome to freedom - YOUR Freedom from active addiction to nicotine.
We are all addicted to a chemical - nicotine. It's important to look at this process as recovery from chemical dependency and not simply 'quitting smoking'. Why? Because things that happen when we quit using nicotine like sadness, anger, depression, elation are all part of the process of healing psychologically and emotionally. Really take the time to dig in and find out what nicotine has done to your brain's reward circuits. Whether we have been nicotine users for two years or twenty or thirty or forty years the thing that remains the same for us all is that our brains have rewired themselves to be ultra receptive to nicotine. One puff and the whole need cycle fires back up full force and then we have the same two choices we have always had - ingest more nicotine to further delay chemical withdrawal or deny nicotine entry to our blood and brain. Both of those are tough choices. In not too long a time if you keep your promise to NTAP keeping clean of nicotine will be the easiest way to go through life. I guarantee.
Be prepared - your weekend strategy
Being tempted watching others smoke
Being honest about our addiction
Emotional loss experienced when quitting
Expectations, start with baby steps
Getting vigilant and staying vigilant with the concept of addiction
Read to learn, read to understand, read to live and be free as we are meant to be by NTAP!
This process does not have to be hard. Read the psot Ione has linked to you to learn a little more about the pwerful effect we can employ by creating a 'can do' mindset.
Welcome to the group. Do the work, it will pay off big time in a life of freedom from nicotine because it will your choice to say - no thanks, I really don't need or want any nicotine today.
Replacing the word "cigarette" with "nicotine
JoeJ Free - Recovered Me Two Years, One Month, Sixteen Days, 21 Hours and 22 Minutes ago. I've now reclaimed 67 Days and 12 Hours of my life's time
, by choosing to not use of 19447 death delivery devices and accumulated $4,016.49 in the 'freedom dividend' account.
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