My good cave

[Erussell]

WT the Farmboy is 1,000!

Great journey. Many conversations, many PM's and many days quit with you. Congrats!

Glad to see you still quit and still in the game!

A great milestone for a great quitter and example for others! Congratulations and thank you for all that you do!

Congrats on the comma WT. Quit with you each and every day.
Old ES

'worship' 'worship' 'worship'

Nice job WT57. Glad you stick around here. When I first quit you were definitely one guy whose words I clung to.

Proud of You! Congratulations on Your Comma! Who woulda thunk? Great job!

comma looks good on you!

Congrats on the comma WT! Your experiences and stories have strenthened my quit. Thank you Brother.

Well done, sir. A champion of quit

Very impressive!!! Quit with your Bad Ass.

[Diesel2112]

WT the Farmboy is 1,000!

Great journey. Many conversations, many PM's and many days quit with you. Congrats!

Glad to see you still quit and still in the game!

A great milestone for a great quitter and example for others! Congratulations and thank you for all that you do!

Congrats on the comma WT. Quit with you each and every day.
Old ES

'worship' 'worship' 'worship'

Nice job WT57. Glad you stick around here. When I first quit you were definitely one guy whose words I clung to.

Proud of You! Congratulations on Your Comma! Who woulda thunk? Great job!

comma looks good on you!

Congrats on the comma WT! Your experiences and stories have strenthened my quit. Thank you Brother.

Well done, sir. A champion of quit

[rdad]

WT the Farmboy is 1,000!

Great journey. Many conversations, many PM's and many days quit with you. Congrats!

Glad to see you still quit and still in the game!

A great milestone for a great quitter and example for others! Congratulations and thank you for all that you do!

Congrats on the comma WT. Quit with you each and every day.
Old ES

'worship' 'worship' 'worship'

Nice job WT57. Glad you stick around here. When I first quit you were definitely one guy whose words I clung to.

Proud of You! Congratulations on Your Comma! Who woulda thunk? Great job!

comma looks good on you!

Congrats on the comma WT! Your experiences and stories have strenthened my quit. Thank you Brother.

[mich 34]

WT the Farmboy is 1,000!

Great journey. Many conversations, many PM's and many days quit with you. Congrats!

Glad to see you still quit and still in the game!

A great milestone for a great quitter and example for others! Congratulations and thank you for all that you do!

Congrats on the comma WT. Quit with you each and every day.
Old ES

'worship' 'worship' 'worship'

Nice job WT57. Glad you stick around here. When I first quit you were definitely one guy whose words I clung to.

Proud of You! Congratulations on Your Comma! Who woulda thunk? Great job!

comma looks good on you!

[30isEnuff]

WT the Farmboy is 1,000!

Great journey. Many conversations, many PM's and many days quit with you. Congrats!

Glad to see you still quit and still in the game!

A great milestone for a great quitter and example for others! Congratulations and thank you for all that you do!

Congrats on the comma WT. Quit with you each and every day.
Old ES

'worship' 'worship' 'worship'

Nice job WT57. Glad you stick around here. When I first quit you were definitely one guy whose words I clung to.

Proud of You! Congratulations on Your Comma! Who woulda thunk? Great job!

[Its_Got2Happen]

WT the Farmboy is 1,000!

Great journey. Many conversations, many PM's and many days quit with you. Congrats!

Glad to see you still quit and still in the game!

A great milestone for a great quitter and example for others! Congratulations and thank you for all that you do!

Congrats on the comma WT. Quit with you each and every day.
Old ES

'worship' 'worship' 'worship'

Nice job WT57. Glad you stick around here. When I first quit you were definitely one guy whose words I clung to.

[Enough snuff]

WT the Farmboy is 1,000!

Great journey. Many conversations, many PM's and many days quit with you. Congrats!

Glad to see you still quit and still in the game!

A great milestone for a great quitter and example for others! Congratulations and thank you for all that you do!

Congrats on the comma WT. Quit with you each and every day.
Old ES

[worktowin]

WT the Farmboy is 1,000!

Great journey. Many conversations, many PM's and many days quit with you. Congrats!

Glad to see you still quit and still in the game!

A great milestone for a great quitter and example for others! Congratulations and thank you for all that you do!

[Mthomas3824]

WT the Farmboy is 1,000!

Great journey. Many conversations, many PM's and many days quit with you. Congrats!

Glad to see you still quit and still in the game!

[Wt57]

Posted the same in Diesel's intro...

WT57 - Note of appreciation for continuing to be involved and actively posting to the anxiety  depression improvement page. I had no idea how many quitters had issues post quit until I experienced it myself and found this thread. Both you and Diesel have been the leaders giving the rest of us hope that we will get better.

Keep it up bro, you're making lives better!

I wholeheartedly agree with Done. I do not suffer from anxiety or depression but I feel for you that are dealing with these on top of quitting nicotine. That is difficult enough by itself. Those of you that conquer both are champs in my book. WT and Diesel are tremendous assets for us all. To heal from all our ailments is the endgame of freeing ourselves from the clutches of nicotine.

I truly appreciate the kind words. I'm nothing special nor is my quit but I'm glad my experiences might help others. It just so happens that your thoughts come to me as I'm struggling a little and upon the heals of a vicious dip dream last night. Yesterday was a bitch but I used my tools to quit (I reached out to a quit friend for support). I truly love the brotherhood of this place, even though it reminds me of my dysfunctional family that I'm with this weekend.

[rdad]

Posted the same in Diesel's intro...

WT57 - Note of appreciation for continuing to be involved and actively posting to the anxiety  depression improvement page. I had no idea how many quitters had issues post quit until I experienced it myself and found this thread. Both you and Diesel have been the leaders giving the rest of us hope that we will get better.

Keep it up bro, you're making lives better!

I wholeheartedly agree with Done. I do not suffer from anxiety or depression but I feel for you that are dealing with these on top of quitting nicotine. That is difficult enough by itself. Those of you that conquer both are champs in my book. WT and Diesel are tremendous assets for us all. To heal from all our ailments is the endgame of freeing ourselves from the clutches of nicotine.

[Done4Me]

Posted the same in Diesel's intro...

WT57 - Note of appreciation for continuing to be involved and actively posting to the anxiety  depression improvement page. I had no idea how many quitters had issues post quit until I experienced it myself and found this thread. Both you and Diesel have been the leaders giving the rest of us hope that we will get better.

Keep it up bro, you're making lives better!

[CleanFuel]

Error in thinking; in the early 80's as an addict that had been nicotine free for nearly 3 years I distinctly remember the self justification that brought me back into slavery. Life happened, and with it came daily stress, oh yea an occasional dip would help. I know I can quit anytime, already proved it. I repeated the same error several more times over the next 3 decades.

Lesson learned; that one (or occasion) dip doesn't work. It is a total lie that leads to slavery. Life always throws us curves and its natural to look for shortcuts to overcome and deal with it. Dip isn't a means of dealing with stress, it only adds another problem to life. Face life's challenges head on, accept responsibility and make wise well thought out decisions.

#truth

[Wt57]

Error in thinking; in the early 80's as an addict that had been nicotine free for nearly 3 years I distinctly remember the self justification that brought me back into slavery. Life happened, and with it came daily stress, oh yea an occasional dip would help. I know I can quit anytime, already proved it. I repeated the same error several more times over the next 3 decades.

Lesson learned; that one (or occasion) dip doesn't work. It is a total lie that leads to slavery. Life always throws us curves and its natural to look for shortcuts to overcome and deal with it. Dip isn't a means of dealing with stress, it only adds another problem to life. Face life's challenges head on, accept responsibility and make wise well thought out decisions.

[Wt57]

WT - Meeting last night was what we talked about. Quit and recovery requires forgiveness. We have to forgive others and ourselves. I think addicts are too angry about what they can't control or things that are not worth raising blood pressure over. I was advised that even if it is insincere at first, to pray for people I felt wronged me or that I harbor angry feelings toward. I'm going to put it to the test this week.

They got me at this quote: "Harboring feelings toward someone else is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die." Quit with you and working on recovering by understanding how to let go and move forward.

First time that I got on my knees and asked for help and prayed for specific people that I felt wronged me. It felt awkward but funny thing, it wasn't too bad to do it.

Matthew 18:21-35 (I think I understand more today)

Thanks Mark that is so timely for me. Our group was on step 8 last week and I also need to do some forgiving before I can move forward and expect those I've harmed to forgive me. I changed my poison but am still poisoning myself hoping they will die. It was prayer that brought me to this forum and it will be through prayer that I will overcome those things that are slowing my recovery. Your comments have energized my desire to move forward from my stagnating recovery.