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quitting smoking: replacement stimulant

Hello. Any GTD smoking quitters out there? I'm quitting, and, well, I'm used to the constant stimulant. Of course, I'm still drinking coffee (and the constant imbibing of stimulants is bad for you and I exercise and that helps your energy more in the long run etc etc). Is coffee the only replacement stimulant for the cigarettes? It's really cutting into my productivity, and it will be very hard to maintain quitting if I'm at a permanently lower tier of work effort & focus.

thanks!

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Congrats on the decision to...

Congrats on the decision to quit. I have never taken up the [bad] habit as the son of two smoking parents. I lost my father to lung cancer because of it almost 6 years ago, and yet we (me, my wife, and my sister) cannot get our mother to quit.

Please fight through the urges and drop this like the bad habit that it is.

Michael

 
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