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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AndBreathe" data-source="post: 1066955" data-attributes="member: 88961">If things are all a bit much, then focus on one thing at a time, with getting your bloods back into the great range you have achieved being the main one, for today.Giving up smoking is very hard, from all I hear, so maybe you have to try giving up half for, say, a month, then cut down more, then cut down more.  Going from 40 a day to none is a huge step, and could be a shock to your body.  When you ate whatever you did, were you actually feeling hungry, or did you just need to do something with your hands that went into your mouth?Many moons ago, a heavy smoking friend of mine gave up, using the NHS support (Quite Line, I think?), patches and many, many, many cherry tomatoes.  She used to keep them where she would have had her cigarettes, and if she felt the need, she'd pop one or two cherry tomatoes, rather than a cigarette, to distract herself.Sadly, my Mother died from a disease wholly attributable to smoking, so I am very keen for others to give up, but like all changes the timing and tactics have to be right.Don't beat yourself up too much Ally.  It solves nothing.  Try to get back on that horse Ally.</blockquote>

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