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Menno D Retrain Our Brains, Nov 2018
I smoked sickarettes and joints daily for 35 years, 30 to 50 times a day. Early in my quit an Elder told me it would take me 1 year for every 10 years I smoked to be really comfortable with not smoking. That estimation seemed and still seems reasonable to me. I trained my brain to accommodate a large amount of nicotine all the time.
It takes a lot of time to retrain our brains, to have ourselves produce a natural amount of dopamine and serotonin and feel ‘normal’ after quitting.
Please have some patience after quitting to feel ‘normal’ again. Us addicts are not exactly known for our patience. That’s why we are addicts, we are looking for that instant fix, that instant gratification. Learning how to do without that is not easy. It takes some serious work.
We are doing it here though. I am. One day at a time. Good times and bad ones. Rain or shine. Autumn or spring. I got this because you got me. It is not always easy but it is always simple. NOPE it is. NOPE it stays. Love form Amsterdam in autumn.