Dear Nick,
Thanks a lot for taking your time to read and respond my message, and congratulations for reaching one month. I am pretty sure I will keep your valuable advices very well in my mind if I happen to have urges or triggers.
You are right, I use to keep an eye on what I eat and do lots of sports but the past years I didn’t do well with that. There is clearly a relationships between taking care of my self (eating well/healthy, doing sport, no smoking) and gambling that takes all my time and energy. I decided myself that I will try to decrease the amount of cigarettes per day I smoke, start doing sport more often and keep an eye on what I eat. I am very tired every day, even after leaving the world of gambling. But I try to remind myself that I have done an important step: getting away from gambling after too many years. The next step is focus on my own body and take care of myself.
I also thought just to leave the house and go for a walk when I feel triggering coming up. Also writing a post here and that’s why I wrote something short in my last post; I felt the urge to write something here.
As for the chat, I guess it will be very difficult because I am here in Northern Europe and the time difference is very big between your location and mine; but thanks for the offer.
And by the way, today is day 17 and I a proud of it.