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12-21-2017, 02:14 PM

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Dee74

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HI Kinko - many of us shook for a few weeks or even months after quitting. It can come and go, be worse in the morning etc...permanent shaking like Forwards suggested is rare.

Shaking by itself tho is not necessarily an indication of drinking.

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