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What's The Funniest Or Most Disgusting Thing You Had To Do To Get Your Fix?

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎10-17-2010 03:59 PM

A few years before I quit I had just gotten off a real emotional phone call with a client

I was so angry I went out on the front porch to have a smoke

The wind blew the door shut and I was locked out No keys no money no cell no shirt and no shoes.& NO CIGS

I managed to get the drivers door of my truck open with a couple roofing stapes from the back I had bent straight.

so I thought, my wife and daughter were somplace local and I put a screwdriver in the ignition and started driving.

I really wanted a smoke by now so I started fishing through the ashtray and found about 6 butts

that still had a few puffs on them.

Well, whats a smoker to do in a situation like this?  Yeah, it was  bad. Nasty.

I drove around a couple hours and finally I went home, took the glass slats out of a wiindow and threw my body inside.

Of course the family showed up 5 minutes after I got in.

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Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.