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Now I Have To Unlearn Another Habit!

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎01-14-2011 07:41 PM

My truck ignition could do no more than spin freely when I tried to start it

"Poop" I say. "I'm not going to smoke over it!

About 10 years back it became so stiff it was breaking keys so I started using a screwdriver.

Well I had the cylinder replaced today and guess what?  It uses keys.

so the first thing I reach for to turn it off? yes the screwdriver

then I realize the key is in the igition.

It's like driving a new truck.

Now I have to get the screwdriver out of the cab and relearn how to key an ignition not scr*w it.

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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.