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Share your quitting journey

so. what's it worth to you? (this almost looks like a peggy blog) lol

JonesCarpeDiem
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i was cooking for my daughter sunday.

well, i started the pilaf and came back to my laptop

(guess where i was online?)

i forgot about the pilaf and about 20 minutes later i smelled something burning.

i live way in the back of a house and the stove is about 50 feet away.

i was choking on dense black smoke all the way to the stove. i turned off the fire and grabbed

the pan and ran outside, set it on the concrete and put some water in it.

it took a couple hours to get the smoke out of the house and i used alot of air freshener but this story is

about the pan and your quit.

the pan sat outside for two days in its same position,

i brought it in the third day and yes, it was really bad.

i did a trial run with an sos pad and barely touched the burn. but i did see a glimmer.

i told someone about it and they said toss it.

today i spent 5 minutes and another sos pad on it. got 80 percent of the burn out.

more glimmer

i can see the end in sight.

next time more glimmer and another sos pad

don't give up on your quit.

yeah it takes some work but you can't afford to throw it and your life away.

love you all

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About the Author
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.