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What Have You Missed For Your Fix?

JonesCarpeDiem
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We all associated smoking with comfort.

Whether it really provided comfort really doesn't matter.

What we believe is what is.

If we gave it that power in our minds, it was real for us.

We now know that the nicotine causes a dopamine release and that is the comfort.

Now, consider a pack a day to keep you comfortable.

That translates to over one per hour.

Each one making you uncomfortable for the next.

The next "fix".

So, the question is, do we want our waking lives to be controlled by nicotine?

This is what put you outside when the pastor began his message, outside after your child was born,

outside while the bill at the restaurant was being prepared  and your family sat there without you.

Around the car when your boy hit that home run, somewhere else when your child almost drown.

Where were you?

What have you missed for your '' fix"?

Welcome to reality

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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.