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the (last) night visitor

JonesCarpeDiem
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I heard some extremely loud crunching on the other side of the room at 3am.

I knew it wasn't "the hog" because he chews with his mouth closed.

so, i turned on the light and i saw a body hunched over the cat food but it was not hoggie.

i was clapping my hands trying to get it to go outside and it went the opposite direction and

dissappeared into the bathroom.

i walked towards the bathroom talking gently so as not to frighten it.

i peered inside.

it wasn't in the shower, the cabinet doors were closed and then i saw it, staring sheepishly

at me from behind the toilet. i walked toward it giving it full berth on the side it was hiding on.

i spoke gently and it scurried past me and out the sliding glass door in the next room.

what was 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.