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Pictures - Usually I google a word and choose images to find the pics I use (revised 3-25-13)

JonesCarpeDiem
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Here’s how I post a picture or graphic

you need a free photobucket account (Flickr or Picassa Web May work also)
then, you need to upload your pictures from your pc that you want to use in order to obtain link codes which are the whole secret to this

If you want to get a picture from google or some other site, you need to download it by right clicking and then choosing save while you are hovered over it.

That downloads it to your desktop or temp files folder or your downloads folder.
then you upload it to photo bucket same as before (photobucket just changed-REVISION)
you then hover over the top edge of the picture in photobucket and there will be a dropdown list

after it is uploaded you go to the folder you put it in in photobucket and click on the picture and on the right down about mid page you will see 4 choices. you click on the choice you want on the left and on the right you will see copied show up where the code was for an instant. this means it's been copied to the clipboard/memory of your computer.
(direct link for layout pages is the one you use for blogs]

then you open the little icon on the right above the text area of your blog on the ex page and paste it into the top open white space by right clicking and choosing paste.

then you size it so it doesn't take up the whole page where it says height and width. put your mouse in the top one of those two and it will show you the original size of the photo example 1024 x768.
you type the size you want in the upper of the two boxes say 400 and that will adjust the bottom number automatically,

then you choose save. Voila you see your picture in the message box
if it isn't the right size choose edit and hit the backspace button to erase that attempt. recopy the link from photobucket to the photo icon and try the sizing again.
then you add any text you want and choose publish.

If you want to put pictures on someone’s message board you choose the link code that  starts with <a and ends with a>

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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.