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Blame It On Something....

JonesCarpeDiem
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Once upon a time,

when I was a kid I was at my grandmothers and while the adults were in the house I found a gallon of red

paint and painted the white fence red.

Well they were more than shocked when they confronted me and I said "you know you shouldn't have left

that red paint where I could find it."

 

When we're backed into a corner we don't want to admit what we did was our choice.

Nothing can make you pick up a cigarette and smoke again except you!

 

PS

I was also known to oil the couch when it was squeaking.

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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.