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That Was The Old, This Is The New

JonesCarpeDiem
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  That Was The Old, This Is The New
   
  It was a late January night
  The memories tricking me out of the light
  if I hadn’t learned nothing better from time 
  Those nicotine dreams could’ve made me go blind
   
  CHORUS
  Yeah that was the old
  And don’t it sound good?
  But you know it’s  death
  And now I am  new        repeat chorus
   
  The habit was our rabbit down the hole
  Our mind would click and we’d find a place to go
  But we don’t have to run out anymore
  We’ll stay inside, not be old Nico’s whores
   
  Yeah that was the old
  And don’t it sound good?
  But you know it’s  death   
  And now you are new          repeat chorus
   
  The air is so clean around me all day
  The sun is so bright I get to go play
  The strings of guitar, not nicotines game
  Cause that was the old, and I’m not the same
   
   
  Yeah that was the old
  And don’t it sound good?
  But you know it’s  death   
  Remain the new you          repeat chorus
   
  D jones
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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.