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tommorrow is the 50th reunion trip

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎04-13-2012 09:21 PM

i started smoking after i joined the Young Americans. stress and peer pressure.

there were about 5-10 people competing for every spot in each upcoming show.

we would rehearse long days and nights and you wouldn't know if you would get chosen or not, very competetive. I would ride over a hundred miles each way to go to rehearsals 3 or more times a week while i was going to high school full time.

there was a smokers porch. well the stars of the movie were certainly in for the E ticket ride and they all smoked. they took me in and that's how it started for me. 40 years of smoking, NONSTOP

 

anyway, i will be gone all day tomorrow.

i am scheduled  to sing one of my songs for everyone at tomorrow nights get together.

speakin of a jury of your peers...LOL

this is the song i'm doing...Laughing Out Loud

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F40kp4ETA0A

you all have fun tomorrow... i will.

i'll look to see how many are still smokers and report back.

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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.