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this is the day of the week i enjoy the most

JonesCarpeDiem
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Why?

Almost every Thursday (sometimes Friday's) I get to go jam with a drummer and a bass player for a few hours. We are working on polishing the songs to a consistency before adding a sax player and a keyboardist.

As we only work on original music, it is a continuous creative progress. (no one else has ever done the music, so we have no point of reference like we would if we were learning someone elses music) I video the rehearsals and edit the start and endings of each song, then convert them to MP3's and email them to them the next morning so we can each hear what we are doing and let our minds work during the coming week on improving what we did. this saves an incredible amount of rehearsal time and will allow us to add other musicians without starting over each time as they will have the videos to learn the music from.

 

Uncharted waters just like every day of your quit.

Your quit is fresh every day.

Enjoy it. Find the positives in it. Don't dread.

There's nothing negative about not smoking.

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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.