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Share your quitting journey

UPDATE~~~~man i'm glad i don't smoke anymore

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎05-31-2012 07:43 PM

they did the stress test this morning and from what they could tell there could be a 20% blockage of blood flow to the bottom of my heart.

the cardiologist just now showed up. so i had no news to report until i'd spoken with him.

they were going to do an angiogram tommorrow morning with a possible stent but he is concerned because if they do a stent, they are required to put me on blood thinners and that could make the lesions in my esophagus start bleeding again.

so, i'm going home tomorrow, i won't miss the big party, and hoggie will have his papa back.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR PRAYERS AND CONCERN.

dale

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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.