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little dizzy most of the time

JonesCarpeDiem
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it makes me want to drive only when necessary.

i have a friend who i started playing music with about 46 years ago when i first learned to play guitar.

he dropped by yesterday and called from outside to see if i wanted to go for a ride.

he had repaired a guitar for someone about 35 miles away and wanted to return it and get his which he had loaned to her.

so it was a gorgeous day and a great trip. after we dropped off the guitar we stopped at the biggest music store in san diego county and played a bunch of guitars.

the freeway is being worked on and traffic was slow coming the return direction so we decided to take the old road back.

i haven't been that far east in nearly 50 years so it was fun to see how much everything had changed.

i mentioned i was really craving a chile relleno and we found a mexican restaurant in one of the smaller towns on the way home. i left my diet in the car. figured i blew about 4500 calories on that meal. lol.

later, after i was home awhile i went through my diet plan and added up what i had in the meal and with all the walking around i was still under my daily calorie count. UNBELIEVABLE

WOO HOO!!

I'm feeling slightly better each day considering my body still needs to make up for half the blood loss.

ps (a neat aside) my friend fixes peoples guitars for free. it's his way of giving back for 50 years of pleasure that playing music has given him.

have a good day.

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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.