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60 cents?

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎08-09-2012 09:12 AM

Just saw a story on the local news about all the people rushing out to buy gas because it's 4 cents more a gallon than it was yesterday.

Gee, if you have a 15 gallon tank that is a savings of 60 cents. Let's say you have to fill up twice a week.

That would be an extra $4.80 a month

Will you also drive 5 miles out of your way to save that 60 cents?

What are we going to do when it's up a quarter more gallon than it is today? not go to work?

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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.