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Luck....we haven't heard that word bandied about too much lately

JonesCarpeDiem
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Let's talk about real luck...not this make believe luck I hear about quitting smoking.

I have been having a heck of a time with my health group. They don't seem to communicate with each other.

heck, you'd think when you left the specialists office your group would be notified what tests or procedures had been ordered. But...Nooooooooooo. you'd think there were no computers, no internet when 11 days later , the day before your ultrasound appointment you find out your request has only just been sent in for approval that very day and your untrasound has been cancelled.

So I had regular lab place fall through but  was told to go to a special place when i wanted. So i chose today in my head. This was about last thursday

So i'm stumbiling around the internet last saturday and I find this lab place. I'm perusing and i see there is a place to make appointments. so i go there and lo and behold, there is only one open appointment in the next two weeks and it is at 9:45 today. I clicked the button

that was the real lucky moment. had i known, i would have acted like I won the lottery.

I went in there this morning. every chair (15) in the place was taken, people were still coming in the door and it was 5 minutes until my appointment.

Darn if they didn't let me do what they have you do in the cup right at the stroke of 9:45.

and 5 minutes later, took four vials of blood.

am I a lucky guy or what?

had i not clicked saturday i would have been there two more hours.

WOO HOO!!!

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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.