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The Freeway Or The Dark Two Lane Winding Road

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎01-18-2013 02:24 PM

When I went for my sleep study, I decided I would take surface streets instead of the freeway.
BIG MISTAKE.
Two lane unlighted winding road for most of the 20 miles.

15 minutes before I was due at the hospital and I did not know where I was.  I was lost.
I was at the mercy of my printed Google map and in the dark.  I wished I had taken the freeway and i was concerned that the anxiety i felt building might delay my ability to participate in the sleep study.

People, this place is your freeway.  Going it alone is the unlit country road.

Guess who took the freeway home in the morning?

Save yourself a lot of fear and aggravation. Take the freeway.  

Stay Here. Learn What You Need To Know.

Too Many Have Tried It On Their Own And Lost Their Way

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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.