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Life Isn't Waiting Around While You Have That Cigarette

JonesCarpeDiem
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You are just kidding yourself if you think it does.

Think of all the time you've wasted to get your fix.

The things you've let go right over your head because you had to have one.

Your childs home run, key mnutes you missed of the dance recital or school play.. the conversation you should have finished instead of walking away and smoking. irretrievabe, irrepaceable moments of life.

And, all the time you wasted thinking about that next cigarette.

We wasted so much life to be smokers.....

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About the Author
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.