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JonesCarpeDiem
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‎01-26-2014 01:55 PM

I was up early and online, having my first cup of coffee when it went down the wrong way and i couldn't catch my breath. It wasn't helping to sit at my chair so I stood up and leaned against the door to catch my breath. when I thought i was capable i tried to sit back down.

I wasn't 100% and was still coughing and my chair spun away from me. I went down and landed hard on one of the metal legs just outside my left breast area.

I can breathe but i think I cracked or bruised a rib. I don't think there is anything they could do for it.

Hoggie doesn't understand why I can't take him outside this morning.

It hurts to cough so I'm glad I don't need a nicotine fix anymore.

I have a Dr. appointment for lab work in the morning.

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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.