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Real or Rumor?

JonesCarpeDiem
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I had my overhead lights dimmed last night and it brought up a question I had considered answered.

All my life I had heard that a dimmer sucked up the power it kept from the light bulbs and  that power became heat. That meant power was not being saved but just held from the light bulbs themselves and thus, you were using just as much power as if you were not dimming the lights.

I looked it up last night and found out that was wrong. Power actually is saved not heat sinked and lost.

Here's another one:

Smoking is good. (We all thought it was didn't we? If not, why did we do it?)

Now, can you give me one good reason smoking is good?

If not, Stop lying to yourself. Stop listening to the bullshit we've been brainwashed with.

There is no evidence smoking is good but is mountains to the contrary.

This is your life. SMARTEN UP! Take it back!

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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.