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"Special Problems"

JonesCarpeDiem
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I'm pigeon toed. I just knew it affected my smoking and would keep me from quitting. (somehow?)

For sure being a closet smoker makes it 1000 times harder. (some way?)

Oh, and I smoked menthol cigarettes for 40 years too don't chu know!

Anybody with a white car too. big problems there.

So many of us with  "special problems" and reasons we've failed again and again.

I don't know how I've stayed quit 7 and a half years. (actually I do. I stopped lying to myself)

Now, I'm wondering if the white truck I've had since last October will take me back to smoking? :j

Can you see what you've done?

Stop saying "I have reasons I can't" and begin saying "I Can!"

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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.