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Youngatheart Nancy-The Challenge And The Reward

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎06-18-2014 06:21 PM

Get Healthy By Oct 8 So We Can Go See The Grand Canyon Together (no we won't be kicking up our heels on the edge of the canyon)

And spend a week exploring Sedona, Oak Creek Canyon and everything else near Flagstaff.

I think Hoggie's going too.

I really wanted to set a goal with a special reward to look forward to after all she's been through.

She hasn't done much travelling because she was a single mom raising her two girls without any financial help..

I've wanted to go spend some time in Flagstaff ever since I dropped down out of it into the desert below pulling a trailer of my first wife's belongings from Kansas to California when I got off the road .40+ years ago.

Flagstaff sits 7000 feet above sea level.

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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.