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On My Third Day: I Learned To Laugh Out Loud

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎09-21-2014 08:06 AM

The thought of smoking came and I laughed it off. I realized I had the urge to smoke and I'd caught it and did not need to act on it and it made me laugh.

From that day on, I laughed every time I got a craving. After a week, I was thinking of laughing, not smoking.

I just watched a story on laughter. They said that it doesn't matter how you start laughing, only that you do it.

Many of us forget to laugh due to all the stress and worry in our lives.

Laughing has numerous (documented) health benefits. It's good for your circulatory and immune systems as well as all systems in your body and your mind.

Example: People who had heart attacks and were encouraged to laugh during their recovery had an 8% chance of a second heart attack in the first year whereas those who didn't had a 42% chance.

Laughter releases endorphins.

People who laugh are automatically happier.

LAUGHTER IS THE BEST MEDICINE BOTH PREVENTATIVE AND CURATIVE.

Laughter is free, requires no tools and, you can do it anywhere. (chuckle in church)

http://teamcoco.com/video/sanjay-gupta-laughter

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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.