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For Those Interested: Mike n @lanta and I had a great time yesterday!

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎11-09-2014 06:31 AM

He got the tour of the beaches in Oceanside, met Hoggie, I even played him a song,. We had Chile Relleno's as "big as your hand" and it was just wonderful meeting him.

Thanks for making the effort to drive 3 hours each way brother Mike!

Here's a couple pictures to whet your appetite and a slideshow of the surfers taken while we were standing on the pier enjoying 82 degree weather.

It was sort of funny. He called me when he got to a rest stop North of town and I told him a place to meet me. Well he happened to drive past it and called me just as I was pulling in. I had come the back way and happened to go past the rear entrance of my cousins restaurant and asked him when it was open. He was unloading groceries told me 11. When Mike called me, he said he was parked right in front of the restaurant and he didn't even know that was my cousins place. LOL He must have been wearing his Chile Relleno Magnetometer.

http://s155.photobucket.com/user/jonescarp/slideshow/mike%20and%20dale%2011-8-14?sort=2

Thanks again Mike! It was a great time.

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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.