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I hate to admit it but I loved smoking in the rain

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎12-02-2014 12:20 PM

I used to go out and stand under two trees that hid the trash bins about 15 feet over from the front door.

there was something cool about standing in the rain barefoot in shorts and a t-shirt smoking but not getting wet. The trees broke the rainfall and I might only get a few drops of rain on my head and shoulders as I hurriedly smoked my cigarette.

that was almost 8 years and 2 residences ago.but I had my very last cigarette under those trees

So

I got out the crock pot last night and threw a small frozen roast, a cut up onion, a pound of baby carrots and 4 cut up  potatoes, plus two 4oz cans of mushrooms and left it on high overnight.

It has become my smoking substitute for rainy days.

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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.