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Share your quitting journey

It's kind of annoying....and to think, I used to do it. :-)

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎03-07-2015 08:49 PM

I really don't like second hand smoke in public places when it's unavoidable. Wafting on the breeze is fine but not steady in my face for 15 minutes and up.

I wanted to play and sing today so my buddy Steve and I grabbed our guitars and his dog and headed to the beach. We found a good place to park on the strand and got set up. Unfortunately, right behind Steve was a chain smoker patching and painting a wall. He drops the end of a lit one over the wall to let it go out and it was slipstreaming right towards my face then, he immediately lights up another one.

After about 3 songs I said to Steve, "I can't stand singing in this cigarette smoke."

Well actually, I would prefer not to and I used to sing in clubs that seated 400 and up. They all smoked but, now that I don't have to, I would prefer to forego the smoke in the face.

Anyway, we drove around and finally found a beautiful spot overlooking the lagoon. Set up and had a great session.

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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.