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Little things don't have to blow your quit if you don't blow them up

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎10-25-2015 10:10 AM

I made cheese enchiladas a few days ago and as they are rich, I wanted something to have with them to break up the richness.

I have a recipe for black beans (they don't give you gas) and decided to make them. I looked in my freezer and lo and behold, I found a jar frozen. I thawed them out Friday afternoon and when I went to heat them up yesterday morning I realized they weren't black beans but another bean recipe.

Now imagine if I let that inconsequential bump grow into a problem?

This is what people do with their quits. They hit a few little bumps in the road, grow them into mountains, and blow their quit thinking smoking is going to resolve them.

Excuses are just that. No beans about it!

Stop beaning around the bush! Accept the little unexpected diversions and keep moving forward.

The only way out is through!

 

PS

Here's the black bean recipe.

https://excommunity.becomeanex.org/blogs/jonescarp.aka.dale.Jan_2007-blog/2011/03/26/beans-you-sayok...

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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.