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TEST~ Somewhere, deep in the code of this site hides a timeout threshold~TEST

JonesCarpeDiem
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why can't we band together and help find what it is?

Would you all try something for me sometime in the next week?

you can google online timer and have a window open with that, tabs of other open windows but sometime, open THIS BLOG. You can come click on my blogs and look for the "TEST" in the title.

set your timer for 15 minutes, open this page and start the timer.

When the timer goes off after 15 minutes post the word TEST as a response in this blog. If it posts, set the timer for 20 minutes and try again. If we do this in 5 minute increments until it won't post, maybe we can at least pin the trip time it blocks our posting and save ourselves alot of frustration.

UPDATE: We are at 30 minute for when Giulia couldn't post. Elvan has also hit 30. Anyone willing to go past that?

UPDATE: I have been blocked at 40 minutes 3 out of 4 times.

If it doesn't post at 15 minutes set it for 10 minutes and work backwards.

We will also learn if it affects everyone or just a few if we participate.

PS you can still go to other sites while you are waiting for the timer to go off, just leave this page open while you're doing it.

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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.