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What can you learn by going back to blogs you've commented on?

JonesCarpeDiem
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I realize most of us just don't have the time to get really involved and might only have time to leave a comment on a blog, but, if you do have extra time you can often learn by going back and reading the responses after yours and any comment from the author  if they left one.

What do you expect to learn from your own comment?.

What can you learn about "the place" someone is in with their quit who's first post on the site was a comment after yours?

What do you learn about how the author took the comments so you can relate to them in their next blog?

I believe you can can click on the RSS feed link on the left of the blog and you will get an email notification when someone responds on the blog. Yes, the number of emails would definitely become overbearing for me.

Perhaps you could bookmark blogs of particular interest in your browser and then delete them after a few days? (You can make a folder for eX within your browser)

But perhaps on going back on a particular blog and seeing a first timer's comment, you could go to their page and try to give them some help or encouragement directly?

I realize it's work but quitting smoking is work and helping someone quit smoking is a work too.  🙂

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About the Author
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.