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Yesterday's note from Nancy

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  We went to Jungfraujoch - and there was one of two REALLY cool trains.  They have a grooved center rail and (I guess) a wheel or wheels that engage as you run.  There is an observation structure at the top - the rail was created for a physics center located on this mountain.  It snowed there overnight and was pretty cold.  They have several outdoor platforms you can get to.......The train goes through a pretty long tunnel through the mountain to get there - and you have to walk through one to get to the observation point.  The altitude didn't bother me much - but claustrophobia got me in the one tunnel we had to walk.  We were at the highest point in Europe up there - above a lot of the mountain range - and above the clouds, too.  It was breathtaking!!!  
   
  Today's adventure completed, we are back in the condo and we can actually see where we were from our balcony.  Waaaaaay cool!
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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.