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Weird Analogy? Doubt from a thought??

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎12-10-2016 07:02 AM

    I was brewing a pot of coffee this morning and I wasn't getting excited about it.

     I don't know. Maybe my smeller is off a bit.     

     Anyway, my mind started down path B.

     (The worst outcome projection)
     A doubt that I may have ordered too much.  🙂
     Doubt is what ruins quits. Fighting yourself is doubting yourself.

I wrote a few lines about the coffee thinking
and then a second set as to how it might relate to my quit.
     We are all susceptible to being led by a thought. (they grow)
    As long as that realization is in the forefront when a negative thought comes....We don't grow it, we move forward, and, let it settle in.

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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.