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Share your quitting journey

Thank you all for your care and concern

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎12-13-2016 04:30 PM

They cut and they burned so I won't know how I (really) feel until tomorrow.

He said my esophagus looks much better. If the biopsies coome back as gpod news, I can go in every 6 months instead of every 3 months. 🙂

My PICC line came out during the procedure but I didn't know it.   🙂

They put another in my foot when that happened and I was none the wiser (or dumber)

No solid food today. None of Dale's Potato Gruel until tomorrow.

Jello & maybe coffee in the morning?

UPDATED_____________________________________________________________________________

Pretty good today. No real pain. They did not do the 360 degree burn instead, they didf  argob plasma coagulations which is more targeted to certain spots and i'm sure that made a big difference.

The thing about recovery is you're hungry and feel like you could eat a horse but if I did, I'd tear areas open and be in the ER so I have to restrain myself.  🙂 Not Smoking Over 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.