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Life Is Ebb and Flow~Smoking Is Not Required

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎12-20-2016 07:04 AM

Let's focus on the head of a pin for a second

Okay. Pull it back now

What is satisfying about the holidays?

What are the distractions that make it disjointed or break it up.

          >>>>>Smoking is not that distraction anymore.<<<<<

     I used to make it home for Christmas Eve no matter where I was traveling. If it meant a 5 hour flight each way for 10 hours on the ground with my family, I made the effort. Most of my parents families and my mom are gone now. It brings my own mortality to mind.

     We need to make the importance of this time what we find it to be and not be hindered by past thinking.

     You are becoming new and, it began between your ears.

     Onward and Upward.

 

    

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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.