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a funny thing happened on the way to my coffee

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎01-14-2017 07:06 AM

I cannot have anything but water until I've taken a double dose of acid supressant and waited 30 minutes.

I took my pill and slugged it down with my water bottle and eagerly anticipated my coffee.

When it was time to go get my coffee, I spied the nearly empty bottle and decided to finish off the last of the water and put the bottle in recycling.

As I looked at the remaining water before I drank it, I noticed my pill was floating in it.

Was I disappointed I would have to wait another thirty minutes for my coffee? Yes.

Do I turn it into a big deal and let it raise my blood pressure or make me yell at Hoggie? No.

Sometimes you just have to laugh at yourself and  ACCEPT.

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Accept quitting and it will go much smoother. The little things that don't go the way we want are insignificant.

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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.