Count Your Blessings

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I lost my mom in 1999. I still have my dad. I see him often. Had I not moved back to Oceanside in 2011, I would not have this much time with him. He is now 90. He had cancer when he was 28?. No recurrence. He was a carpenter. He plays the harmonica by ear and well. I learned much from him both in character and skills..

He is still as active as a 40 year old. Sometimes he overestimates his own strength. 🙂 He still takes hot meals to shut ins every Monday. He goes to church every Sunday and has always been an honorable, even tempered man because of that relationship. Always walked the talk.

He is a calming influence in many lives. Yes, he gets frustrated as we all do. We're human.

I'm glad he was never a serious smoker. He liked to smoke a pipe but gave that up as we came of influential age so he didn't give us an excuse to smoke.

Never judgemental. He is one of the biggest blessings in my life.

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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.

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