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OK We've Talked About Quitting Here For 9 Years

JonesCarpeDiem
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But How Do You Like Your Baked Potato?

I like to bake it: 🙂

But then I like to mash it

and butter it, then, and only then, will I season it.

      Then, I put a big dollop of sour cream on top and I mix the sour cream and potato with my tongue to make sure the taste buds are hitting on all 12 cylinders and I'm getting exactly the taste I expected.

   Then, I'm too full to eat those Brussel sprouts.

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Bet I made everyone want a baked potato.   🙂

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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.