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What A Relief! :-)

JonesCarpeDiem
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      My dad took his car in this morning to get the airbag recall done. They ran errands with the other car and when they got home about noon, he said, "You may have to take me to get my car later." This was about 5 hours ago.

      The dealership is a long ways away and traffic is horrible that time of day and there's no easy back roads because everyone is already on them. Stoplights can take 3 or 4 times to get through and the freeway is stop and go.

      And, you know how those car guys never get things done until quitting time?

      So in the last few hours I've gone from "I wonder when they're going to call" to "I wish he'd just leave it there until tomorrow."

      Time was getting close to go pick up the car and within a few minutes, I had cleared all the angst away and put myself in a place where I was willingly and happily ready to do it.

      And then, he tells me they called and he's leaving it there until tomorrow.  🙂

      I tell you this because these are the kind of moods we put ourselves into and we have the ability to pull ourselves out of it, You Do. I Do, We Do... Get inside your own head and put yourself in a better place. It's yours to do.

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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.