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Share your quitting journey

I understand the effort. :-) Thank you to all the cooks!

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎11-23-2017 01:44 PM

      Trust me when I say I appreciate all the work that goes into making Thanksgiving dinner and I appreciate all the love that goes into it.

      I love to cook. Always have.  I cooked from 3am and finished the gravy at 8:30 this morning.   I cleaned up while things were cooking in the oven or microwave.

      I only have one circuit so I can only do one heating process at a time or it blows the circuit breaker.  🙂

      I made my dressing with apples and sausage. I cooked the sausage down and drained all the grease off a couple mornings ago so I wouldn't have to deal with that mess today and, I could cook it to perfection instead of being in a hurry.

      I made Yams. I nuke them with the skins on and then scrape out all the meat from the skin easily.  I cut in 1/2 stick of unsalted butter and some nutmeg then baked them. I've finally figured out it was nutmeg I was looking for and not cinnamon. (we are creatures of our memories)   No sugar added but mini marshmallows on top.

      Green beans with bacon fat. Mashed potatoes (I leave the skins on) & gravy, and of course, cranberry sauce.

It didn't take me 5 1/2 hours to eat.  🙂 but I have leftovers.

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Turkey taco recipe will be posted soon.

I hope you are enjoying your day!

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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.