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JonesCarpeDiem
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Like To Travel?

Never Had The Money To Go Anyplace?

      I Was Spending $150 A Month At $5  A Pack  When I Quit Over 11 Years Ago.

That's $1800 A Year or $19,950 I Haven't Spent On Cigarettes!

      If You Want Tangible Proof Smoking Was Robbing You, Start Putting The Money You Aren't Spending On Smoking In A Jar. (Or Open A Separate Account.)  You Can Call It "The Vacation Fund." Think Of It As Your Impetus To Keep Going Forward.  🙂

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And...You Won't Have To Smoke On Layovers!  🙂

Where have you traveled?

My mom loved to travel. She was a school librarian but, later in life she got a travel license and used to work at a travel agency after her school day. She would lead tours to Europe and the Holy Land. As a kid, we hit all the national parks, as well as Western Canada and Alaska. When I traveled with the Young Americans, we covered nearly all the lower 48 and Hawaii, plus, many trips to the Far East and Australia twice.

Now, I travel Online. 🙂

What's your favorite place you've been?

Where would you like to go?

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About the Author
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.