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The Long Game

JonesCarpeDiem
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There are going to be times when you just don't see it.

      I took Hoggie out this morning like I do every day. He rolls in the dirt and eats grass, chases lizards and spots gophers.

      I didn't have my camera outside with me at the time but I heard it.

I looked up and there in a clear sky, at 10,000 feet, I saw the silver underbelly of the jump plane.  I knew they would soon be spreading out in the sky. As the plane continued forward, I saw each one drop out of the plane,

AND THEN,

THEY DISAPPEARED!

I Lost Them.

      Moments later I could hear their chutes snap open but, damn, I couldn't see a one of them.  What seemed like minutes later, I saw them floating past the tops of the eucalyptus trees.

   Many will say to quit minute by minute, hour by hour, and day by day, but,

even then, many if not most, will lose their way.

This is why I post the long game.

What you will experience

What to watch out for

What stumbling block may get you and when

Milestones to look for

Ways to break the most stubborn crave.

      There is more than the moment you are in and, you have to have faith in the long game, though you may lose sight of it.

We are here to remind you of the long game.

We are your proof

We know how to do it and we are giving it to you,

so you can give it to someone else.

Faith In The Long Game!

Onward And Upward!

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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.