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Of Course We're All Different

JonesCarpeDiem
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      We all assume as we get older, we lose cognitive ability.

Why?

Because that's what we've always heard, right?

We always heard how hard it was to quit smoking too, didn't we?

My mom didn't smoke but that's what she told us.

I believe she did it to suggest we never start.

We Can't Always Believe What Was Heard And Passed On.

If It Was Rumor By Those With No Personal Experience,

Maybe Quitting Isn't So Bad And There Are People

Who Know How To Help Make It Easier?

http://neurosciencenews.com/neurogenesis-aging-8733/ 

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The researchers autopsied hippocampi from 28 previously healthy individuals aged 14-79 who had died suddenly. This is the first time researchers looked at newly formed neurons and the state of blood vessels within the entire human hippocampus soon after death. NeuroscienceNews.com image is in the public domain.

Grow Old But, Keep Your Wits About You. 

My dad's 92 and in good physical and mental health.

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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.