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Making the best of a "situation" and enjoying it!

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎05-22-2018 07:37 PM

      My buddy Steve and I have been trying to get together for cheese enchiladas at the beach for 3 or 4 days.

      Well, today was the day. We went to  a divey Mexican drive through that I go to at least once a week and got two containers with two enchiladas in each but when we parked on the beach to eat, we realized they had only given us one plastic knife and one plastic fork instead of two sets. I must've looked and felt all through that empty bag three or four times while Steve was looking on the floor in front of my seat.  NADA

      So, we ate our cheese enchiladas, me, with a plastic knife and Steve with his flimsy plastic fork.

      Ahh yes, it was a little awkward but they tasted just as good, I didn't drop anything on my shirt. and, the views were great.

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      Not everyday of your quit will be joyful but you have the power to make it the best for you by how you allow yourself to flow with it.  Don't give up because you only have one utensil. 

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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.