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I must not have....

JonesCarpeDiem
2 9 80

First Thing!

I burned my (ex-smoking) fingers this morning. 

      I don't think it's bad but it hurts and I can't tell how bad it is until some hours pass.

      My coffeemaker sits in a cubbie above my desk. The basket and water access is special in that you don't have to open the top to get to either. I make a pot with 4 bottles of drinking water, have a fresh 16oz and the rest goes into a carafe and gets reheated the next three days, then, the cycle repeats.

      I normally don't sit and watch it while it makes the coffee because it has a special "aroma" setting that slows the brewing but I got up to check it, it was overflowing the pot, my desk, and pooling on the carpet.

      The only thing I can think of is there was still coffee in the pot itself and I must not have noticed because the coffeemaker only holds 4 bottles of water and it would have overflowed when I was putting in the water if it had two bottles of water still in it.

   While I was taking the pot into the next room it spilled all over my fingers that were holding the pot which made me set the pot down very fast, making another big mess.

Live and burn

but not cigarettes

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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.