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Getting your balance

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎09-29-2018 09:42 AM

      We had some movers relocate some large items 2 miles away and I was in charge of the move. 

      For the heaviest items (a 300+ pound solid oak roll top desk that I had to remove the sliding glass door to get it through)  they had to work together.

      I noticed they would stop to make sure the other person was ready to make the effort at that moment, and then, they would push forward.

      When you quit smoking, there is no other person.

   You are it. You need to stop in that moment, get your balance back, and,  REALLY decide what's going to happen next.  If you are in public, excuse yourself and walk away for a few minutes.

Regain your balance. Move Forward.

You are it!

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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.