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Share your quitting journey

Do you resent people more knowledgeable of a topic or better at a skill than yourself?

JonesCarpeDiem
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      When I was a working musician, I realized there were people better than myself on a guitar.  Now, I never learned guitar to be the greatest guitarist. I learned guitar to accompany my voice and the greatest thing I learned was how to leave space so the voice was the focus and the guitar complimented to let the music breathe.

      I succeeded at that.

      To get to that place, I played with a lot of musicians who were much better than myself and likely learned a turn or phrase or feeling to add to my ability from each of them.

      Now, I don't play or sing much anymore.

      I have switched my interests to research on many topics. I think of something,

google it, and follow it out as far as I can until I find the answers that give me resolve. It seems I want to soak up information like a sponge.

      The seed idea for this blog was to ask you to be open to learning.

      People here have your best interest at heart.

      Don't feel beaten if you fail but figure out where you went wrong and let us help you around and through.

Write about it

We understand

but it helps to know

all your highs and lows

so we can help you grow

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this morning's sunrise from our backyard

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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.