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No More Wop Wop Wop Wop

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎01-16-2019 02:33 PM

I just had 4 new tires put on.

      Did you know your spare must meet certain tread depth requirements or they won't let you keep it.  My left rear tire tread depth passed as a spare, so I didn't have to buy 5 tires. 

      I had called yesterday and gotten quotes for two different warranty levels of tires, installed including tax. After more research,  I made an appointment for 9:30 this morning.

      I called this morning to confirm my appointment and the price quote and, they were 5% more.  So I drove the few miles wondering if they would honor yesterdays quote. If they didn't I was prepared to come home but I wanted to ask them in person because I had made an appointment and I'm always where I say I'll be.  

      I would have been smoking by now mulling what would happen in my mind but there was no smoking thought that came to mind. 

      Anyway, they honored yesterdays quote. I was perfectly calm with my confirmed price so I could relax. Solving these kind of daily problems when we would have smoked can be done without smoking!

AMEN

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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.