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They had just bought a home and had their first baby.

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎02-02-2019 06:57 PM

"Tom"

      I was working for a young couple in Westchester adding a master suite to the back of the home they had just moved into.

      We we're done with framing, rough plumbing and electrical and waiting on the inspector so we could cover and start insulation and drywall. We had removed enough fence boards and started a master suite right next door. 

      It was a Friday afternoon. Tom was an active 30 year old and hurried off to go snowboarding with his buddies at the first big snow of the season at Mammoth Mountain.

      He never came back. He was killed in a snowboarding accident.

      A quick death might seem better than a slow one because you are not building up to it with an illness but, it was  devastating to his wife and the child that was just getting to know him.

It was out of his control. An accident

You don't accidentally smoke.

Smoking is a choice.

Save yourself. Save your health.

This is something you have control over.

Take it.

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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.