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....the times we thought nothing could go wrong

JonesCarpeDiem
4 6 113

WE ALL HAVE THEM 

Life happens.

It can mean everything or nothing depending on how you process it.

      I was making some hanging inner door shelves for some large glass bottles of coffee flavorings this morning. (It was 8:30, neighbors be darned.    )

      I used to be able to buy just one type/flavor but they stopped selling that flavor in my area and now shipping costs as much as each bottle so, I'm blending my own.

      I blend two flavors to taste and put into two pint bottles once a month so I don't want the large glass bottles in my way the other 48,790 minutes of the month.

      I didn't get to the store so I was making due with the materials I had here

      Being that I'm a carpenter, it takes me longer to run a cord and set up the saw than the actual dozen pieces take to cut. I was limited by the length of one of the leftovers so I make one unit a inch less than the other two.

The last cut was figured so close, it kicked the staple and store tag out the end.

      When I was sweeping up, I found it, with my foot.

      Everything was going well right up to the end.

Don't let one bad moment ruin your quit

You can talk yourself out of 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.