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Wish List

JonesCarpeDiem
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Was smoking on your list of things to attain?

      I was just on *mazon and added something to my wish list.  I'm often unsure of what I actually need and extraneous purchases are things that I'd "like for a day and hoard for forever."

      I have tools and tool parts in my list that I think I need but haven't determined which parts I actually need yet, so I don't buy them, I save them in my wish list.

      I'm sure there are some things on there like all episodes on the Untouchables on DVD. Most of us have some things that we'd like but don't need yet still seem special to us.

      Was Smoking really one of those? Was smoking special or did we just make it special?

Confess! It was the drug that kept us coming back. 

Smoking's kind of stupid actually.

The drug is what was special.

Taking the time to do it was planned.

Knowing where you could do it was planned.

It was a way of life.

A way of life we didn't even realize we were in.

All for a drug

Smoking Wasn't Special-Let that thing go. It's a "no admiration" thing. 

PS Got a drainage problem. I get to use the LED lighted camera with the 30 foot cable I bought, FINALLY.

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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.