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~Life, Popcorn, & Smoking~

JonesCarpeDiem
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I've been eating quite a lot of popcorn lately.

I thoughtfully considered how I eat popcorn yesterday.

First, I crunch it with my teeth and then it goes to each side of my mouth.

The saliva brings the tastes to my tongue.

I wait and enjoy the flavor and chew some more.

This repeats and repeats until I'm out of popcorn.

So where do those pesky hulls go besides between my teeth?

My discovery?

They have been collecting in the back of each side of my mouth.

So am I going to swallow them?

Hell No! 

As life moves in it's circle of ups and downs,

we have a choice as to whether we smoke or not.

After awhile, thoughts of smoking become like those useless hulls that get between your teeth and irritate your bowels.

Smoking~SPIT IT OUT

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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.