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Look For The Good Days

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎06-15-2019 07:56 PM

         We began "June gloom" (where it's grey all day almost every day of the month) the last day of May and it was 8 or 9 days before we got another sunny day.

         Quitting smoking can feel that way the first month but you have have the faith to look past it.

         If I wasn't a sunshine believer I could have given up the idea of the grey ever leaving.

             You need to know your quit will get better if you allow it and you need to recognize when it does and build on those days.

            I like to check the webcams along the coast about sunset and I got a stunning screen capture last night.

The day can be crappy and yet, the sunset can be beautiful.

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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.