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Little Mountain Town

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎12-01-2019 06:35 AM

      We have a  few places in Southern California that get snow, if not rarely.   

For some people, snow is money

Tourists bring, the milk and honey

      For seasonal business, you count on that flush time to get you through the year. I was always self employed. Some years were better than others

      So, life changes. The empty and the full. The happy and the sad. The flush and the flushed.

      

      When we quit smoking we tend to feel the downs more frequently because we're missing our crutch. This passes. Give quitting the time to build your freedom. Allow it.

Last night at 7pm

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7 hours later

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Changes, We can't stop them, but,

we can choose to accept them and

not let them hamper our enjoyment of life.

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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.