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Some Ideas On How To Destress and Unfocus

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎03-05-2020 06:49 AM

Our focus was on smoking

You heard me.    You know I'm not lyin'

We say we smoke because of stress

But, that stress, could that stress just be the need for nicotine?

I have many ways I unfocus and let my  mind wander.

I really like live webcams.

This is one from a town about 65 miles from here.

I'll let the pictures speak of how effective a webcam is.

https://hdontap.com/index.php/video/stream/historic-julian 

Julian.jpg

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I also like the Flagstaff train station.

The sound of the trains is very soothing as they ride the rails passing through.

I've never seen engines in the middle of a train before, until now.

This was a really long train. Engines on both ends too.

2 engines.jpg

You can switch between two cameras too.

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Flagstaff, Arizona - Virtual Railfan LIVE - YouTube 

Everyone needs to relax and let their mind wander. 

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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.