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ALL IN

JonesCarpeDiem
2 9 75

      I bought some French toast sticks that weren't my usual brand a couple months go.

They were different in that they were cut into strips after they were grilled. What that meant was only the top and bottom of the strips had any French toast flavor and, it didn't make up for keeping them. I tried them once and I threw them. Calories without reward.

      I was ALL IN on getting what I wanted and didn't want them using up space.

I bought my usual brand as soon as I could find them.

ALL IN is what your quit needs to be

or you'll be

FALLIN' for nicotine's lies all over again.

      "It relieves my stress." That was the biggest lie of all.

Nicotine CAUSES STRESS because when it wears off, YOU NEED MORE!

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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.