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PLANNING IS EVERYTHING!

JonesCarpeDiem
3 18 81

In quitting smoking as well as other choices, the key comes down to planning.

It always comes down to planning so I'm going to give you a list of the items in the breakfast I just had and your job is to tell me in what order you would eat them and why?

The why is the most important part in my view as that part is the real planning. If you know the why of what makes something work, it's more likely you will not falter. 

2 Strips Bacon

1 Sausage Patty

3 Pancakes

2 Scrambled Eggs

1 English Muffin

1 Hash Browns

Ready,

Set,

GO! 

I'll give you mine after we get some other responses because I don't want to influence your answers.

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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.