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Sometimes

JonesCarpeDiem
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      Sometimes we are forced to do things we should've already done. I went into the garage yesterday morning and my freezer door was open. 

OUCH!

      Everything in the door had gone soft and the condition was spreading.

I didn't have the energy to go under the house and get the ice chests to load things in and defrost at that time. The sun was already up.

      Anyone who knows me knows I don't mess around when I must get things done.

I made a plan for this morning. I did go get the ice chests so they were out and ready for this morning.

      At 5am I opened the garage door and got my hand truck. I unloaded everything into the ice chests and a couple boxes and rolled the freezer outside.

      My way to defrost is to open the freezer door and melt all the ice with the garden hose. Takes less than 5 minutes. I wiped it out with a towel, rolled it back into position, turned it on, and, reloaded it.

      What I should've done but hadn't was to check for freezer burn so this was the time to examine and throw everything that I would no longer cook, AND I DID.

      Compare this to quitting. You know you should've quit long ago but you've put it off.

Now is your time to quit and get rid of the dead wood before a smoking related medical issue taps you on the shoulder.

Do it! We'll help you every step of the way!

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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.