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Fine Tuning Boredom

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎09-19-2020 10:10 AM

When you think you got it covered but it's not quite right.

      If you'll recall my post of a few days ago (best laid plans) I made pulled pork mac and cheese.

      Now, I love to cook, but, a 9 x 13 pan of anything is tough to get through when you live alone.

      After a couple days you want something different but you don't want what you made to spoil and you don't have freezer space.

      My solution was to add to the taste and I think I found the perfect addition to bypass the boredom and grow desire to finish the dish.

Honey BBQ sauce

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      You're going to have to find solutions to boredom during your quit. Be creative. Sauce it. You future depends on it.

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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.