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Breath Is Life

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎09-20-2020 06:38 AM

How To Take the Perfect Breath: Why Learning To Breathe Properly Could Change Your Life 

      Friday was national cheeseburger day and I emailed my buddy Steve to see If he wanted to partake.

      Well, he said he was sort of tied up and had checked into the VA Hospital for the weekend.

      A little history. He has stage 4 COPD and has been hospitalized with pneumonia at least 20 times, so, he has a difficult life and has had to curtail his normal activities due to his preexisting conditions and Covid 19.

      He got back to me yesterday. He had gone to the VA to get his shots Friday and started feeling too bad to drive home as he left the hospital. As it turns out, he has a collapsed lung.

   I'll get him a cheeseburger Monday if he promises to not inhale it.  

Breath is precious

Save your breath

For without it

We are dead 

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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.