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What's On The Inside?

JonesCarpeDiem
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We've smoked so long we've settled for smoking and either never found,

or simply lost sight of special parts of ourselves.

Quitting Opens Up The Opportunity To Find What's Beautiful

      About a week and a half ago, our neighbors put up a for sale sign. I've never been in their home and I've been curious as to what the inside looks like ever since the sign went up. They are both veterinarians and have a daughter. They are the ones that chased the coyote and made it let go of Hoggie the first year I moved back here.

      Last night I googled their address and there are now pictures. I know their taste may not be your or my taste but it sure opened my eyes as to what we don't see and what we can see.

The outside looks pretty bleak

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But, look at the inside.  🙂

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PS My younger brother and my dad helped set those lodge poles and do a lot of the framing for the original owner builder in 1994 who owned a welding company.

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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.