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If I Were Still A Smoker

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎09-12-2017 08:42 PM

I would have smoked a lot this morning.

      I'm a meticulous bargain hunter at the grocery stores. I'm not cheap and I'm not a haggler and I normally don't go to the chain that is the furthest away, but, they had watermelon on sale. 

      I decide to take a back way in the dark, to show how smart I think I am and I can't see ANY of the cross streets markings so I'm virtually driving blind. I finally get to my turn and get to the first store.   I saved $5.46  🙂

      I have two more stores and I'm not used to approaching the 2nd store from this direction. I was going 65 in a 45 when I realize

HEY, YOU'RE GOING TO MISS YOUR TURN!

      I  slammed on my brakes going 65 and I'm thinking. Hmm, I hear someone skidding. I'm beginning to inhale burning rubber. THAT SOMEONE IS ME,

Then the truck started skipping and jerking and I'm thinking,

"MISS THE ISLAND, MISS THE ISLAND!"

      I did by half a foot and pulled into the parking lot with a cab full of burning rubber smoke.

   I just wanted to confirm,

you can have just as much fun as a non smoker.

I got my dopamine from the danger, not a smoke afterwards. 

Nothing eventful at the third store except they didn't have what I wanted.  🙂

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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.