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First day for me to go shopping in the designated senior and underlying disease hours

JonesCarpeDiem
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I really wanted Half & Half, Bread and Potatoes.

I got all three.

      The half and half was slightly bulgy but I'm taking my chances.

The bread was a cracked wheat cheapie (who cares when you just want a piece of bread) They only had six 5 pound bags of potatoes.

      I was going to buy a second bag for my brother but with so few left, I decided someone else should be as happy as me to get a bag of potatoes. (I gave my brother all the big ones from my bag when I got home.) That makes yet another person happy.

Life has changed.

Life will continue to change 

I truly believe it is easier to cope with change as an eX smoker.

That's part of the freedom we keep speaking of.

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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.