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I didn't expect this

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎01-15-2021 11:32 AM

      I looked at the weather channel about 4:30am.

      It was 57F.  That's pretty warm for that early. We've been lucky to get up to 60 or 65 most days.

I was going shopping at 5am.

I stepped outside and felt it then.

The wind off the desert.

The Santa Ana winds.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/what-are-santa-ana-winds-2/343027 

These HIGH SPEED winds make it difficult to fight fires and, iIt's always dry here except for 6 weeks or so starting in mid Feb but there is no rain is predicted.

We're hitting 80F at 11am.

On a positive note:

      An offshore wind can be great for surfing because it holds the face of a wave up longer than normal.  Just before it breaks, there is a wispy then stronger spay off the top edge of the wave as the wing catches the edge.

      Many things are going to happen that you didn't expect

when you quit smoking.

Brace for them with knowledge but most of all,

STAY CALM.

SMOKING ISN'T BIGGER THAN YOU

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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.