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Sometimes It Takes More Material Than What You See In The Final Result

JonesCarpeDiem
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      This is a top view rendering of the walkway to Hoggies outside enclosed area. The two spaces did not line up so I had to angle the walkway to my window.  I wanted a landing inside that he could jump up to and get to his cat door and jump down from when he came back in. I knew I would waste as much material as I ended up with but, a full piece would not have a weak connection where it turned into the window.  (The light blue is the waste.)

Don't waste your quit by giving up too early!

Stick with it. When you glimpse the vision of yourself as a non smoker "real and within reach", let that spur you forward. That's what you're looking for.

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Allow For The Unexpected.

You're Worth It!

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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.