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How Do You Know Things You've Never Tried Don't Work?

JonesCarpeDiem
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It's before 4am. I've been up an hour.

It's foggy out and pitch black and dogs are barking. The fog amplifies the sound and there are  more dogs starting up  across the canyon.

So I'm thinking, I wonder how I could shut them up?

I open the flap on Hoggie's door (it's about chest high) and I let it slap at the end of it's travel.

That got their attention. SILENCE

Then I let out a very low pitched extended mantra like Ahhh.

It was an almost inhuman sound a la foghorn.

Guess What? It shut them up.

Trying new things keeps life interesting.  🙂

And the point of this post is:

Try new things after you've quit. New things make it easier to embrace change, and, try the things we suggest when you  get a craving. 

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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.