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The Way In Is Also The Way Out

JonesCarpeDiem
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There are things a wolf looks at before it enters a new territory. They first determine their most vulnerable direction of attack and work

backward to the direction of least vulnerability. They do all this instantaneously.

It's called instinct.

The next time you go to a new place or a busy place,

catch yourself as you check out your surroundings. Think of this as you are walking through that crowd of people trying not to bump anyone on your way to your destination. Get the waitstaff to run interference.  🙂

We have the same instinct, though not as well honed as the wolf.

I believe our mind reads pictures in the same way. Our eye is drawn in different directions as we run through the scope and content of the picture

until we have formed our idea of what we've seen.

      See if the picture below leads your eye the same way as it lead mine?

First, the color of the flowers within the round hedges and shrubs. Second, the distance beyond the horses to gauge how big that fenced pasture area is for points of reference, Third, back to the horses and Fourth,  THE WHITE GATE.

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Think of smoking like that white gate. You went in that gate and you need to come back out. The only way to do that is by unlearning your connections to smoking and then, you can walk out the gate.

The Only The Way Out Is Through.

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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.