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Pathway To Happiness

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎12-30-2017 07:04 AM

Happiness is different for each of us but

we're all gonna have ups and downs in life.

There will be times when we feel "stuck"and just don't know

how to change our mind and move forward.

Your answer to this dilemma is there, within that line.

Most of us think we know what makes us happy and what doesn't.

When you begin to change your mind you'll realize it's not things that make you happy but the feelings you've created and attached to those things.

TIME

If you stick your quit out and get past the initial discomfort

of not doing what you've been used to for so long,

your eyes will be opened to thoughts that nicotine

and the ritual of smoking kept from 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.