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It Doesn't Work If You Don't Rub The Needles. :-)

JonesCarpeDiem
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         When I got off the road, I was in pretty good shape. Playing 45 minutes, 5 times a night kept me there.

         I've always loved to eat, and cook, and eat.

After being off the road for 6 months, I had gained 30 pounds. Searching around, I decided to try accupuncture.

         They place little needles connected and projecting from a circle about 1/8 in diameter into certain nerves in your ear. (I was told there are 300 nerve endings in your ears and the same 300 in your feet and they are all related to different body functions.)

         One was for tension/stress and the other was for appetite. They are covered with a thin tape so they don't fall out and, when you get stressed and hungry, you rub them gently in a circular motion to stimulate the nerve endings. You go in once a week to make sure the placement has not changed.

         After a month, I had lost those 30 pounds, but it would not have happened if I had just thought about rubbing the needles. I actually had to rub them.  🙂

         You will get a lot of different advice here USE IT.  We are here to spark your thought and we hope something we say will turn the switch on for 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.