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I Just Received A Call

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎04-19-2018 09:33 PM

      It showed on caller ID as Twinda, the friend I met 11 years ago on the quit smoking site I had quit on.

      I had meant to call her the past weekend and didn't get around to it so I was excited to talk with her.

      As you know I was planning to fly her here to spend a week and then she had a COPD flareup and required oxygen 24/7.  "I Have Some Bad News" 

      That was a huge hindrance because she couldn't bring enough with her for a week which meant I was going to have to figure that out and the accommodations wouldn't be certain until the very last moment.

      The last time we spoke, I was going to try to go up there.

The call tonight

It was her daughter.

My friend passed away this morning.

 

RIP Twinda  (She was a twin and I am a twin and when we met, I had a number of Linda's in my life, so I always called her Twinda.)

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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.