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Share your quitting journey

You Have Many Choices And Ways In Life

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎05-29-2018 07:12 AM

to find satisfaction, other than smoking a cigarette.

You have surely found different things along your path that

interested you and have given you joy, yes?

Maybe it's quiet time. Maybe it's music.

Perhaps scrap booking or some kind of craft.

Or Cycling, Jogging, Or, Dance

Maybe you like baking. Maybe photography?

Everyone Likes Ice Cream Yes?

And you have your favorites, yes?

      I've found I can always find things I like on sale so, that is how I plan my shopping, that, and how much room I have in my refrigerator. If there's one or two things not on sale or staples, I will go ahead and buy them.

      I shop 4 stores, not all on the same day. Three of them have online flyers that are easy to peruse, one doesn't. I typically download the flyers as PDF files and scan them while I have coffee and start building a list the day before and the day they take effect.     

I'M MAKING A PLAN BASED ON WHERE EVERYTHING IS IN EACH STORE. When you shop at 6am it takes minutes. You learn where everything is and you don't have to try and go around people.

      If I want ice cream, chances are I will find something I like on sale at one of these 4 stores.

      Finding your favorite ice cream on sale is similar to planning your quit.

 I've found black stainless steel spoons that are unbendable by ice cream.

(You gotta have the right tools  )

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Make A Plan, Get The Right Tools, And, Make Your Quit Unbendable

OK Dig In

No ice cream was injured remained. in the execution of this blog.  

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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.