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Under The Broiler

JonesCarpeDiem
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5 10 73
‎06-28-2018 08:10 AM

The tests we experience during our quit make us stronger...

the longer we go, the more tests, we experience,

it becomes candy.

Candy in the form of self esteem and a better life.

I made cinnamon toast again this morning.

I don't know why, but, preserves, and jam, just aren't "doing it" for me.

When I was young, I put the butter on the toast, covered it with the cinnamon sugar, then, dumped off the excess.

I still do but now, I take an extra step and put it under the broil setting in my toaster oven for 5 minutes.

It turns to a crunchy layer of cinnamon candy by taking that extra time.

Allow the time it takes

Realize the tests make you stronger.

Go the extra mile

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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.