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**** happens but smoking doesn't need to follow

JonesCarpeDiem
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Unexpected thrills can happen at any time.

      I was trying to figure out how to get a power strip for my small wall hung tv that I plug my little computer into when I'm working in that room. The only plug close was in the ceiling.  I found a metal shelf under the house that used to be in my workshop 35 years ago that had a built in power strip.

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      After a time, I determined the only way to make it most functional, was to lower the tv and mount the power shelf above it.

      I needed to separate the tv from the wall mount first so I found some nut drivers and wrenches. When I finally got the nut off, I pulled the connector pin (here's the thrills part)

      All of a sudden, the tv was out of my hands. I mean literally out of my hands flying off to the right, through the air.  (I had my right hand  under it when I pulled the pin but it tipped over when I pulled the pin.)

      It didn't hit the ground. It hit a wooden keyboard holder on the front of my bike hard and I snagged it just before it went down. It was jolted, but not visibly damaged.

      After I remounted the TV and got everything plugged back together, I found everything still works.

      When you get into the swing of being a non smoker, s**t happens but smoking doesn't.  .

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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.