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Share your quitting journey

You control your landing

JonesCarpeDiem
6 9 99

You have everything you need to do it.

      We live three miles from the ocean on top of a steep hill.

There is a canyon right behind our house and a valley at each end of that canyon.

Our municipal airport is in that valley and they have a skydiving business.

(Boy, couldn't we have some fun at an eX reunion?)

They typically jump on the weekends, probably close to twice an hour during peak, but, any clear weekday, it's not surprising to see one or two jumps.

      You'll hear the plane before you see it. I sometimes spot it just before they jump. It looks very tiny and so, is very hard to find with the camera.

This was it yesterday with the telephoto lens full out.

If you draw a visual line from the plane to the lower right corner,

you can see a jumper's pilot chute before their main chute has opened.

https://adventure.howstuffworks.com/skydiving4.htm

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You'll hear the crack of the chutes opening long before you see the jumpers.

But gravity is a pretty darn sure thing and soon, you see 7 or 8 of them

circling in the sky.

(all of that circling time is them "enjoying the ride.")

Think of this as your quit.

Let us be your gravity

Your willingness to not fight yourself

will bring your success so, why not enjoy the ride?

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Trust yourself. It'll all work out

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All's well that ends well

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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.