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When You Can't Get It Done, Is When You Push On To Get It Done.

JonesCarpeDiem
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      In 2014, I went to the store and my favorite body wash was no longer being sold. I soon found I couldn't find it anywhere locally. I went online and ordered 14 bottles so I could get the free shipping.

Well now it's RARE and going for $25-$30 a bottle plus shipping on ebay.

SCORE   I'll find another body wash. 

 

After

6 Communications with the seller (ebay cut off our communications after those 6)

2 long calls to ebay

5 MORE communications with the buyer with him wanting to add 5 more bottles after buying one, I still couldn't get it done.

BUT I THINK I JUST DID, THIRD LONG PHONE CALL....

      This IS the type of frustration that most of us will experience when we quit smoking. There will be trying times like this and, there will be the emotional times. 

The truth is, this happens to non smokers too.

You've got to push on to get what you want done.

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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.