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Laughter is Contagious

JonesCarpeDiem
4 8 93

and releases dopamine

"Have you ever been having a bad day and all of a sudden someone around you laughs or they tell a joke and you start laughing and you feel better? I believe we have hormones in our body that when they are used in a good way make us feel great, but when we use them in a bad way then it makes us feel horrible. 

For example, eating lots of chocolate can trigger what I call the "happy hormones", but the problem is when you don't have the chocolate your body will keep wanting it over and over again because it's looking for those happy hormones that eventually run out. 

If you do something to trigger the "happy hormone" such as exercise or eat something healthy that you really enjoy, then I believe you'll feel better! Next time you want something that is not healthy, just think about how you want to feel afterwards. That always helps me! "

https://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=6599768&utm_source=sparkpeo...

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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.