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Canned Meat

JonesCarpeDiem
5 12 83

      Your quit can seem like a constant diet of canned meat. You'd tire of it without variety just like Hoggie the cat.  (He wants what he wants but he can't talk or read labels.)

      I've learned his favorites over the past 13 years but, every once in awhile, when they've all become old favorites, I start all over again trying to figure out what he'll eat.

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Slumps are inevitable during the course of a quit but, indecision is not.

You can talk yourself out of smoking just as easily as you can talk yourself into it.

The BS bugger is you. You are responsible for changing things up

and staying one step ahead of the bugger!

Turn down the volume, and, let it go.

Live life free  

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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.