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Helpful Information (Unrelated To Smoking)

JonesCarpeDiem
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If your Windows laptop freezes, it likely needs to be reset.

Turn it off and unplug the power supply cord at the computer.

Remove the battery if it is removable.

If it does not have a removable battery, press and hold the power button down for 30 seconds then plug it back in and turn it on.

It may take quite awhile, maybe 10 minutes before you even see a screen that's letting you know it found the problem and is making repairs.

This is the road home.

Give it time it needs to make the repairs and get you to the sign in screen.

After you sign in, let all the programs load before you start working.

After the next time you shut it down it will automatically go to the repaired startup and should work normally.

Make sure to have it do the regular windows updates.

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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.