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JonesCarpeDiem
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Of your quit.

      I leave the Flagstaff train station live feed website open most of the time and there are trains going through every 15 minutes or so. When I hear the railroad crossing bells go off you know one is coming.

      The ones that come from the West are usually slower and I believe that's because they have to climb such a grade to get to Flagstaff. The ones coming from the East are usually faster but occasionally you hear one coming and it's barreling down the tracks and through the station at 70MPH. The power is immense, you can hear it, you know that nothing in this world could stop it...

(the LARGEST CRAVING)

That my friends, is when you bite into a lemon skin and all!

That my friends, is when you stick your head in the freezer and count backwards from 20.

Onward and upward!

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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.