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How Do You Keep Your Quit?

JonesCarpeDiem
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YOU WORK AT IT!

      I've always tried to conserve water and electricity, both of which are overpriced in California due to their environmental plans.

      I ran my air conditioner no more than one hour total during the entire heat wave.

I don't have cable and internet is nearly $100 a month from one of only two providers in my area, the other being DSL which we found slow and unreliable.

      My internet provider offers of $19.99/month to suck people in then, after the first year they jack your rate up higher year after year. I resent their monopoly. I've now made it a game TO GET EVERY LAST GIGABYTE.

Last month I got within 13GB of the 1280 limit.

I do this by checking my usage often, almost daily the last 10 days of the monthly cycle.

I used EVERY LAST GIGABYTE WHEN THE CYCLE ENDED YESTERDAY.

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      If you'll take charge and act instead of react during stressful times, your quit will survive and thrive!

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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.