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Share your quitting journey

Choices

JonesCarpeDiem
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you can choose to go left or right.

to the left is a nice drive to the beach

to the right is the road to the garbage pit

don't let your choice to quit smoking be a trip to the garbage pit

you may not feel like yourself but isn't that the point?

starting anything new can be the biggest challenge in your life

or

joyful because your eyes are on the prize and you

are willing to weather the storms.

keep your eye on the prize. it is so worth it.

dale

completing my 4th year tobacco free

"life is full of storms. some we can choose to step around"

3 Comments
maggie_8-1-2010

Nicely put dale.

pam-c
Member

Congrats on 4 great years!  Thank you for still being here writing such inspirational blogs.

Strudel
Member

Oh so nice Dale dear! Thanks!

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.