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Share your quitting journey

You are the person with the plan that makes your quit work.....Work It

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎05-27-2022 02:34 PM

          There was no half an half at the store yesterday morning. I bought a substitute, whipping cream.

          The electric cart at the grocery  store died at the back wall of the store. I grabbed an empty cart nearby and finished my shopping and checked out on my feet. 

          I am getting stronger. I haven't gone to PT.

I had PT and OT one day a week in the month I spent  home between nursing homes. The pain level was so bad, I wasn't getting benefits from either. I'm trying to learn my limitations before I start the stamina training at PT.

          I bought a countertop ice machine just before the second hospital and nursing home stay but my pain had been too much to get it out and set it up.

           I set it up yesterday and made 2 liters of ice cubes. [YAY ME]

 

          They say we learn something new every day.

Once we learn something new, it becomes  something knew. Hopefully we retain what we learned, especially, lessons learned during quitting.

Whipping cream makes biscuits and gravy creamier.

Who Gnu?

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I used half whipping cream and half whole milk. Gravy was great!

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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.