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"Special Problems"

JonesCarpeDiem
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I'm pigeon toed. I just knew it affected my smoking and would keep me from quitting. (somehow?)

For sure being a closet smoker makes it 1000 times harder. (some way?)

Oh, and I smoked menthol cigarettes for 40 years too don't chu know!

Anybody with a white car too. big problems there.

So many of us with  "special problems" and reasons we've failed again and again.

I don't know how I've stayed quit 7 and a half years. (actually I do. I stopped lying to myself)

Now, I'm wondering if the white truck I've had since last October will take me back to smoking? :j

Can you see what you've done?

Stop saying "I have reasons I can't" and begin saying "I Can!"

18 Comments
promise_judy
Member

Great Point. TU Dale!

linda.mustafa
Member
Dale you are my INSPIRATION :)Hugs xx
nanawendy
Member

AMEN 

Magstoyou
Member

Thanks Dale, your blogs are reminders to me and great inspiritations!!! 

Keeps me in check!!

Mag311d

pir8fan
Member

That is easy for you to say, but I don't like okra squash turnip greens vegetables!! How am I suposed to get around that? Huh? Huh??

freeneasy
Member

Yea- I can't stand liver-it looks good like I want to eat it-but just  a couple of inches  before a fork full gets to my mouth and I get a whiff ...peeu.. I still struggle with that..)-:

stmand92
Member

So true. Thanks for the motivation boost.

annb
Member
LOVED this. Right on the money as usual!!
rosemarymom
Member

How right you always are!  Now if there was a way to get around milk! YUK!  But it is always in the house!!!  One has to cope somehow!

pir8fan
Member

No Worries Rosemary! I will drink the milk for you! Love it! I have always said "If you can EXtract a better tasting beverage from a docile barnyard animal you should drink it!"

JonesCarpeDiem

I hear it makes the bacon go down better too Tommy!

c2q
Member

Far sighted, that's my problem. I've worn glasses since I was 2 - how did I manage to get the cigarettes away from my face, I ask you. I have a white car too! Should I sell it now or just park it somewhere and leave it?

luxie
Member

LMAO what a way to start the weekend...Great blog

Marion

elvan
Member

Great blog...funny how all of the excuses I had actually disappeared when I quit or maybe it's just that quitting took their power away and I don't have those excuses any more.  I have to laugh at people when they give me THEIR excuses and I realize that they are either the same as mine were or they are even more lame.  Thanks for the reminder, presented, as usual with humor.

indnprincess
Member

Haha!

phyllis-12-7-15

Jim I love liver......hate spinach LOL

Good one Dale

Are you sure they won't relieve stress? : )

HUGS

harry18
Member

Dale I don't know how you do it or where you come up with some of this stuff but it really does put everything in perspective Blogs like yours has made the decision to become a non-smoke very easy. all I had to do was get rid of all the excusses and stop following and start leading. You will probably never know how many of us you have helped to keep our Quit on THANK YOU

brenda-again
Member

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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.