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Is Everyone Battening Down The Hatches For Winter?

JonesCarpeDiem
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We are supposed to have a large as opposed to moderate El Nino this winter.

(it means "the kid" in Spanish but evidently it's a kid without a diaper and a full bladder)

I remember a moderate one in 1991. I believe we got 27 inches in one month. I had to drill holes in the floor of the job I was working in order to keep the water from standing on them so we could keep working and then, pump out the water to the street. Fortunately, I had waterproofed the floors so the plywood wouldn't delaminate/separate. Many other contractors had to start over when their plywood was ruined.

This is the advantage of planning and looking ahead with your quit. You can avoid problems before they arise.

There's nothing worth smoking over.

I'm building an ark.  🙂

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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.