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When It Comes To Quitting, Resistance Is Futile If You Want To Succeed

JonesCarpeDiem
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Now a resistance band however, is a different story.

I have a hard time exercising. I never did it my entire life.

When I was young, I body surfed and played football.

When I was on the road for years, I burned my calories onstage 5 sets a night.

When I was a carpenter..that did it

So it's been tough wanting to do something that's never been part of my life.

I've realized I need to learn to exercise like I unlearned smoking.

Getting back to the resistance band..

With my acid reflux, I've found there is less chance of reflux if I bend over rather than move up and down from the flat of my back. (sit ups)

I installed a heavy duty eyehook in the side of our stairs outside just above head height so no one walks into it.

I bought the heaviest band with handles I could at Wally World.

So you center the band on the hook and face away from it and walk forward until you get tension on the band.

You put your arms above your head keeping your elbows close together and both hands doubled up on the handles together.

Then you bend forward at the waist until you feel your stomach muscles tightening against the resistance. Then, just hold that for 30 seconds. Then bend on forward and back to that position 10 times leaving those muscles under tension for 30 seconds at a time and repeating the sets of ten perhaps 3 times at first

The beauty of this is you can judge what you are feeling and not overdo it and hurt yourself.

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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.