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Share your quitting journey

24 hours early?

JonesCarpeDiem
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4 5 164
‎05-03-2022 07:45 PM

much action 

          much needing to grow energy and stamina. I start PT outside the home next week.

note to self:    "You've lost 70 pounds. Buy smaller clothes." 

           I shipped 3 pair of pants (all too big) back this morning on my way home from my Dr. appointment that I showed up a day early for yesterday. 🙂 

          I bought 2 pair of these because of the color and my changing wasteline. Looking for a shirt with  apricot colors to go with them. 

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          We took Hoggie outside so he could eat some grass and some sun. When I got out the door I saw a coyote inside our fenced area about 30 feet from Hoggie and HOGGIE WASN'T PAYING ATTENTION! 

I chased it outside the fence and down the hill and then, almost fell down trying to pick some of the last loquats.

Pure anti-oxidant grenades.

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These were by far, the tastiest ones I've ever had. 

I had to declare I was a 40 year former smoker who quit in 2007 at the doctor.

Quitting is it's own reward

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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.