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Share your quitting journey

Life doesn't always treat you the way you want. Hoggie is at the end of his.

JonesCarpeDiem
Member
5 20 366
a month ago

These are the times that TRY one's quit.

These Daffodill's

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become Deadfodill's

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Expectations run out of steam

Don't Go Back!

Hold Onto Your Quit!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LafDb6-f8FI

It says my video is set to private and won't allow me to embed it.  (I didn't set it to private. PC users can right click and choose "open in another window.")

Hoggie is struggling. He hasn't eaten for a few days and has lost considerable weight. He falls over when he tries to stand or walk and can't make it to the window to use his litter box. He was born on a corner chair 2 feet behind my head and has been my constant companion for almost 19 years. He's been beside me through every song I've written since 2006. He's travelled out of the country. He is the last living one of his litter of 5 brothers. He would have turned 19 on May 10.  I'm going to miss him deeply.

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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.