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Share your quitting journey

Smoking has zero appeal for me

JonesCarpeDiem
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Life has changed radically since I had to put Hoggie down. Pets are so dependent and add so much to your life.

the one person from my life who can truly relate to this particular loss is my second wife. She helped his mother birth his litter 2 feet behind me.

we haven’t spoken since our daughters wedding 10 years ago but our daughter reconnected us after Hoggie passed.

it really helps to have someone to talk with at night.

I am at the nursing home to see my dad who is in PT. He has sounded pretty despondent the past two nights. I know he wants to leave this earth and at 97, I can’t blame him.

After just losing Hoggie, it would be pretty devastating to me.
Here I sit, life is changing every day. My arms are all beat up from dismantling Hoggies place. I’ve finally decided on a fix for the staircase his place was attached to. I’ve had to make multiple medical appointments for a possible surgery.

I crashed my truck and had to have $1600 of just mechanical work to make it driveable.

Everything happens at once.

Oh for better times

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No smoking for me. 
Life is short

I don’t do that anymore!

 

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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.