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JonesCarpeDiem
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it just rained here

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And it brought back real good memories of smoking

I used to love to go out front and run between two tall Italian Cypress trees and under the cedar canopy at the front side gate to smoke.     and it would pour

I'd smoke only one. That's all I'd take outside because I was usually shirtless. 

Raindrops tapping on my shouders

I severely sincerely enjoyed it.  🙂

One of my favorite smoking memories.

For me, I feel like you almost have to handle quitting, like a divorce. 

          You don't have to hate someone to divorce. You don't have to hate smoking to quit.

          You're never going to unravel exactly what happened,

          You're two people, or an addiction.

          You had some good years.

          Why turn all the good bad?

          Quitting  might be easier to accept if you'll look at in that way.

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Don't throw away good memories

Enjoy them

Yiou don't need to smoke

To enjoy a memory

 

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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.