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Who Will You Trust To Guide You Or Hire To Do The Work?

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎06-17-2021 07:10 AM

     I went to the podiatrist this morning and afterwards, stopped at a nearby store to pick up a few groceries.

As I was turning into a parking space, I was blocked by a large black pickup truck.

Before I could pull in, the driver asked if he could give me an estimate to pull a dent out of my truck.

I said sure. He went through his spiel and and suggested he could pull the dent in my left rear quarter panel for $250 and do it in about 20 minutes.

First I'm thinking. THAT'S A LOT OF MONEY FOR 20 MINUTES work, and I tell him no.

So then he goes into "how much would you pay?"  I told him I wasn't interested.

Here's the kicker, his truck had a lot more dents than mine, a lot more.

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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.