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Benedict Arnold

Have you ever managed to break a bad habit? Any habit? How did you do it?

Posted - January 15, 2017
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  • 10052
    Two parts courage, one part good lawyer.
      January 15, 2017 8:03 PM MST
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  • I'd love to know but I'm not gonna ask. I'm not. I...
      January 15, 2017 8:27 PM MST
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  • 10052
    Lol! Nothing that interesting... I guess I should have said DIVORCE lawyer.
      January 15, 2017 9:01 PM MST
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  • Ah, I was just funnin. You didn't have to tell me. Even so, I had visions of a high priced lawyer getting you acquitted of multiple counts of homicide. 
      January 15, 2017 9:14 PM MST
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  • 10052
    Hahahaha! I don't even kill bugs! :)
      January 15, 2017 9:20 PM MST
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  • 5808
    when in the US Navy I smoked
    after getting out I quit
    When in the US Navy I drank alcohol
    after getting out i quit
    ...just quit
    never looked back
    I just lost interest
    so it was easy...
    and that was long ago.
      January 15, 2017 8:19 PM MST
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  • For some people it IS that easy. For some it's a major problem. I stopped drinking the night I fell off a train. Thought it might be safer to stay sober.
      January 15, 2017 8:27 PM MST
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  • I did manage to quit on of my worst habits :) I still have a handful of bad ones though :/ you know I'm very open about my life , but this habit even I won't post online. How  I did it.... was I ended up waking up in hospital realizing I'm lucky to be alive and decided I'd like to live... And so I did :)
      January 15, 2017 8:24 PM MST
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  • That's a dramatic way to find out, Jaimie. If you read my comment below Baba's answer you'll see I had a similar experience. 
      January 15, 2017 8:28 PM MST
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  • 3523
    I quit smoking NOT by telling myself I would never have another cigarette.  But instead by allowing myself to smoke only when I went on monthly trips for work.  After several months, I smoked so infrequently that it started to make me feel sick.  Soon afterward the desire to smoke "went up in smoke."  I have never really missed it.
      January 15, 2017 8:29 PM MST
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  • That worked well. Glad you made it. 
      January 15, 2017 8:49 PM MST
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  • 283
    I used to smoke when I was out drinking with my friends. Then I noticed I was smoking when I wasn't drinking. I gave it up for Lent, and it stuck. That was about 25 years ago.
      January 15, 2017 8:34 PM MST
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  • My brother smoked heavily in his teens and early 20s then one morning announced that he had quit. And so he had. Until he married a woman who smoked. But a few years later they both managed to quit. It's different for everybody.
      January 15, 2017 8:51 PM MST
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  • 283
    My dad smoked for decades. He tried several times to quit and just couldn't do it. He had emergency gallbladder surgery and was in the hospital for a week with a morphine drip. It was enough to get him through his nicotine withdrawals and he hasn't smoked since.
      January 15, 2017 9:29 PM MST
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  • My daughter is a very heavy smoker -- she admits to 50+ a day, and I think she's telling the truth. I'd hate to see her lungs. 
      January 15, 2017 9:37 PM MST
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  • 22891
    i broke a soda habit when it was affecting my joints, i just quit cold turkey
      January 15, 2017 8:36 PM MST
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  • That's pretty good.
      January 15, 2017 8:38 PM MST
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  • Good one. Unusual habit. 
      January 15, 2017 8:52 PM MST
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  • Nope.
    Im at a comfortable whatever stage with my bad habits. I feed them every now and then, and they don't take over. No struggle there.
      January 15, 2017 8:41 PM MST
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  • Balance is smart. Leo McKern (aka Rumpole of the Bailey) said that he couldn't imagine giving up any habit just s that he could live for a few more years in an old people's home. 
      January 15, 2017 8:53 PM MST
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  • That's what I say.
      January 15, 2017 9:00 PM MST
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  • 5614
    Is a bad habit managed a bad habit broken?
      January 15, 2017 8:41 PM MST
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  • Answering with a question. Yes, I believe it is. Once we control the habit it no longer controls us. Makes perfect sense to me. 
      January 15, 2017 8:54 PM MST
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  • 5614
    I know many who would disagree. Whole chapters of Alcoholics Anonymous for example. That bad habit, they call addiction. This post was edited by O-uknow at January 15, 2017 9:12 PM MST
      January 15, 2017 8:57 PM MST
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