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trvlerbill2 
You know, had to change my whole mindset concerning my relationship with my weeds. This is something we all have to do to help us sever the strong ties/bonds we have with our smoking habits. For the longest time - oh, most of my 12 year marriage I'd say, the wife would refer to my smoking habit as "the other woman" in our relationship.
I never smoked around my wife, in our homes or our vehicles. Even while outside together, I'd usually go off away from her to have my smoke. I spent a HUGE amount of time with my "other woman", and boy how willing she was to have whatever time I could spare.
A few months before I quit, I realized that I needed to start looking at my habit in another way. Thinking of my nic addiction as my female lover I spend my every other moment with, was not doing much to influence me to give it up. It didn't help that by now the "other woman" sentiment was so ingrained in our thoughts and vocabularies, that the wife would often ask me when I'd return from a smoke,..."well, how was she?" It really did become a pitiful joke and the wife of course resented all my time spent with "her".
So, I began my campaign of turning it all around mentally and that's how I come up with the "shit sandwich". We stopped all references to my smoking habit as "the other woman in our relationship". It now became just simply "my shit sandwich". Every time I would retreat to the back porch for my weed, I'd envision myself eating one.
Lets see. Shit on Rye with pickles and onion. Shit on Pumpernickel with tomato and lettuce. Shit on 7-Grain with Swiss cheese and mayo....... It's absolutly crazy the things addiction will drive us to do.
If the wife would see me headed outside, she'd say,..."bring a napkin". See, allow me to explain.... when you eat a shit sandwich, often times the shit is messy and you need that napkin to wipe shit off your chin or shirt or off the table.
So, Saturday July 12 at 11:40pm I had my last shit sandwich. That one was VERY messy if I remember correctly. Shit everywhere and I used a "wet-nap" to clean up afterwards.
Are YOU romancing your old smoking habit? Maybe it would help you to change the way you think of it?
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Even when being inspirational, you still crack me up Bill! That was great post, especially for being so shitty!
wickworx
Amazing how that worked Bill~...you and your wife are awesome....thanks for the story...
dchinlady
Wow! That is such a creative way of thinking! It's very inspirational...gross, but inspirational! LOL!
Naecarter
ROTFLMBO!!! That has got to be the best and grossest anti-smoking story I've ever heard. Hey! Whatever works. Well done. :)
shevie
You are a riot!!!! I never referred to it this way but I love the analogy- it was shitty smoking all those years. I referred to it as 'my best friend'.... now I see it for what it really is- 'my worst enemy'... I love your journals- you crack me up!!! And your corresponding photos are so funny!!!! Congrats on being so strong!!!!!
forerica
Lol, how can your wife compete with that skinny stick? She must be thrilled to get that ash out of your lives....
ptriss
That that IS a great word replacement for the s work....retraining your brain is what it's all about!!! YOU ARE SO FUNNY!!!
wils
well, that does make sense. also, remember when we used to have to smoke in that little box in the st. louis airport with all the normies walking by with a look of unmitigated disgust at our frantic efforts to get a few last minute puffs in before we boarded the plane and tried to look disciplined and worthy of trust. our respective desperation was pitiful. i like the shit sandwhich bit. kind of makes sense--even coming from my bud. lol!
itsmylife
hey bro ! yep great detail in that shit sandwhich bra!! I could taste it fuckn awful!! hahhaaaaa-
DAyum-what a gift with them descriptive words you have my freind!!Great peice of Authoring I must say!!
Bon-apetito!!
BeeRokka
I shouldn't have read this with my breakfast LOL :O
RealJoy
Huh! That's what I said about my husband's (X's) love affair with his beer~the other woman.
She won. :(
4mytasha
Interesting analogy........ :)
Rhonda2
i will have to try that with my hubby...lol
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