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by daratmastah » Mon Jun 08, 2015 3:05 pm
Discuss The Mind of Gabriel Belmont here! What bad habits are you trying to overcome? How do you help yourself in this internal struggle?
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by roarImADino4 » Mon Jun 08, 2015 6:45 pm
For myself, I’m somewhat recently coming out of a smoking cigarettes chapter of my life, which was not good at all. And it’s still a struggle every day to not go grab a pack when things start getting really stressful and I don’t think I can handle it. I luckily never got to the level of being addicted where I really went through much withdrawal or anything like that. The number one influence to get me to quit was my girlfriend, Nicole, who made it her job to make sure I knew that I wasn’t alone in every stressful situation, that I can go to others and rely on their advice and support to get me through when the going gets tough. But something that wasn’t very helpful were the people who kept getting in my face every time they found out I smoked and yelled at me and said I was throwing my life away and I should know it’s bad for me and that I’m killing myself. Maybe that’s what I was trying to do, and you’re just making it worse and worse right now? What if your yelling at me for doing it is the very reason I keep going back to it? It hurt my self esteem that People thought I was so stupid I didnt know it was bad for me. Of course I knew. It didn’t change the fact that I was involved in them.
I have a lot of bad habits I’m trying to break, but that was a big first step. Gaining the knowledge and the full force belief that I was not alone was the beginning of the end. The bad eating, the bad sleeping, the bad life decisions, the knowingly stupid choices, they’re all hopefully dominoes ready to fall in my future.
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by ken-oh33 » Tue Jun 09, 2015 5:56 am
I say congratulations on quitting smoking, it is a battle I’m still fighting and I keep going back more out of habit than anything else now. I also seem to have quite the reverse problem in terms of people yelling at me. I keep hearing that I won’t quit smoking and few people remind me how bad it is. Still you’ve conquered one of the most difficult challenges anyone can face and as we say, it’s all down hill from here, meaning it gets easier to conquer bad habits once you realize you can.
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by roarImADino4 » Tue Jun 09, 2015 6:47 am
Thanks a lot. I still use a vaporizer for the feeling of smoking, but I alternate between 3mg of nicotine and 0mg. It’s honestly just for the habit of it. And I love the flavors you get from it too 
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by daratmastah » Tue Jun 09, 2015 9:39 am
Good on the both of you for fighting the good fight.
Personally, I’m working on overcoming my lack of focus, and one of the ways I’m overcoming this is by building a new, more regulated schedule for myself. Since starting work on the blog full time, a constant challenge for me has been just knuckling down and focusing on one thing at a time. By keeping myself on a set daily schedule, I hope to overcome my wandering and procrastination tendencies.
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