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QUITTING SMOKING IS FACING YOURSELF

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎02-12-2009 04:47 PM
and very possibly some parts of yourself hidden

"Throw back the lid of the old leather trunk, brush all the cobwebs away

Until you do you can never be true to the person you never met

Take all the pain that would drive you insane, the bad memories festering there,

Tie it all up with the strength of your will, Carry it all down the stairs"


I see plenty of anger on this site, and some rage too.


We all carry the dark and the light.

Smoking won't change that one way or the other.

Accept the rage for what it is Like you saw smoking for what it is. amd start mellowing out that part of you.

These are huge things we find out about us when we quit but, not insurmountable.

Its a process

Keep The Faith

dale
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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.