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Did You Ever Think That Quitting Is Just Too Hard? Overwhelming? Impossible?

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎04-06-2010 11:02 AM

If thats what you believe, thats what will happen.

 

think differently, shake it up.

 

things will be new but your thinking must be new.

 

and by the way, this is what I learned the truth to be in the 3 1/2 years I haven't smoked.

I've been on smoking boards since 2 weeks after I quit.

I've heard everything. There is nothing new, just new people trying to quit.

 

Most people kill their own chances of quitting with their

preconceived notions based upon past failed attempts.

No one need fail. It is not a prerequisite to quitting.

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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.