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Share your quitting journey

You Are Not Excused!!!

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎06-21-2010 09:24 AM

When I see that someone has posted that they have started smoking again

after they have quit for more than 50 days, it really concerns me.

What kind of message does this send to the people who have just quit?

Who does it help?

When I see people state that nobody can quit the first time, who does that help?

I quit the first time, I smoked 40 years. There are others. It is very possible.

Stop spreading lies, weakness and giving people excuses..

If you haven't kept your quit, talk to people privately, don't put it on the main board for

someone new to become even more discouraged. You chose to smoke again. There is no good excuse.

You screwed up! Don't need to tell that to the people who are here for the first day.

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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.