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Laugh To Quit? This Is How I Quit Over 3 1/2 Years Ago. It Works!

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎06-25-2010 12:29 AM

First you must decide  you are quitting and get rid of the smokes and access to them

NOW, each and every time you want to light up, laugh.

youll be surprised how easy this is to learn and retain after you almost screw up a few times.

You may be like me saying stuff like "you stupid silly shi*"

you can laugh silently in elevators, restrooms & public places

lets say you would have smoked a pack a day. thats 20 x 7 days or 140 times in that week.

this retrains your mind to think before you light up.

 

after the first week you are through the worst week.

get through that initial week and relearn how to use your smoking time and you are over the hump.

stay on this site and read, read, read. Aztec, HWC, Peggy

Try it and report back. It really does work.

What have you got to lose except one week of your life understanding when and why you smoke?

I used 10 patches during the first 14 days to take the edge off and I've never looked back.

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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.