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130 days/17 weeks (There Is Hope!)

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎08-17-2010 12:28 PM

people  constantly wonder when it will get better.

when they won't think about smoking.

when you just forget you were a smoker and live life.

i feel you have a good shot when you pass 16 or 17 weeks.

thats what happened for me.

i read on a medical site that 16 weeks was sort of a "graduation" for your body in the quitting process

and it so corresponded with my time of mental freedom.

so many have come back to me at that time in their quits and said "you were right"

i believe it is a magical time

so, lose the negativity, strive for it and see for yourself.

quitting is a chore but the freedom wonderful

 

dale

1323 days

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About the Author
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.