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Share your quitting journey

Change Your Thinking, Relearn & LIVE

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎10-24-2010 10:07 AM

You don't need that smoke with your coffee or after dinner.

you don't need that smoke when you've been in a car accident.

ETC....

We brainwashed ourselves with this "i need one now" thinking.

the only way to successfully quit is to start realizing that what you think of smoking

when you smoke and why you smoke was a learned process with you finally smoking aimlessly.

you might actually enjoy one or two cigarettes of all the ones you smoke in a day but what about

the other 18-22?

Think about it. Start restructuring and keep it up.

You can be an ex smoker in 4 months.

So how many years did you smoke?

Doesn't 4 months seem a small price to free yourself of this addiction?

Keep them away from your face

dale

40 years of living up in smoke.

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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.