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Share your quitting journey

If you are going to pass out advice on quitting? Make sure it's sound,

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎12-19-2010 08:16 AM

WEAN TO ZERO TO QUIT?

Cutting down from a certain amount a day to 0 a day is like torture because?

Those first three days without nicotine are the hardest part of quitting the physical part of this addiction.

The nicotine receptors you created in your brain by smoking want want want, need need need.

non smokers never had them because? THEY NEVER SMOKED

So what you are doing is starving them a lot  longer than just the three days.

this is called torture in perpetuity. Most people trying to quit can NOT withstand this long term agony and just

START SMOKING AGAIN and FORGET ABOUT 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.