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Share your quitting journey

Statistically, many don't make it. will you? You Can!

JonesCarpeDiem
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you won't if you give yourselves ANY excuse to smoke.

We can't slap it out of your mouth your tie you up when you get a craving and

are ready to light up.

we can't make all the people who are just quitting succeed.

people will fall by the wayside. accept that.

all of us who have quit for years know we can't save everybody.

if we thought that, we would have gone crazy years ago.

if you let yourself down and we have time vested in your quit, it hurts us too

but, it hurts you alot more.

love yourself enough to be honest. there are no excuses to smoke. NONE

people who don't smoke don't have to make up excuses to somke when life hands them a turd.

you don't either!

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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.