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OK You made the decision

JonesCarpeDiem
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Don't play head games with yourself.

If you do you will give up and go right back.

Load up on the knowledge you need to get through a crave.

Realize they don't last long unless you dwell on them.

You need to distract yourself when you get one. This is called BM

Behavior Modification.

You do something else when you would have smoked until it becomes natural to do

when you are reminded to smoke

 

Try not to replace one bad thing with another.

you can change your mind without "rewarding" yourself with another bad habit.

Be good to yourselves.

Happy New Year

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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.