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Share your quitting journey

can you remember back to childhood and the shadows you saw in your room at night?

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎01-20-2011 06:09 AM

we called the one that hid in the closet and under the bed the "so-so" and feared it many a night.

it took awhile but we finally grew out of those fears and came to the realization that we had created this in

our minds.

so what is keeping you smoking, the smo-smo?

would you have us believe it comes and jams a lit one in your mouth and squeezes you like an accordian

forcing you to smoke? 

so exactly what ungrounded fears keep you fearful of quitting?


it's just not that bad my friends


anyone can do it. its just a choice


dale

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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.