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Share your quitting journey

It's Saturday.. Am I Really Doing This? Well Are You?

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎01-22-2011 08:47 AM

Are you committed to being a non smoker?

Have you planned for it?

Do you know how you will defeat the cravings to smoke?

Do you have any offsite support?

Do you have friends here who can support you if the site goes down?

(exchange  phone numbers and  personal email

There is no excuse to fail.  Only you can allow yourself to smoke.

There is no one nor anything else that force you backwards.

Get a positive attitude, this is a positive thing you are doing.

If smoking wasn't a bad thing, you wouldn't be knowing you should stop.

Don't give up. thats what RJReynolds, etc want.

Stop Being A Slave, Don't Cave.

dale

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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.