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I was just on a video call with someone from the site (excuses, excuses)

JonesCarpeDiem
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They had quit but fell into some emotional quicksand and couldn't get back into the quitting frame of mind

 

they quit the end of the year and made it almost two weeks.

they had a week between one major event and starting another semester in school.

I told them "If you don't start your quit before you start back to school, you won't want to do it until

the whole semester is complete"

They kind of questioned me as to why I believed that and I said. "because our excuses to keep

smoking are usually logical to us. If they weren't, we wouldn't believe them.  And because you are starting the

semester smoking, you will not be able to give up the crutch until you are through the semester."

 

Killing yourself IS NOT LOGICAL. So why do we choose that over what we know as fact  in addition to just plain

common sense?

It's like saying I'm going to quit in 10 months, or by the time I'm 30, or whatever.

You won't do it until you quit putting it off.

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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.