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I Like The News On One Particular Channel = I Can't Watch The News On Any Other Channel!

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎02-17-2011 08:52 AM

Do you see what we do? we decide we can't do something before

we've given it a unbiased attempt.

This thinking is exactly what defeats you when you "try" to quit smoking.

Of course you can get your news from other channels.

Its been so long since you’ve seen the news on any other channel

that you have no idea whether they’ve changed personnel or whatever it is you didn't like about it.

You decided you can only get your news from one channel and you decide it's just too hard to quit.

You will make that your reality until you change your mind

Give yourself a chance people.


You can do this if you can get around your old thinking

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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.