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At The End Of No Mans Land (120-130 days)

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎05-10-2011 09:18 PM

After 4 months or so, you have been through a major life issue or two and you learned you could get through

them without smoking.

You've worked through the daily triggers the first two months and the sneaky ones the last two months.

So here you are.

At this stage in your quit you should know in your gut  that smoking is not required to live your life.

You can now reach for a pack and laugh when you realize its just a  memory, a ghost pack.

there will still be some seasonal triggers you haven't experienced yet and maybe something tragic will

happen, but you've done the work and now..

 

You have to be true to yourself.    You have worked too hard to be free.

Nothing and no one can make you smoke....but, silly us...we still have free will

So we are right back at the beginning...The decision not to smoke.

But now, you have the power!!  You are in control!

And this is right where you want to be!!

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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.