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Share your quitting journey

i know this is off topic but one of the things i love most about this site is

JonesCarpeDiem
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the people i meet here.

its much like the love you see going on here every day

i love to laugh and i find so much joy interacting with some of you whether in emails

or a phone call.

so i say, yes there are some weirdos online pretending they are someone they are not

but there are also people who can just be themselves and share the joy of living without

pretense and, i find that beauty in the internet. A freedom and a lack of judgement

that is refreshing and often lacking in 3d and a childlike playfulness that most of us gave

up at some point in our lives that is rekindled.

anyway, i'm not going to smoke over it. why would  I?

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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.