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Share your quitting journey

Wing It? Why Not? You might get "lucky" and "hope" your way to a successful quit.

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎05-19-2011 10:11 AM

5% of people who try to quit smoking make it a year.

you might get "lucky" and be one of them

or

you might ask them how much "luck" had to do with thier success?

or

ask them how easy life was for them that made it possible for them to succeed?

obviously, they couldn't possibly have the same kind of problems in life that you have or

they could not have succeeded.


and, just why do people who have tried to quit smoking a "thousand" times fail?

do you think it might be because they keep doing the same thing expecting a different result?


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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.