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Share your quitting journey

I know you all are mostly focused on your quits, as well you should be.

JonesCarpeDiem
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i kind of roam around the site.

i may click on members tab, and the first thing that comes up is all the

people who have signed up for the ex with the last person to sign up at the top

of the list.

some have pictures, some don't.

many of the usernames don't look like anything a human would use.

its like they are randomly generated. this is where i spot spammers.

i have never seen more than 40 people logged

in at one time and usually, its many of the same people. so, how can there be 430,000+

active members? it would seem like one hundredth of one thousandth of the members here have

ever been active. its been like this for the three years i've been here. can anyone enlighten me?

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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.