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130 Days (4 MONTHS + or -) My Challenge To YOU

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎06-18-2011 12:37 PM

I CHALLENGE YOU NEW QUITTERS TO GO 4 MONTHS.

That may sound sound impossible right now but

you will reach a point when you are asking "how long is this going to take before I don't often think

of smoking or myself as a smoker?"

 

Well after 4 1/2 years on quit smoking sites this is my answer.

 

I can't tell you how many people send me a note after they reach this point and say

"I was so upset when you said it takes 4 months."

"It made me want to go 4 months just to prove you wrong.

But you were so right on"

 

Hey people

You smoked for a heck of a lot longer than 4 months.

Take The Challenge!!

The Gauntlet has been thrown down!!

 

This is your Life!!

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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.