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There Is No Requirment That You Be Fearful Or Anxious To Quit!

JonesCarpeDiem
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You can choose to do that but it is not a required.

You will have some rough days in the beginning trying to shake the addiction

and then the habits of smoking.

You will feel "out of it". You know like something is missing or not right?

The memories of smoking are strong because of how long we smoked.

But, it is a process. After being on this and another site for 4 1/2 years an average of 10

hours a day listening and watching and helping,  I see it as a defineable process.

You begin to understand what is happening by learning and you must keep making the choice to not

smoke.  As you daily live without smoking you build new memories that don't include smoking.

After about 130 days you will not be thinking of you as a smoker anymore or of smoking but very rarely.

So give yourself that amount of time without giving up on yourselves.

 

Here Is The Timeline Of What You Can Expect

1st week toughest

second week better

third week a little better

4th week better

5th week You think you got it licked.

The next three months are the test because you will get urges out of nowhere and they can be strong

they can last an hour or a few days, but they are rare.

because they are so surprising is why they are dangerous. they aren't any stronger than anything you've

already experienced.

So

You smoked for a long time.

Give yourself 130 days without giving in and you will rarely think of smoking.

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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.