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What Is An Elder? And why do they think they know more than me?

JonesCarpeDiem
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An Elder is someone who has already quit, often for many years.

An elder spends a lot more time onsite than the average person.

This is no longer primarily about them but a passion to help others ditch this addiction.

This translates into uncountless hours learning, watching and filing away what we all go through,

not just our own quits.

We see the anguish and the despair that we have seen thousands of times.

When we do, there is something that clicks in our minds, something that helped someone in the past.

A concept, a word. a thought  that helped someone climb out of the pit.

 

It gives us great joy to help you

with

"Practical Answers For The Insane"

 

we love you all

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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.