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I believe people are different (did you notice I said people?)

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎06-25-2011 02:36 PM

I believe we all have crisis and tribulation about as equally as one another

Perhaps with different timing in our lives.

So are we going to guess when life will be just right to quit? That might not ever happen.

People die, people cheat on their spouses. People lose jobs, their comfort zone, their security, even

themselves.

If you believe your trials are worse than everyone else you may possibly be providing yourself with future

excuses.     A chink in your armor is how I describe it.

 

This may not be apparent at the time,  but it may build during your quit  and surface and collapse it.

 

You cannot let your circumstances affect your mindset about quitting.

What Are You Waiting For?

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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.