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The "Easy" Quit-You Don't Even Have To Want To-Just Decide And Its Very Doable

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎07-15-2011 01:50 PM

Why wait until your health is shot? 

It is what you make it.

I was a full time smoker for 40 years. I have been quit for over 4 1/2 years.

I never wanted to quit and I didn't have to quit for health reasons.

My best friend suggested it would be a good thing for me and asked me if I would consider it so that his

brother would be encouraged to quit.

So over the next month I considerd it and started saying "wait a little longer" between smokes.

it was self fulfilling. I was cutting down and after a few weeks, I was down to 1/3 a pack a day

I never limited myself to an amount per day, so I was never stressed out about it.

After about 3 1/2 weeks I knew I was buying my last pack.

Again, I smoked for 40 years FULL TIME.

So don't get stressed. Relax into it.

Decide and its very doable.

I learned to laugh when I craved.

So take the pressure off yourself. It will be what you make it.

This is the place to learn and do.

PS

I used 10 patches over my first 14 days  and stepped off.

This is called you controlling your quit, not, your quit controlling you.

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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.