Urges Or Memories?

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Will you ever forget you smoked?

When you see someone smoking? When you see a cigarette?When you smell a cigarette?

Maybe not BUT is that an urge OR a memory?

I say it's a memory.

What's the difference?

An urge in indicates you are wanting to participate. A memory is just that, a rememberance of smoking.

So, don't think just because you smoked you will have urges to smoke the rest of your life.

it ain't necessarily so!

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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.

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Urges Or Memories?

Not a crave or an urge, just a memory