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The shine may wear off your quit at about 30 days

JonesCarpeDiem
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After most people make it 30 days, the shinyness of quitting is wearing off. In fact, you're darn tired of thinking about quitting.
You are entering the period where most quitters falter and fail. by 1 month you've experienced the worst of the cravings.

It will never get worse than what you've experienced in the first 30 days but the habit tries to blindside you with cravings and memories out of nowhere. Just know what I am saying is true and be especially aware through day 130 or 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.