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The Truth

JonesCarpeDiem
0 7 4

You gotta have it to succeed.

Someone just wrote a blog about how they had been quit for 7 months

and started back.

I asked them if they had not had even one puff during that time.

 

I don't know the answer yet and it only matters to that person but,

if you have one here and there you are smoking.

You are either smoking or you are not. There is no in between.

Every time you have one you make it harder to quit the next time because

you allowed yourself to give in.

It becomes a huge chink in your armor because you gave yourself permission

to have one and brushed it off like one didn't matter.

It does matter because you are the only one who can do this

Be honest or fail

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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.