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Share your quitting journey

Since we have some 9 month experts with every badge you can "earn"?

JonesCarpeDiem
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something just aint right.

who thought up this idea?  and who's monitoring it?

Is it a popularity contest? I've seen posts with people proclaiming on someomes message board 

"if you want to be an expert, I'll put in a nomination for you"  WTF is that?

Good luck to those experts with 9 months or less.

I'm handing over my responsibilities to you.

I'm sorry you don't get the knowledge that goes with it.

I hope you are in the 6% and still quit when your first year rolls around.

And to the creators of all the angst who have totally screwed this site with bad ideas?

I don't even have a good luck for you.

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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.