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Do You Know Why Only A Handful Out Of Every Hundred Make It Through A Whole Year?

JonesCarpeDiem
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It's because quitting takes time.

People start out and make it a week, and then 2.  By the time they get through a month, they think it's over.

It ain't over folks.

Everyone thinks they are "different"

In this quitting thing, we all must go through the same things in approximately the same time frame.

How do I know this you ask?

Because I've been quit over 5 years and spent 15,000 hours on this and another site watching people succeed and fail at this and trying to get the 94% who aren't gonna make that 1st year back on track.

If you are not willing to promise yourself 130 days without smoking? You may as well keep on smoking because thats the minimum commitment you need to make this happen.

You smoked a heck of a lot longer than 4 months and 10 days.

You need to get through an emotional catastrophe or two without smoking to know you can.

So, you say you still want to quit?

Give yourself 130 days from your last puff and then tell me I was wrong.

I challenge you to challenge yourself.

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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.