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Share your quitting journey

one way to get out of this whole mess

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎02-10-2012 12:21 AM

you start by saying 'I'm gonna wait on that next one"

you will shortly notice you are not buying packs so often

that makes you say, "Wow, I'm only smoking a fourth of what I was smoking a few weeks ago"

all of a sudden you know.

your mind and body say

Let's Go

and

you are off on the adventure of a lifetime.

that smoking mindset has changed. it had to.

things have to change to change.

break that routine. sit in a different chair.

read instead of tv

change your snack

BUT, each time you crave a smoke, you say, "oh yeah, i'm not going to."

because that's where you have to stop the thought process,

before you start dwelling on one and your mind starts planning the time and the place.

just one way to get out of the prison of smoking

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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.