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The Secret Of EBAY and your quit are the same. PATIENCE

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎02-24-2012 12:36 PM

Since I moved, I realized how much stuff I have that I don't need any longer and don't have room for.

I had an old speaker. Huge and heavy and awkward and a certain brand.

(a friend gave it to me in 1978)

So i listed it for $1400 (high expectations) The reason was I saw just the speaker with no cabinet listed for $1200 alone and another auction for just the cabinets with no speakers for $1100 each. No Bites

Well I played around with it for 3 months or more lowering the price until I got it down to $450.

Still? No bites.

Well you'd think the smart thing would've been to keep lowering the price

until it sold but instead, I put the price back up to $750 and it sold right away..

If I had given in and kept lowering the price I would have screwed myself out of who knows how much?

It's the same with your quit.

HAVE PATIENCE~~~~DON'T SCREW YOURSELVES AND GIVE UP TOO EARLY.

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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.