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Smoking Begins In Your Head Whether It's The Need For The Dopamine Release Smoking Creates

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎03-19-2012 12:39 PM

Thing is, those cigarettes don't jump in your mouth and light themselves.

There are a number of thoughts required before you can smoke.

1. Knowing where your cigarettes and lighter are.

2. choosing a location to smoke

3. Picking up the pack

4. Taking a cigarette out of the pack

5. Putting it in your mouth

6. lighting it and inhaling

You can change the outcome during any of the first 5 steps.


If you've quit, the easiest thing you can do is not keep any around.

There is no emergency of any kind that will require smoking so keeping some around for emergencies is a self defeating excuse and empowers what you DO NOT want to empower.

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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.