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Share your quitting journey

I got sitemails this morning from people who started back smoking.

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎03-28-2012 10:04 AM

We are not here to judge you so don't ever feel you can't be honest with us.

This is your life here and we want to get you back on track.


Just remember these two things.

Alcohol is a quit killer. Limit yourself to one drink when there is any chance of being around a cigarette.

Stress is life. That does not change whether you smoke or not. Smoking will take a toll on your health.

Build faith in your quit daily by making it another day and promise yourself 4 full months in a row without smoking.

The longer you delay restarting your quit, The easier it is not to.

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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.