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Share your quitting journey

for you new quitters.

JonesCarpeDiem
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make friends here. if you need support, you can lean on us and on each other. plus, it's a good idea to have people to call if the site is down

To See Who Is Onsite When You Are

you can right click on the members tab near the top of any page and choose open in another tab and then left click on active and choose open to see who of your friends is logged in. And your original window can remain open.

this way you can message them if you want to talk or ask a question and most likely get a response in closer to real time.

you can also see who's responding to what blogs over on the left about 1/3 of the way down. that also lets you see that a new blog has been started.

we are all here to help you.

remember, we are here because we choose to be. many of us will also respond to texts and phone calls. just pm any of us or write on our page if you need extra help.

i saw a texting club had been set up. we don't have a chat room here.

the first site i was on they had one but,                                    it moved so fast

it was hard to step in or out of it without feeling uncomfortable. plus, it was topic non specific and I never heard mention of smoking or not smoking there. lol

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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.