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What The Heck Is He Talking About?

JonesCarpeDiem
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This site is about relearning life without tobacco and the addiction to it.

When I am talking about the first 4 months, I am not speaking only of a length of time, I am talking about what you experience in those 4 months.

It's fairly easy to unlearn the daily habit after a month. It seems like hard work and it is if you only focus on quitting.

You are advised to get some distractions and release options going during the beginning of your quit. I used music, others use exercise. Main thing? CHANGE IT UP


OK, Now to the point of this blog;

day to day quitting isn't the same as something devastating like a death in the family, losing your job, etc. etc

Typically, a quitter will experience one thing catastrophic in the first 4 months that would have "forced" them to smoke.  The proof in the pudding is when you get through a couple of these events with a clean quit because you've undone your own belief there were just some things that required smoking. Things you just couldn't get through without a cigarette.

IT WAS ALL A MYTH PEOPLE

Non smokers do it every day

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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.