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Share your quitting journey

thanks for the well wishes and the birthday wishes. they'll be coming to get me soon

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎05-31-2012 08:09 AM

i had a great time with my friend who stopped by yesterday whom i hadn't seen in 45 years.

my brother Ken came by last night and said that hoggie hasn't stopped crying since i left so, i am very anxious to get home today.

regarding my birthday, Jessie is coming down tomorrow for a day or two. there are 8 of us who have birthdays within a two week period so we will celebrate all of them tomorrow.

am i too old?  yes for some things.

when I went to the dr Tuesday, i had lost 16 pounds in 4 days. i don't recommend the way i did it so i won't explain how.

be good to yourselves. smoking never fixed anything.

dale

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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.