Negative Conditioning About Difficulty Of Quitting

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Let it go!

Quitting is harder if that's what you think it's going to be.

This is truly a game and it's you against you.

Get on your side instead of fighting yourself.

Stop overthinking what could happen.

Take it as it comes.

Craves normally last no more than a minute.

Distract yourself.

It only takes seconds to put your left shoe on your right foot.

Or bite into a lemon

Or stick your head in the freezer and breathe in that cold air.

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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.

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Negative Conditioning About Difficulty Of Quitting