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NRT'S WON'T QUIT SMOKING FOR YOU

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎07-24-2012 08:54 AM

some people think substituting nrt's is going to take care of all their desire to smoke and make them a non smoker.

it doesn't happen that way.

Nrt's should be used as a tool to take the edge off while you unlearn the daily habits and memories that drive your smoking.

the addiction part is easier to break than than habit part. you can take nrts till you're blue in the face but that will not unlearn the memories of smoking

SO, again, use the nrts to take the edge off while you unlearn the habit parts of smoking. Focus on that, then, step off the nrts as soon as you feel comfortable.

Please allow yourself 130 days from your last puff to be free of dwelling on smoking even it rarely crossing your mind. Do not give up before you give yourself a fair chance

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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.