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Share your quitting journey

"you can wallow in misery" but many, if not most of you, could "step around it"

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎07-30-2012 05:16 PM

there is a nuts and bolts to quitting.

it is a process.

i know many new people think it has to be an individual "suffering thing"

but we were brainwashed

it doesn't have to be that.

yes there is a letting go. you will miss it because you did it for a long time but

it isn't gonna kill you to stop smoking.  it's gonna kill you to keep going.

ok, show of hands of all those who want to wallow in misery?

ok, now all those who want to step around it?

please go read the link on my page just below the badgefitti called "what to expect in the first 4 months"

it's your roadmap. its the things we all experience in pretty much chronological order.

The only thing you need is the belief you can do it.

can you do it? will you do it?

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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.