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All You People Who Are Just Beginning This Journey~~Promise Yourself 4 Months From Your Last Puff

JonesCarpeDiem
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I cannot stress enough how important allowing yourself this amount of time relearning life without smoking is.

 

Timeline Of What You Will Experience

The first 2 weeks are the worst.

Third week gets a little easier and most of the spaciness begins to go away.

At a month, you think you have succeeded.

The next three months are when most people fail.

Did you hear that? This is not bullshit.

Only 7 in 100 make it that whole first year.

You gotta make that first 4 months before you can make a year, yes?

One does not come without the other.

Remember this.

There is nothing more important. Give yourself this much time.

We want you to succeed!

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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.