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New Quitters~See If You Can Get Your Head Around This

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎08-07-2012 12:57 PM

Get a plan together.

If you have failed before? Figure out why. Nothing changes unless you approach it differently

It's best to know a little about what you are up against, yes? You wouldn't bungee jump off a bridge without the bungee cord would you?

Quitting doesn't just happen. Make yourself active. Think about what you are doing every step of the way.

When you approach a trigger, don't dwell on it, change your thought. And do it quickly.

You must have a true belief you can do it.

We've already done it, you can too. There were those ahead of us who showed us the way.

We are not any smarter than you but, we have already been there and we can show you how to do this.

https://excommunity.becomeanex.org/blogs/jonescarp.aka.dale.Jan_2007-blog/2011/06/26/what-to-expect-...

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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.