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precede, precedent

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎08-09-2012 12:26 PM

so

what precedes smoking after you've quit?

well, first the thought comes into your head (doesn't matter from where)

then you have to decide whether you will act on it.

does that involve going to the store to buy cigarettes? that takes some time. time in which you could have diverted your thoughts of smoking.

asking somebody for one? it doesn't really matter how you get them either.

you've suffered and sacrificed by choosing life over smoking haven't you?

how long has it been? weeks? months? years?

it's kinda hard to forget you don't smoke after years

so,  what it really comes down to (no matter how long you have not smoked) is, will you give yourself permission?  and if you do will this set a precedent for the future?

nothing and no one makes us smoke.

if you don't smoke, you have avoided setting yourself up for the next time.

is smoking worth going through quitting all over again?

http://smokersblog.org/2010/05/why-i-slipped-twice-and-started-smoking-again/

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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.