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Share your quitting journey

To The Vaper

JonesCarpeDiem
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Did you ever stop to realize that when you use nicotine, the need to use it again comes from the fact that you used it in the first place?

How do you expect to ever break the cycle and become free?

Oh, ok. You don't care that something controls you, that you are just being used by a substance and don't choose to use it but you must use it.

Not everyone wants their life controlled by their need for nicotine. That's why most of us are here.

Smoking is the nasty part but the nicotine is what keeps you coming back for more.

Vapers are people looking for an easy way out.

Have you ever gotten your head around the idea that quitting not only smoking but also nicotine might be good for you and let that revelation push you forward or did you only focus on the difficulty and the boo hoo?

PS

Those purple ecigs surely are beautiful. I would really like to have them sitting on every available surface in my house. Maybe I could build a shrine? Maybe a bunch of shrines?

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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.