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Share your quitting journey

If you have prepared to the point of feeling you are ready to quit....

JonesCarpeDiem
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Quit.

And if you smoke?

Don't keep smoking. Start your quit again as soon as possible.

Don't unfocus yourself by sitting around thinking what a failure you are. it will weaken your resolve. Again, this quitting and then smoking thing is a bad thing to repeat with much time in between.

Once you start and fail you need to get mad at yourself and start again so you don't have to find the quitting mindset again.

Come On! Lets Go!

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.