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Forcing yourself to stop smoking for a certain amount of time may keep you quit for that amount of time

but

If you are not enjoying your progress as you quit and not genuinely noticing the positives in your physical being and mental attitude toward life in general, when your willpower runs out, so may your quit.

This is not about denial with willpower until you can't do it anymore, this is a lifestyle change.

Quitting smoking is not a negative. If all you think about is what you are giving up by not smoking, you may only remain quit for so long.

Smoking sucks! Haven't you noticed?

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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.

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