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To All Those Quitters Who Have Quit For A Week Or Two (Or Less) And Dissappeared

JonesCarpeDiem
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What are you doing, taking a smoke break?

Buying stock in big tobacco one pack at a time?

Paying with your life? Gambling on your future? Just plain give up on yourself?

There must have been some reason you wanted to quit?

Might it have had anything to do with not destroying your health?

If so, by not quitting you've done another (how many) years damage?

Why don't you do something good for yourself and get you butts back here and quit?

There are alot of positives to losing the master that controls your life and steals your breath.

Don't give up.

get mad. dig in. get through!

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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.