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Keep Going! Don't Short Yourself! You Can Quit Smoking!

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎08-25-2012 07:50 PM

Keep going

learn about the addiction. learn what to do when you get a crave.

There is absolutely no excuse for being overwhelmed if you keep control.

You have that power. You have that choice.

Keep going

"hold it!" "I gotta have one more" does not have to be you!

on a side note

Remember Phil Harris? Jimmy Durante?

We were on the same bill with them at the Frontier Hotel in Vegas late 60's

Phil used to sing that song "smoke smoke  smoke that cigarette" in his set every night.

that was his trademark song. a song about smoking. LOL.

Boy, if we knew then huh?

Just remember, you can't fail if you stick with it!

Keep going!

Give yourself 130 days without a puff!

https://excommunity.becomeanex.org/blogs/jonescarp.aka.dale.Jan_2007-blog/2011/06/26/what-to-expect-...

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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.