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Quitting Smoking Makes Us Stop And Think

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎08-31-2012 06:51 AM

Ouch Ouch Ouch

Granted, in the beginning it's mainly about not smoking.

You may begin thinking maybe everything in your life isn't as groovy as you thought it to be when you smoked your way through.

no more autopilot.

This is where the rubber meets the road.

Were we so blind we couldn't see clearly because our desire for a cigarette often overshadowed all other thoughts and we didn't even realize it?

NOW is the wakeup call.

Quitting smoking is your chance to to work on making your life what  it could be.

Start turning that thinking about smoking or not smoking into positive thoughts of change and put them into action. Do fun things you liked when you were growing up or something you always wanted to do. Be kind to yourself and the ones around you. 

Make it count

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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.