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So, If you put a smoker (with no cigarettes) and a nonsmoker in a room with a couch and two laptops

JonesCarpeDiem
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what do you imagine the smoker is going to be thinking about in a short while?

and 5 minutes later?

and 5 minutes after that?

and a minute after that?

and a second after that?

THE NAGGING DOESN'T END UNTIL THEY GET THEIR FIX.

 

Can you see how smoking disrupts your life?

this is all driven by the nicotine until there is none in your system then, you spend your time unlearning smoking but also , making memories without smoking.

The more memories you build that do not include smoking, the more you grow to think of yourself as a non-smoker. This is the path to disconnection from smoking.

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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.