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Delaying. A Great Way To Feel What It's Like Before You Quit So You Can Work On Dealing With It

JonesCarpeDiem
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Quitting smoking is much more bearable if you experience what a crave feels like before you actually quit.

I'm not much for weaning from a pack (or whatever you smoked a day)  to nothing. At the end it becomes more like torture than teaching. You may start focusing on what you are missing. Once you get below 5 cigarettes a day, you are most likely in withdrawal. So, ease into it. Get some control before you actually quit.

I spent 4 weeks considering quitting. During that time, I delayed when i wanted to smoke

BUT, NEVER TO THE POINT OF STRESS OR ANXIETY.

By the 4th week I was going 4 hours and more without a cigarette without stress or anxiety.

So when I bought my last pack on that Friday, I decided I would quit the next Tuesday, the day AFTER new years. (No failed new years resolution bs for me)

Start changing your smoking habits before you quit rather than saving everything for the day you quit and then being anxious getting overwhelmed about what's going to happen or hitting your quit date.

You wouldn't bungee off a bridge without the bungee would you?

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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.