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Share your quitting journey

I tell people they have to go 130 days from their last puff to unlearn the habit but how long from your last nicotine fix?

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎10-03-2012 10:29 AM

i can't tell you definitively but, my feeling is if you light up your brain with nicotine that whole period of time, you certainly aren't doing anything to separate from nicotine dependence.

of course you know that a cigarette has been determined to be the "best" nicotine delivery system.

so, my question is,

is it just a matter of time before the person who has never removed the nicotine addiction goes back to smoking for the better delivery system?

Again, i am unable to prove it is but, common sense would seem to say nicotine addict would be more prone to go back to smoking than one who had distanced themself from nicotine.

My suggestion is don't be a nic-needer indefinitely

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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.