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Reality Check: Quitters Come And Go And Quit Buddies Succeed And Fail

JonesCarpeDiem
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The Good News

This blog is always open and someone is always here to buoy you up, give advice and answer your questions.

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We know the percentage of those who make it a year without smoking is about 6%. We must accept that not everyone will succeed or we would go nuts. We can't help everybody because each persons quit is ultimately in their control.

Many drop off the site because they choose to start smoking again.

If your quit buddy starts smoking again, will you let that be your excuse to smoke?

If your quit buddy dissappears for more than a week without any communication they probably started smoking again.

I notice many choose quit buddies with the same amount of time quit. this is all fine and good unless one of them smokes and then the person who didn't smoke's quit can be undermined.

Use common sense. Each of us at any stage of our quits can encourage and help another but, you don't go to college to be led by the other students. (at least I didn't. LOL)

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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.