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Share your quitting journey

This is an adventure

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎11-14-2012 04:07 PM

both good and bad things will happen on an adventure.

my daughter and her fiance are driving to their future today.

by quitting smoking you are heading to your new future.

i am going to miss my daughter. we have never lived more than 2 hours apart.

and it's a little scary that she's moving 1300 miles away.

It's scary to give up smoking when it's all you've known.

He got an offer from Microsoft that will most likely set them up through retirement.

She just completed her business degree.

Now that's the beginning of an adventure if you ask me! There is no sorrow.

 

There is no sorrow in quitting smoking either.

this is your chance to be who you were meant to be instead of thinking when you can have that next smoke.

This is your adventure. There is nothing negative about it.

keep this thought in your head. THIS IS MY ADVENTURE!

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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.