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If feeling like you had a cold for three weeks was what quitting felt like, could you do it?

JonesCarpeDiem
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because most all the rest is what YOUR MIND is coming up with.

It's whatever you believe it to be people.

your fears, your apprehension. they don't have to enter into this. they are what make you panic and give in and you ruin your own quits.

they aren't necessarily real unless you make them real.

if you start thinking about a situation beforehand, and you decide how you are going to feel beforehand.

when you get into the situation you are unable to just let it unfold because of those pre-conceived ideas. you've already colored the direction of the outcome with that thinking.

we've all had a two-three week cold more than once and we know it will be over so we are uncomfortable but we accept it. thats how you need to look at this. there is an end to the initial discomfort.

so lets color the direction of the outcome positively and go into this with the best most open attitudes.

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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.