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To You New Years Quitters: How many of your New Years Resolutions have ever lasted?

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎11-27-2012 01:04 PM

I quit the day AFTER new years so it would not be a resolution that got tossed in the ashtray.

I quit on a Tuesday, the day after New Years, 2007.

I hadn't set a quit  date ahead because I didn't even know if i was going to quit.

I bought my last pack the Friday before and I knew in my gut it was my last pack. It was then I decided that a new years resoution spelled doom for me and I decided on the day after.

some new years quitters have probably stayed quit but if they did, it probably wasn't from luck or a New Years Resolution so,  you need to start preparing now.

You need to start changing your thinking about smoking before you quit, or, you will most likely fail.

start stepping back and watching yourself smoke in your minds eye as you see it.

Then, go watch yourself smoking in a mirror.

It will totally change your thinking about your "not thinking" what you are doing to yourself because smoking becomes automatic. we do it because we have to to remain comfortable.

learn what makes your desire to smoke tick.

the more you know the better

 

thanks for the reminder break

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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.