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Share your quitting journey

is it the addict talking?

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎12-06-2012 07:29 AM

I'm not too understanding of people who call themselves addicts.

To me that's saying you have no control over yourself.

What good does it do to say something is in control of you when you aren't even using it?

I smoked for 40 years and I don't consider myself an addict.

I choose to not smoke. what could be simpler?

I believe this "addict"  thinking is part of the whole brainwashing that it is so difficult to quit smoking or anything that triggers a dopamine release or dulls reality.

I believe you can overcome many negative limitations if you take control of your negative thinking and just kick it out of your head.

Quit defeating yourself.

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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.