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Share your quitting journey

there was this point in each of our lives when we chose to smoke

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎12-11-2012 02:51 PM

you know, it could have gone either way. it was 50/50. we may have said no right then and never been smokers.

knowing what we know now, would any of us choose smoking if there was no nicotine in cigarettes?

once you learn what is necessary to keep your quit, after the first couple completions of the 4 seasons and all the triggers have been lived through without smoking, i believe you can disconnect completely from smoking and get back to that place before you made your first decision and smoked your first cigarette.

You-topia?

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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.