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Are You Still Delegated To The "Smoker's World"?

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎01-27-2013 12:20 PM

finding shelter when it rains so you can keep it lit?

Hovering in doorways in the freezing cold? (can't hang out and smoke nearly anyplace in california)

Finding a place to smoke where those who come late to church don't see you when they drive up?

Outside the restaurant while the check is being tallied?

Missing your sons home run so you could go out in the parking lot to have one?

Does any of this ring a bell?????

YOU ARE AN ADDICT AND THEREFORE DELEGATED TO COWER WHEREVER YOU CAN TO GET YOUR DRUG UNTIL YOU CHOOSE TO STOP SMOKING.

.....................and it's getting harder and harder to find a place

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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.