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The Basics

JonesCarpeDiem
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Realize there will be changes being made. This is natural when we give up a daily addiction ..

Promise yourself that you will not smoke.

Do not keep an emergency pack. (what the hell is the emergency that is going to "make you" smoke?)

Learn as you go. There is no need to be fearful. Take control. If you won't, who's going to?

Find something else to do when you get a craving.

Let an ice,cube melt slowly in your mouth, bite into a lemon, laugh out loud. (GUARANTEED CRAVE BUSTERS)

You're going to be on a rollercoaster of emotions for 2-3 weeks. (Think of it as a bad cold on disorienting drugs)

Other "Dopamine Relief" comes in many forms. Laughing/Food/Sex/Chocolate/Exercise/Music smoking

At a month you're going to feel like you've "made it."

And you have. You've made it a month! WOO HOO!!

Now comes the part they don't highlight or barely mention on other sites.

THE NEXT 100 DAYS IS WHEN MOST PEOPLE LOSE THEIR QUIT

they get cocky and think they can have "just one."

130 Days

Promise yourself you will live 130 days from your last puff and just see if your head is not in a much better place than you imagined.

Positive side effects?

More when you need it.

Decreasement (new word) in slow suicide by tobacco assisted death.

The blinders come off. You see things for what they are.

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About the Author
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.