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Share your quitting journey

Ask questions...get the right answers...this ain't no party

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎02-12-2013 04:01 PM

i see it all over on people's pages.

advice from people saying, "i know you can do it. you are strong!"

blanket advice from people in the same boat as you (and i mean people who are at the same stage as you and just as succeptible as you? and they smoke the next day?)

support is telling people what they need to know and what they need to hear and preparing them for what they are going to experience. just how much do you think someone with the same limited experience is going to be able to do?

the smartest thing you new quitters can do is ask questions.

some of us actually have the right answers and know where your head has to be to quit.

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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.