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Share your quitting journey

once you get into the swing of quitting, you'll find it's bearable

JonesCarpeDiem
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just don't get overwhelmed. only you can let you get overwhelmed.

when you feel the urge coming on, step back, take a look. there's no one standing over you with an axe.

most of us make it much worse than it needs to be by building it up in our heads and not letting go.

you aren't fighting anyone. it's a drug.

you are giving up dependence on a drug and learning that you don't need it.

we've covered up for so long with smoking, we don't know ourselves anymore.

we've lost who we wanted to be by letting smoking be our savior.

take it back. be that person you were meant to be. it's never too late.

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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.