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TIP FOR TODAY-SIMPLE THINGS- change it up to keep your goal in sight!

JonesCarpeDiem
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the simplest things can throw off the thoughts of smoking.

make a point of doing things differently.

drink water or whatever with the opposite hand from what you would normally use.

all you have to do is show your mind things are different for a few moments to get through

 

laugh out loud when you crave

put vicks under your nose when you have to be around smokers

bite into a lemon skin and all

let an ice cube melt in your mouth

stick your head in the freezer door for 15 seconds and breathe deeply

go outside and close your eyes and feel nature on your face

breathe deeply

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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.