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Are You Bound Up In The Process Of Quitting But Finding It Difficult To Quit?

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎03-18-2013 07:26 PM

Don't let your mind get bogged down in fear and thinking the worst.

The worst rarely happens.

You are choosing to quit smoking not building a stairway to the moon.

There is a process. It's really quite simple.

There is also general timeline for what you will be going through that all the rest of us have been through or are going through or will be going through.

Learn about these things so you are not caught off guard.

Learn what will distract YOU.

Ask questions.

We can actually give you "gut" answers that are not from some "program" created by people who have never smoked.

We've been there.

We've got every T-shirt for every milestone we've passed

and

We are here to help you. We will take you right where you are at and give you what to need to succeed.

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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.