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Did Smoking Really Make Your Life Allright?

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎03-18-2013 09:08 AM

you are going to find out alot about what is good and what is not so good in your life.

perhaps you are carrying 80 percent in your relationships. perhaps you just didn't want to face unhappiness or discomfort. it was just easier to light up and hide those feelings away. to keep the status quo at any cost.

be prepared for some big surprises.

finding the truth instead of smoking your life away is life changing and goes beyond your smoking or not smoking.

it's gonna take some time to make some changes for the better and those around you may not  understand where this is coming from.

be gentle on them. be gentle on yourself. every change takes some time but it's worth it.

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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.