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Delay Yourself From Going To The Store (Tip Of The Day)

JonesCarpeDiem
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There are alot of steps involved in smoking that have become automatic. Or so we thought.

Break it down and beat your cravings!

Here are some ways to slow you down and help you regain your quitting senses.

First: Don't keep cigarettes around if you don't live with smokers.

Then:

1. Put your shoes in one place (tuck them behind the toilet)

2. Put your keys in another place (highest shelf in the kitchen cabinet)

3. Put your money in another place (under your computer so you come here before you leave)

Doing this gives you ways to slow the urge and make it dissipate.

The "automatic" steps it takes to smoke. See? It's really not so automatic.  Again, break it down. You can stop the process at any time except the last step.

1 Locating the pack and the lighter

2. Picking out a cig.

3. putting it in your mouth.

4. ~DANGER WILL ROBINSON~ lighting up and inhaling.

ONCE AGAIN>>>You can stop the process at any but the last step.

Smarten UP!

Use some common sense!

Don't make it easy to smoke!

(I never went to the store i bought my smokes ever again. Had i walked through the door, I know the owner would have slapped two packs on the counter. Why tempt fate people??)

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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.