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A Perspective On The E-Cig And YOUR Freedom

JonesCarpeDiem
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The best thing you're gonna find out about quitting smoking is the freedom from the slavery to nicotine.

Or will you?

Perhaps not if you've chosen to use the ecig.

Have you ever looked in the mirror while you're sucking on that ecig? Do you like what you see?
What message are you putting out there? Will you continue to show everyone around you you're an addict?
Are you inadvertently teaching your grandchildren they need to have nicotine to get by in life?
E-Cigs are going to cost about the same as smoking did, so, you're still going to be throwing your finances away.

It’s a win-lose situation. You stop putting cigarette smoke in your lungs but absolutely nothing else has changed. You still NEED to have your drug every time you would have smoked. You're still throwing your money away. You’ve never unlearned the motions of smoking. (putting it in your mouth and inhaling) so what’s going to keep you from going back to smoking when you realize you got a better feeling (and FASTER) from a real cigarette than you can from the e-cig?

The E-Cig………..What kind of freedom is it?

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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.