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Thought For A Saturday ....

JonesCarpeDiem
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NRT's should have been created to help you make it through until you've learned your tricks for coping with craves and distracting your mind from the thought of smoking when you get a crave to smoke.

Once you've learned that what other reason could there be for using them months longer?

Perhaps the creators of these programs and the drugs that go along with them have found out that people get cravings in months 2-3-4 and structured their programs to last that long?

Have they considered if you already knew how to beat the cravings when they came  the drug is no longer necessary EXCEPT FOR THE FACT they've kept you physically addicted with their program?

just something to ponder

LOL

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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.