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So after over 6 years on quit smoking sites, I don't see a whole lot of variables

JonesCarpeDiem
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1. you "try" and fail and keep smoking for who knows how long?

2. you plan and "try" again and you smoke but you figure out what happened and try again.

3. you trade smoking for a different kind of nicotine addiction and never get off the nrt's.

4. you plan, you get your head in a "believing you can do it" place where there is no choice to smoke and you quit.

which one will it be?

You can go from number two to number 4 or YOU CAN GO STRAIGHT TO NUMBER 4

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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.