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130 Days + or -........... What Does It Mean To A New Quitter?

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎05-10-2013 08:05 AM

130 days is the time period within which most new quitters give in and smoke.

They forget that they have had the power to say no after fighting quitting for a month or so and they give in.

If you are serious about quitting, set this as the next goal for yourself after that first month free.

You smoked a long time. It isn't over in a week or a month.

There are studies that back up the fact that people have harder craves in the 3 months after the first month quit than in the first month. Personally, I don't believe they're harder just totally unexpected.We are not talking 130 difficult days here. We are talking  2-3 days here and there during those three months after the first.

Promise yourself 130 days from your last puff and honor that promise.

Use the tools we teach you to distract your mind and you can get through

YOU CAN DO THIS!

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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.