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Share your quitting journey

We Are Here To Encourage You To Not Give Up On Yourself!

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎05-15-2013 06:01 PM

As a smoker, we did whatever was necessary to have that smoke. That meant missing many important moments we can never get back

This is your time to rediscover  the "times of your life moments" that tobacco steals from you.

It takes around 130 days from your last puff and learning to live without smoking to understand you didn't give up something good.

Actually, in quitting smoking, you've gained a life of freedom that isn't going drag you to a parking lot to smoke while your daughter is winning her swimming race or your son is hitting a home run, or you are too antsy to sit through church, OR OR OR...

Stick with your quit and you will find this freedom to live life to the fullest!

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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.