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The Realization

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎06-02-2013 08:34 AM

I didn't know there were quit smoking websites when i quit.

I bought the patch about 3 hours after my last cigarette. Yes i was getting physically antsy. lol

Here's the kicker

The third day of my quit, i realized smoking was only a decision and I didn't have to choose it.

It was such a simple realization, I laughed out loud.

when I laughed out loud, i felt better. From then on, when I got a craving, I laughed

I used the patch over the first two weeks of my quit and during that time I learned my triggers.

i forgot to wear a patch my 4th day. I knew I could go home and get one so i didn't panic.

the next day my body told me i needed wear one.

the last couple days of my first two weeks quit i forgot to wear the patch again and i had a little mind and body pow wow and knew i didn't need the patch anymore.

I found a quit smoking website at the end of my first rwo weeks and spent my first year there, learning everything I could from the elders.

listen to your mind and body when you quit, not the addict.

be determined.

it's only a decision to smoke.

unchoose it!

I'm wishing each of you success in your quit

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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.