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Come Here And Post HELP Before You Smoke

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎07-13-2013 01:45 PM

What good is coming here after you've smoked? You've already let yourself down.

FYI You don't let us down when you smoke, you let yourself down-My quit is my quit- I'm not smoking because you did-You are the one who picked it up, put it in your mouth, lit it and inhaled it-I have no control over that after it's done)

But, if you come here BEFORE you smoke and we can nearly always talk you down.

Being accountable after the fact is important but NOT NEARLY AS IMPORTANT

As being accountable to your quit. YOUR QUIT BEFORE YOU'VE SMOKED

It IsYour promise. Your Decision. BEFORE YOU SMOKE!

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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.