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Twisted logic~~It's what makes people smoke

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎01-24-2014 08:38 AM

I went to the store for my favorite bacon (on sale)  last week and regular was all gone. I didn't want the maple flavored or the Cherry Koolaid flavor so I chose the thick sliced.

Isn't it funny that for some strange reason 1. thicker slice means more bacon and further, along that line of thinking, 2. might mean more bacon in the package. (We all know they aren't going to give you any more bacon by weight.)

What does this have to do with quitting smoking?

When you put your quit in risky situations that twisted logic may begin wooing you from the wings.

Don't let your mind go to number 2. (There is no more bacon in the package).

Use your common sense. Get up  and get out of the situation before you smoke.

Just walk away for 5 minutes. It will remind you that you are quit and that you want to protect it.

Common sense. It makes sense.

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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.