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Share your quitting journey

aren't I entitled to 11 cigarettes?

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎02-20-2014 02:40 PM

This site says most people slip 11 times before they succeed at quitting smoking.

What kind of message does that send?   Why perpetuate this "allowance"?

How can the site imply that your body doesn't know you've been smoking?

You think this is what coaches tell athletes? that they're gonna lose?

The US and Canada womens teams are fighting for the gold medal right this moment.

The US was ahead most of the game and in the last 2 minutes of regulation play Canada came from behind and tied the game. UPDATE The US just LOST!

You know what the announcer said happened?

"The US team stopped playing to win and was just trying to hold onto their lead."

You better play to win people because it's your life that you're going to lose here no matter what this site says!

2606 days since my last puff. No a cigarette has never been near my lips since that day I 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.