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the propensity for many is to eat to regain the loss of dopamine that smoking gave us

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎02-21-2014 03:27 PM

So you can still eat things and get a buzz. it's what you choose and portion control.

Instead of buying large packages of cookies and chips and eating till you hurl, get the individual packages that are portioned for people who aren't trying to quit smoking. There is no reasonable "quitting smokers size" A family size bag of chips is not acceptable as a "single serving".

A couple of examples:

1 jello cup 15-20 calories and not only a sweet but something you can put your teeth into.

Individually wrapped portions of say 3 cookies.

Portion control is very similar to willingly accepting you don't smoke any more.

ACCEPT THEIR PORTIONS! STOP THE FLOP!

LOLOL

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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.