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Share your quitting journey

Not for the timid

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎02-23-2014 12:35 PM

So I was sitting out in the yard just now waiting for Hoggie to come home from his morning ramble and I reached up to scratch my neck at the line of my t- shirt. As I was there I felt a hair. It seemed quite long so I pulled it.
Well, it was pure white, well over 4 inches and, being so spectacularly long, I wondered if it was my "life-hair" and, if I had just “pulled the plug”
For you who may still be smoking
The conditions in your body can be just right so that one cigarette can trigger a stroke or heart attack.
The one you have between your lips this very second might be your smoke-hair, that hair trigger that sets off a disheartening life changing chain of events.

Is that the way you want to go?
Are you prepared to leave everything behind for that 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.