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forced quitting and "they think I should therefore, I think I should" quits

JonesCarpeDiem
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they may be good short term. But long term, maybe not so much.

i call these white knuckle quits.

your dr or dentist tells you to quit (forced)

Or perhaps people close to you are making suggestions to get you to quit.

Well.....you know its bad and think you should quit but until it's your idea, you may begrudge it when times get tough.

If you quit with a chip on your shoulder, your quit isn't worth a chit.

if you continue to look at smoking as something good, quit isn't worth a chit.

oh you may make it 6 months or a year but until you find the joy in not smoking, until you feel the freedom from needing to do it, you wll probably go back to it.

as long as smoking means something to you, your quit isn't worth a chit.

quitting is gaining not losing. find the joy in it.

find the joy in it

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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.