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What is the habit?

JonesCarpeDiem
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what is the habit?

The memories of the reaching for one connected to an emotion of what we were feeling before. (Recreating a moment) and the repetition of the urge to get nicotine.

It all takes place over and over and over again and every single time starting with a thought.

So, when that thought comes... just say, "I don't do that anymore" and say it out loud.
There's power in what you tell yourself and hearing yourself say it.

You'll kick the habit in short order by talking yourself out of smoking,

Don't talk yourself into smoking

Talk yourself out of 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.