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Overtaken And Controlled By The "Cure"

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎03-08-2014 08:21 AM

To be free everyone eventually has to experience some discomfort. Everyone has to do some missing of smoking and get past that.

Everyone who is self dosing with the NRT: (Gum, Lozenge, E-Cig. Etc..)

Don't use more than the equivalent to what you were smoking to avoid these basic feelings of quitting.

You will more than likely become not only physically addicted to it but psycologically addicted as well.This means fear of getting off of it because you believe it's what has kept your quit.

If you are using 10 pieces of 4mg gum, that is equal to 2 packs of cigarettes. Did you smoke two packs a day?

You don't want to end up trading one nicotine delivery system for another.

Experience the uncomfortableness. We all had to do it. It will pass.

Experience the "something is missing". We all had to go through this. It will pass.

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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.