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what's it all about RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRalphie?

JonesCarpeDiem
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What does someone saying you'll never be free do for you?

Are you looking for strength (say from a higher power) to stop doing something that you allow to control you?

In the end, must you not discover the decision and strength have to come from within you?

Isn't it you that must decide and then continue to make the right choices?

Does this thing control you even when you aren't using it?

I would hate to think because I smoked for 40 years it controls anything but the health consequences I may incur. Why should it?

I have no desire to smoke cigarettes because I decided I wouldn't smoke anymore.

How many times does it take? It only needs to take one time.

Who can do it for you?

NOBODY

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About the Author
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.