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Share your quitting journey

Once you've quit and realize how you served smoking and not it you, you can never look at it in the same way again

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎03-13-2014 07:52 AM

On Giving In.....On Going Back
Whenever you would consider smoking after you've quit whether 3 days or 20 years...
there needs to be a question you ask yourself.
Call it a safeguard

  

"Is smoking more important to me than not smoking?"
and then think about your quit journey and what you may be about to do.

  

Isn't going back to smoking giving up on yourself? Aren't you saying Screw life! Screw living! I Dont Care?

  

Wouldn't you be willingly putting it back in charge and living with whatever it deals you?

  

If you smoke again believe me, you will serve it

  

Stay Free

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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.