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"75 days..............15 days, but not in a row" (and these people are supposedly users of their product)

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎03-17-2014 07:23 AM

If you are using an NRT, why would you NEED to smoke? If the nicotine dependency is being satisfied, doesn't this prove that the rest is a head game?

If you are ready to quit you do not need open the window to failing by giving yourself permission to smoke  before you even start. These messages of expected failure must be rejected by the mind of the successful quitter.

Only you can give yourself permission to smoke.

Realize that forgetting about something you did so many times isn't going to just go away in a week or a month. It takes time to unlearn that hand to mouth habit. It takes time to mentally disconnect from thinking of smoking many times a day, every day.

It is a decision, then, It is a mind game but, most of all,  It is a process.

Don't give up. Quitting won't kill you, SMOKING WILL

Why go through it over and over? You don't learn anything quitting over and over except how to give in.

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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.