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Share your quitting journey

Is slipping practice for success or practice for failure?

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎03-21-2014 06:02 AM

Once you've given yourself permission to smoke once during your quit, you will probably do it again.

This is why we stress understanding what you are up against.

Each failed quit makes it harder to quit the next time.

The following link is the accumulated knowledge of 22,000 hours spent watching people going through the quitting process. Many fail simply because they are unwilling to give quitting the time it takes or because they begrudge quitting rather than embrace it.

I sincerely hope you will read it, understand it and have faith in yourself.

Giving in is giving up. Don't give in. It's gonna take the time it takes.

Give yourself the time

https://excommunity.becomeanex.org/blogs/jonescarp.aka.dale.Jan_2007-blog/2011/06/26/what-to-expect-...

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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.