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Willpower VS Willingness

Willpower is fighting to stop from doing something you liked (or thought you liked) while still holding it in some esteem

Quitting with willpower is tough because you are still clinging to the thought that somehow smoking is good when you know it isn't. If you hit a big bump in the road you are likely to go back to what you left.

Willingness to quit

Willingness is letting it go, not fighting to let it go, but being willing to not fight to hold onto it so that you may have a new life without the chains of needing nicotine every hour or more.

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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.

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