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Share your quitting journey

Anger? Fear? Disgust? Are they a solid footing for your forever quit?

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎04-04-2014 07:37 AM

Will anger keep you quit?

Will fear keep you quit?

Will disgust keep you quit?

We've all been angry at ourselves for smoking at one time or another but we smoothed it over by smoking.

We've all had people close to us suffer and die from smoking that has scared us. We smoothed that over by smoking.

We've all felt smaller than small having to hide somewhere in a public place to smoke, seeing the burns in our shirt, avoiding that kiss because we were afraid to offend but,  we smoked anyway.

So what is it that is going to set you up for your forever quit?

Willingness and acceptance to give quitting the time it takes to grab hold and overtake the thoughts of smoking that drive us to do it.

Give it the time it takes.

You are worth it. It gets better and better. Give it 130 days to build your new foundation and enjoy the ride.

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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.