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Smoking Surrogate? (The Truth)

JonesCarpeDiem
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Some people who quit and then slip/smoke would have you believe someone else did it to them.

Something or someone caused it.

Does some smoke fairy go to the store and buy that pack or sneak one from someone else's?

Does it shove one in your mouth, light it and squeeze you like an accordian, forcing you to smoke?

Highly doubtful. AND, there are no videos on youtube to support this claim.

SO IT CAN'T POSSIBLY BE REAL.

You can't blame something else if you smoke. Take responsibility. You chose to do it.

If you don't start the thought of smoking and let it grow you won't smoke. Stopping that thought is your responsibility. We can give you plenty of ways to distract yourself but you have to do them.

Those of us here with longer quits count our time quit from our last cigarette.

You are either smoking or you are not. there is no "one here and there"

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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.