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The ecig is for those who want to continue smoking

JonesCarpeDiem
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See, as long as you "need" something it will be the most important thing in your life.

You will place it above everything including honesty, anyone in your life, even your spouse, pets and kids.

Don't you get it?

It will control your life just as much as smoking did. (Oh, you haven't figured out that smoking ran your whole waking day yet?) (that if you were in a conversation with someone and the need to have a cigarette came up, you didn't hear a word they said?) (That you had to go find someplace to do it? and still will even with an ecig)

That is not freedom.

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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.