Turn it around

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Yes, the first 2-3 weeks are somewhat miserable for each of us. Don't magnify it. Look at it like a bad head cold, It's frustrating to be sick with anything.

Turn it around. Instead of blaming this misery on your quit, blame it on smoking.

It will get easier and easier if you stick with it.

Keep unlearning the hand to mouth. You have to break that thought pattern of reaching for a cigarette.

Continue to change things up. Small changes that keep you aware you are doing something positive will get you through.

As smokers we never even knew we were controlled. As you're quit goes on and you distance yourself from smoking I promise you will see it.

Onward to 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.

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