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Share your quitting journey

"If you still want one - you're still vulnerable. Protect your quit!"

JonesCarpeDiem
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There will come a time when you don't think of smoking.

It will never come if you are fighting yourself from day one.

If you are constantly doubting yourself you are not only creating the agony, you are prolonging it.

Accept the fact that you have quit. Accept the fact that it will get better unless you smoke.

We all had thoughts of smoking when we first quit. It can't be denied when you've done something 20 times a day for 40 years. It takes time to not think of smoking. It takes time to unlearn and understand smoking is not required.

No one can give you that time except you.

It boils down to whether you let the temporary thoughts at the beginning overtake you or whether you will stick it out and believe in yourself until it goes away. It will go away.

You have to give it time.

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About the Author
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.