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Share your quitting journey

You can really never realize how much smoking controlled you until you step away from it and are free.

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎05-12-2014 07:27 AM

We let it run our lives and are/were oblivious.
I used to leave my family sitting in a restaurant to go outside while the check was being prepared so I could have a cigarette.
I used to go outside during my daughters plays to have a cigarette.
I used to go outside immediately after leading the worship team for 45 minutes to have a cigarette and not come back in (because I smelled like smoke) until it was time to close the service.
Every precious moment and important memory that might have been but was missed to go have that smoke ARE GONE FOREVER.

My family will not watch me sputter and choke while begging for a cigarette when I leave the planet. How about yours?

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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.