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"Keep Them Away From Your Face"

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎05-17-2014 07:59 AM

This phrase came about when I realized how many people tended to complicate quitting smoking. I started telling people that instead of working so hard at quitting to just focus on keeping them away from your face.

Now this is a great way to shift peoples until they get to a certain point of unlearning smoking,  but, as long as thoughts of smoking are automatic, how can you be free?   Every memory you have is connected to smoking

The most difficult part of quitting smoking is to grasp you must unlearn the reaching for one and the hand to mouth and inhale motion as your response to feelings both emotional and physical. You must break that deepset pattern.

You must make new memories without smoking to replace the old ones and then you can be free.

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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.