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Share your quitting journey

What is the the most powerful part of your quit?

JonesCarpeDiem
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If you didn't say you, you don't understand.

People take themselves back to smoking in one of two ways.

1.  They talk themselves into it

(It's just as easy to talk yourself out of smoking as it is to talk yourself into it-Say "I don't do that anymore" instead of "I'd really like a cigarette")

or

2.  They drink until they are past the tipping point.

(Stay away from alcohol for awhile. Do not drink where there are cigarettes accessible-Limit your drinking of alcohol when you are out and have water)

Nothing can make you smoke except you.

Keep it real. Stop EXcusing yourself.

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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.