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Pinpoint Your Reasons For Past Failures

JonesCarpeDiem
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Examine them closely, then, put them in a box.

You don't have to jump off a building twice to know it's gonna hurt.

When you quit smoking, you need to be always be looking ahead, planning your escape from a risky situation before it happens.

Example 1:

Someone who angers you backs you into a corner with another rediculous argument that no one can win.

Say, "You're pooping wrong and, I'm not smoking over it."

Example 2:

Your child is a screamer.

Get right in their face and whisper to them rather than shout back. It changes the whole dynamic of the moment.

Example 3:

Someone invited you out and you know there will be drinking. Have one drink and drink water the rest of the night.

You have the power to change the outcome before it becomes inevitablle,

You can do it.

Start changing the moment and you've learned new ways to cope without smoking..

No toilets were harmed in the commission of this blog post.

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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.