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Don't Say "It's Not My Time"

JonesCarpeDiem
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  i smoked daily for 40 years, sometimes over 2 packs a day
  Now, when I add up my unsmoked cigarettes for the bonfires i count them as a pack a day because thats where 40 years ended up.
   
  What i've learned in my 7 1/2 year quit  is, there is no good excuse to smoke. You could shoot yourself in the foot and get the same kick and it would last even longer as you drifted into shock. 
 
  Your  dog isn't going to die because you quit smoking. You won't lose your job because you quit smoking. Your grandma isn't going to pass because you quit smoking. Life simply does not require smoking.
  you can let it go any time.
   
  The only way you can lose at quitting smoking is by shooting yourself in the foot with negative thinking
  I don't support excuses because as I said, there is no good excuse for smoking
   
  Put your guns away, Be honest with yourself and stick it out.
  The time required to unlearn the automatic reaching for one 20 times a day is the quit keeper.

give it time

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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.