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You Can't Smoke If You Don't Have Any Around

JonesCarpeDiem
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Use some common sense. Make it difficult to fail, not easy.

Having to get up, find your keys, walk to the car, unlock the door, get in, put the key in the ignition, back out of the driveway at 75, turn to look at the car you ran into, leave the scene of an accident, race to the mini mart running red lights and evading the police, open their door, push three people out of line, throw your $20 on the counter screaming, GIVE ME MY CIGARETTES, and get handcuffed as you leave the store with the helicopter circling overhead?...Each of those is a moment you could have caught yourself and said "I don't do that anymore"

Now, you're back in smokers jail.

So why would you keep them around? You are setting yourself up for the easy way OUT OF YOUR QUIT.

There is no such thing as an emergency pack because there is no emergency that requires smoking.

**If you live with a smoker, part of your decision and commitment must be not thinking their smoking materials ARE YOUR SMOKING MATERIALS.

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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.