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Share your quitting journey

Have you ever made a promise to yourself about anything?

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎07-01-2014 01:36 PM

We have marriage vows, and civil oaths and swearing in at courts. These are obligations to truth we make to others or society to prove our loyalty or make us part of something.

  What about a promise to yourself?

Why do we find it easier to make promises to others but often unable to keep the ones we make to ourselves? Is it because there are no repercussions?

SMOKING HAS REPERCUSSIONS!

This promise about quitting smoking is the one you want to make and keep people.

If you make it and don't keep it you will just be spinning in the wind like an out of control kite again and again.

Make the promise     Use the tools.      Keep It!

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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.