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No Mans Land (in pictures)

JonesCarpeDiem
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Once upon a quit.....

This is the time period  I always lose my quit. It looks as formidable as ever!

The first week wasn't terrible. I  had  some moments but,  during my first month, I learned to brush off the urges.

I feel a bad day coming on and I don't know why.

That was rough but I made it through.

Oh No! Another one?

GEEZ. Day 53 I don't know if I can take another day of fighting this.

I see it coming and I'm Walking Around

I got through, Three bad days but I walked around the second and third one.

I GOT THIS!. Nothing can make me smoke!

Dammit! Where'd this come from??? Another walkaround.

That Was Not As Bad as I Expected

Day 126. I think I'm having a breakthrough!  I know I'm done with smoking! I feel it to my core!

Skies Look Clear! I'm looking forward to making my first year smokefree!

and then two years

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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.