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Smoking...No One Can Take It Away From You

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎08-04-2014 12:47 PM

There will always be stores where you can buy cigarettes.

There will always be people who smoke.

There will always be alcohol to loosen you up.

So, why worry about quitting? You aren't giving up anything! You will miss doing it because you've done it for so long and it's such a huge controlling part of your life but why worry about it!

You can go back anytime you choose to. (once you taste a glimmer of freedom, I doubt you will ever see smoking as something positive again.)

 

After smoking for 40 years, it's been my personal choice not to.

It can be your choice too!

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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.