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What have we/are we shown/showing our kids?

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎09-09-2014 09:46 AM

I hope all those here who are still young and don't have families yet will honor their committment to quit.

I was fortunate that my daughter never picked up smoking. By not smoking around her, she didn't realize I smoked until she was 15.

If we don't break the cycle of smoking, it will continue on into future generations. We've left our kids to pay for the damage we've done to ourselves by smoking.

Make your quit count. Stick with what you know is right.

Unlearn the motions of smoking, It's the key. Switching to something that mimics smoking just keeps you close to it.

You have more strength and ability in this area than you know. OWN 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.