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Most agree the first 3 days are the most difficult part of a quit

JonesCarpeDiem
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Does the difficulty experienced the first three days pertain strictly to lack of nicotine or does the frustration of not doing what you are used to also enter in?

I believe it can be one (NRT) or both (CT) depending upon how much nicotine you were using daily immediately before you quit.

On another note: Some people don't appear to take in the information provided and use it to their advantage. It seems to go around and not sink in. That keeps them going in circles.

Others take it all in and are wholly involved with quitting.

In either case, you will find you must often bend the thought of smoking over to kick it out of your head and succeed. I have just the machine as shown below. I call it the "bend over nic while I kick you to the curb!" machine.

Enjoy your weekend & Don't smoke it up!

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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.