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Could The Ideal Quit Be About Understanding?

JonesCarpeDiem
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Would you do it?

With the Understanding that  You can accept quitting smoking for yourself OR fight yourself?

With the Understanding that life will keep knocking us down whether we smoke or not and that smoking cannot change this?

With the Understanding that you can decide to quit smoking and then relax and let it happen, accepting that there will be some initial discomfort but it will pass?

With the Understanding that the psychological addiction (the habit/reaching/inhaling) is stuck in your mind and you aren't used to functioning without that repetition so it must be unlearned?

With the Understanding that there is no need to fight because you are simply choosing to change your behavior?

With the Understanding that you don't need to make it into something it isn't. and that most who create and magnify negativity from simple discomfort, will fail and talk themselves into smoking?

People don't die because they quit smoking. They die because they don't stop.

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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.