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BE SMART

JonesCarpeDiem
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If you are serious about quitting smoking you will plan your life in order to avoid situations before you are smack in the middle of them and overwhelmed by the desire to smoke.

I suggest being highly aware of risky situations that would trigger your desire to smoke for at least the first 4+ months and have an escape plan if it was imperative that you be in that situation at all.

Smoking isn't natural. We weren't born with a cigarette and a lighter.
It's something we chose to do. YOU MUST UNCHOOSE IT IF YOU WANT TO BE FREE.

If you aren't going to give your quit 100%, why waste your time fighting yourself and being uncomfortable going through withdrawal over and over and over?

Realize the first two to three weeks are a difficult and uneasy time for everyone.
Are you unwilling to give yourself that small amount of time to show yourself you don't need to smoke just because you thought you did?

"If you've quit smoking and you're still smoking,you're doing it wrong."

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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.