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The smoking lifestyle

JonesCarpeDiem
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the addiction to nicotine is what keeps you controlled. the memories of years of physical repetition just reenforce it.

ever choose to decline invitations or going places because you feared you couldn't smoke?

ever been talking with someone and have your mind suddenly blank out their words because you felt like you just had to have a smoke?

ever go to an event and leave for 10 minutes to have a smoke only to find out that you missed your son's home run? or your daughters part in the play?

ever leave your family sitting in a restaurant while you went outside to have a smoke?

ever smoke outside and then go back inside, concerned that all the people around you knew where you were and were judging you by your smell?

ever have to look for a place to hide and have a smoke?

Ever stand out in the rain or snow so you could smoke?

I did all these things.

We have allowed nicotine to make our choices since we became smokers. that is being controlled.

You have a choice, you can learn how to get through the initial discomfort and stop making excuses or you can remain enslaved.

Quitting smoking is much more than changing the delivery device but keeping the same lifestyle and remaining controlled by nicotine. Freedom is

You may have not realized what you were getting into when you originally started smoking. I doubt any of us did.

BUT

If you are still doing the same things I wrote of above, still wondering how to find a way out of this AND ARE JUST NOW considering quitting smoking~~~~~ YOU ARE AT AN IMPORTANT CROSSROAD IN YOUR LIFE ~~~~whether you understand it fully, or not.

You have the knowledge right in front of you. Choosing to remain enslaved when you know what you have given away all these years is not controlling your destiny it is remaining a slave.

You chose to smoke. UNCHOOSE IT!

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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.