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Number One Tool To Quit Smoking?

JonesCarpeDiem
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you can't be wishy washy about quitting smoking.

you MUST GET INVOLVED. It isn't going to just "happen" unless you make it happen.

Why mess around with all this "maybe this time it will work" and "I hope I can quit" BS

Honestly, that thinking DOES NOT WORK

Think about what you are doing. Talk with yourself as your quit progresses.

Listen to your body feeling better not to  those smoking memories trying to take you back.

Nicotine's a LIAR. Don't you get it?

Wake up. You can't sleep through this.

It takes some thinking every day to plan ahead for unexpected situations. Thinking of smoking will begin to dissipate around 100 days. Success takes time but quitting is a definable statistically based process.

Step One

Give yourself 130 days from your last puff and I guarantee you won't think of smoking in the same way.

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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.