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Nothing Works If You Don't Do It!

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎12-12-2014 10:08 AM

Thinking about NOT smoking doesn't really enter into the equation when you are thinking about smoking does it?

Once you let that "smoking talk" get started, YOU'RE A Goner!

This is why you must cut it off before it gains steam.

Please, Please, Please

Try saying this out loud before you've gained access or made a bunch of moves toward smoking and blowing your quit!

"I Don't Do That Anymore"

"I Don't Do That Anymore"

"I Don't Do That Anymore"

There are only two ways people blow their quits.

1. They talk themselves into it

OR

2. They drink until they lose their inhibitions so they have an excuse to talk themselves into it.

Tell me I'm wrong. How have you lost all your prior quits?

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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.