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Share your quitting journey

you do what you have to do

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎12-14-2014 11:30 AM

I have a favorite place I order a breakfast sandwich 2-3 times a week.

They are so big I usually save half for the next morning.

I phoned my order in and was amazed when I arrived to only find the owner of the shop working. He was in the back making my sandwich. There was no one working the front.

People were coming in the door and it looked like he only had 1/3 of the pastries in the glass cases.

I asked. "are you working alone?" to which he responded "yes". I asked for my usual which I didn't see in the case and he said he was still making everything that wasn't in the case so I chose something made instead..

Now if this hard working, non complaining guy who is doing the work of two, in two different locations AT THE SAME TIME. on a SUNDAY MORNING, his busiest day of the week...

If he can do that, you can "keep them away from your face!"

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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.