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Counterfeit Emotions and Living In The Moment

JonesCarpeDiem
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When we are smokers and have recently smoked, we are back in a good mood because we got our nicotine/dopamine fix.

20-45 minutes later when it starts to decline, we need to "feed the need" again.

I would say the need of any addiction creates counterfeit emotions because we are only ok with ourselves when the drug is in our system. Our reality is not what everyone around us is feeling unless they are all smoking too.

When we talk about freedom here, being free of the "need" and the counterfeit emotions created by the need is what we are talking about not just smoking.

Read some of the blogs. Being able to be in the moment. To play with your grand kids or your children without thinking of smoking is the real deal.

That's the freedom of which we speak.

Think about that one

People who continue using nicotine must still plan their existence around getting it.

🙂

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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.