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Share your quitting journey

if you are new here and you haven't yet quit.

JonesCarpeDiem
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You would be wise to start making changes to your normal smoking patterns before your actual quit date.

Get off automatic (they call it tracking here)

When you want to smoke, ask yourself if you really need that smoke or if it is one of the automatic ones.

If it's one of the automatic ones?, tell yourself to wait a little longer.

Make it a game with yourself.

You will learn a lot about yourself and you will come to realize that you don't really need to smoke every time you think you do.

This is a major lesson learned. before your actual quit and that learned knowledge can fuel the beginning of  your quit for you.

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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.