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Why, When We Know What We Are Supposed To Do To Better Ourselves We Most Often Don't Choose It?

JonesCarpeDiem
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We get in a comfort zone. It's our nature to want safety, security and not continually be in fight or flight mode.

Perhaps it's due to circumstances we do not control. A relationship.  There certainly Is the need for something that fills the need for comfort and releases dopamine.

Smoking was actually a very easy way to be comfortable. But, not good for us.

If you look at Quitting Smoking, Weight Loss, Athletic Achievement or any other of a multitude of things, they can all pretty much be achieved with the same willingness to make change.

So, perhaps we begin to create a new comfort zone by beginning to chip away at it?

(one day at a time)

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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.