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What lies between smoking and quitting smoking?

JonesCarpeDiem
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You have to make a decision and follow through.

You don't have to want to quit.

We all know the first 2-3 weeks are the weirdest part of quitting.

If you can get through that, why can't you keep going?

That place between being a smoker or a non smoker is you wasting your time in a self created hell unless and until you decide you aren't going keep playing at quitting.

Why keep shutting yourself down, what's the point? Why keep playing at it?

You say you have to quit OR ELSE?

Decide to quit OR ELSE you may find out what OR ELSE is!

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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.