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Share your quitting journey

There are only two ways people lose their quits

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎04-13-2015 10:30 AM

1. They dwell on the thought of SMOKING until they talk themselves into it

2. They drink alcohol and then talk themselves into it.

There is no pack of cigarettes hunting you down and, the corner store isn't going to chauffer them to you unless you ask.

Nothing will stick a cigarette in your mouth, light it and squeeze you like an accordian except YOU.

If you feel like you are heading down that slope,

you can shock your senses to stop it quickly.

1. Bite into a lemon skin and all

2. Stick your head in the freezer and count to 20

3. Stick your head under the cold water tap

4. Pack your mouth with ice cubes and try to not get brain freeze.

This guy learned how to stop a crave. The fun begins at 1:30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx1TVEvVf10

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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.