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Keep Them Away From Your Face

JonesCarpeDiem
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          We all came to believe a drug was stronger than ourselves.        
We all came to believe it was the most important thing in our lives.        
        
Oh, we never talked about it or confronted it but our years of actions spoke louder than our words.      
We let it become the joy in our life.     
We took it's advice and succumbed to its control and relinquished our lives to it.     
Why do we stick around? To help you open your eyes and see this.    
    
Do You Want Out? You can't change until you wake up.  
Will you wake up? Will you break out of the nicotine nightmare and make your new dreams?  
    It's letting go of the drug and then, it's overcoming memories that urge us to repeat something that we made our "normal." 
   Do we need to over think that until we create enough chaos in our minds to smoke?
  
Keep It Simple Stupid

Time is the healer

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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.