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Share your quitting journey

Fallacy: a mistaken belief, especially one based on unsound argument.

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎04-30-2015 07:39 AM

"You really have to want to quit to be successful"

Did you ever stop to think that you could just decide to quit?

That you could decide you weren't buying any more cigarettes?

That you could decide other peoples cigarettes did not belong to you.

That you were not entitled to bum one just because you used to smoke?

That there is no standing order saying you have to smoke whenever the thought pops into your head?

I believe that you CAN decide to quit and if you are willing and take the brainwashing away, you will be successful as long as you choose to be.

"Your quit will be yours 'til you don't want it anymore."

It's not uncomfortable forever. The thoughts of smoking do fade away in 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.