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disconnection

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎05-02-2015 07:45 AM

"To sever or interrupt the connection of or between."

I believe the ultimate quit is the point of disconnection.

Non smokers never chose the connection to nicotine and smoking.

Are they less prone of the need to feel pleasure?

I don't necesessarily believe that.

We all get our dopamine from different things.

Anything that you enjoy and repeat because of that enjoyment could be considered an addiction.

I have found that music has always been my release.

Others find it in the excitement of sports.

Others by pushing themselves to the limits of their physical abilitiy.

Others with nature by getting their feet off the asphalt and into the dirt.

These are the things that will disconnect you from smoking.

You have to allow disconnection. You can't sit around and pine for something that was a lie. Pining for the past just because you know nothing different is staying in the trap. Let it go! Live! Disconnect!

Onward and Upward.

Have a great Saturday!

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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.