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The Biggest Obstacle To Quitting Smoking Is The Unknown

Most smokers begin in their teens before they are socially or emotionally developed.
We never experienced life without a cigarette in our hand.
We now have to learn what we never learned How to be comfortable in our own skin without our crutch.
Some people just aren't ready for that kind of change
Some will never be ready for that kind of change because this kind of change is life changing.
They've become too comfortable getting the drug and letting the world go by.
Yes, the unknown. This is the hard choice for most people about quitting.
This is the one that spawns a million excuses while hiding itself in a cloak of fear.

There is a joy in change. All you have to do is get started and you'll see.

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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.

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