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Get Through Until YOUR Breakthrough

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎07-02-2015 06:08 AM

Breakthrough : a sudden, dramatic, and important discovery or development.

This behavior change of going from smoking 20 times a day to where you don't think of smoking takes time.

Everyone of us who smoked for a long period of time has hundreds of thousands of smoking memories

There's no hard and fast rule to when each of us has our breakthrough.

Some people say they didn't feel their breakthrough until 6 months.

The truth is, of you don't make 130 days, you don't make 180.

If you don't make 6 months you don't make a year.

So get through until your breakthrough.

Time is the healer. Don't focus on smoking, don't put yourself in risky situations and let it work.

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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.