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Big Changes Come When You Quit Smoking

JonesCarpeDiem
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As your emotions awake from "smokers slumber" you will begin to refuse being run over which is what the slavery of smoking allows, encourages and DEMANDS. We ran for the dopamine of a cigarette rather than confront and deal with our feelings.

If you are around smokers you might ask them to smoke outside or find yourself a place to escape. After awhile they will make the connection and possibly realize your right to not breathe their slipstream. Friends who blow smoke in your face after you've quit ARE NOT FRIENDS. Friends who are trying to get you drunk so you fail ARE NOT FRIENDS.

Wake Up! It's OK to take back your life and accept your emotions as valid.

Onward and Upward

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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.