"I Really Like Smoking" Perhaps most of us had these thoughts?

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My response today is "I really like NOT SMOKING more than I liked smoking."

Since most of us started at a young age, we can't honestly remember a time when we weren't smoking so, how can we know we like smoking more than we don't like smoking?

The answer is, we can't and, we won't know until we've lived without smoking for a period of time

Nicotine IS A LIAR and, the biggest lie is to ourselves. (and a big reason we allow ourselves to continue)

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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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"I Really Like Smoking" Perhaps most of us had these thoughts?