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Share your quitting journey

As long as we're still breathing, we have an unfinished life.

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎09-13-2015 11:50 AM

What we choose to do with it is up to us.

As I watched An Unfinished Life a couple of mornings back, I couldn't help but marvel at the storytelling as the movie progressed. It was one of those movies that kept you entertained as it fed your desire to know what was going to happen next.

It's very similar to this journey we call quitting smoking..

We really never know where life will take us but we learn that smoking is not required.

Smoking was our status quo but we've learned to let it go.

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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.