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Smokers Don't Get To Smoke, THEY HAVE TO SMOKE

JonesCarpeDiem
6 15 30

I've never met a smoker yet who deep down wouldn't prefer to be a non smoker. They just don't know how.

Quitters are where you find them.

I was shopping at 5:30 and when I came out I backed into a pickup truck's brush guard and bent it slightly.
I wasn't in a big hurry. It was dark and his truck was dark.
I gave the driver my insurance information and went to my other store to shop.
He called me as I was checking out and said there wasn't much damage and he didn't want to pursue any action.
He also said he noticed I hadn't come out of the first store with any groceries and asked me if I needed some help.
I explained the bookmark brought up last weeks ad and nothing in the store matched it and I was fine.
When I got home, I called him and told him I noticed a pack of smokes in his pocket when we were talking and offered to help him quit smoking if he ever became interested.
He was very open to the idea and asked me how to get started.
I told him to just tell himself to wait a little longer when he wanted to smoke and it would prove to him he didn't need to smoke every time he thought he did.
I told him about the site.
Helping people find their freedom is a labor of love, I can explain it in no other way.
~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.