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Share your quitting journey

A comfortable, non threatening place is a better place start to your journey than in fear of failure

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎10-11-2015 07:39 AM

The simplest way I know to work your way up to it is to begin thinking before you smoke.

The next step is challenging yourself to wait a little longer between smokes.  You don't deny yourself, you are simply making yourself more aware.

Working up to it enables your mind to let go because you can't help but be inspired that you have some control before you've even quit. You will notice less trips to the store and money in your wallet. When you realize this you will have proven that you don't have to smoke just because it crosses your mind.

There is no time limit to get to this place. I took 4 weeks and set my quit date the day I knew I was buying my last pack which was 4 days before I quit.

This is just an example of how to get into the mindset you need to quit successfully without struggling to get there.

Have a great Sunday!

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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.