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Share your quitting journey

I know what to expect

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎10-15-2015 04:32 PM

I go in at 6am tomorrow to have another layer of cells burned from inside my esophagus.

They will send me home about noon.

For the entire first week, everything I swallow will be uncomfortable.

The mucous from the intubation will clear after that first week but my life force will be very low for the following three weeks while my esophagus heals itself from within.

It's a process and a very similar process to quitting smoking.

When we quit, there are milestones we each must get through.  The only way out is through.

You who do this over and over, again and again?

Try to grasp this process concept and allow yourself enough time to unlearn smoking and let it go.

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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.