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20 Times A Day, Every Day, For Forty Years

JonesCarpeDiem
3 11 16

I never ate 20 times a day

I never used the restroom 20 times a day.

What is the only thing I did 20 times a day?

I smoked.

Doing something 20 times a day takes some time to unlearn and dissassociate your memories from..

Do you want to quit? I didn't.

I was challenged to consider it.

Over the course of a month I learned I didn't need to smoke just because I thought of smoking.

When will you learn that you don't need to smoke just because you thought of smoking?

That's what a successful quit boils down to no matter what "method" you use.

Be Willing

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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.