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Share your quitting journey

If I were a new person

JonesCarpeDiem
Member
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‎10-23-2015 06:38 AM

and I came to this site first thing in the morning

and all I saw on the blogs were ads from moving companies in India

I would think WTF? I thought this was supposed to be a quit smoking site.

This is what it used to be like here every morning, often the entire first page of the blogs was advertising.

Admin would stroll in 12 hours or more later and delete it.

ARE WE GOING BACKWARDS?

Doesn't the Big Tobacco settlement fund this place?

If so, why is the site so cheap they won't have someone available to delete this stuff or TRUST some longtime members with the ability to do so which wouldn't cost anything?

I don't get it.

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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.