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the misery of my cold or a new quit, lives on....but it will end

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎11-21-2015 05:39 AM

I was goingalong Thursday thinking I was on the worst day of the cold...

Then, Friday came along

I'm just tired of the misery as I wake this morning,

the misery, it's still here. when will it end? (in a quit, this is the mindset that will take you back to smoking)

Isn't it strange how we accept the physical symptoms of a cold as real.

But, what about the symptoms of withdrawal? Aren't they actually more psychological?

Here's the kicker. We've all had a cold and lived through it. We trust that because we've actually experienced it.

The misery is temporary. We are here to prove it gets better in time and there is a way out besides going back to smoking.

I may got a cold but, I'm not chilly, willy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRKu_aAOyVI

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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.