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will one make you want to go back to smoking?

JonesCarpeDiem
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I guess it would depend on how much you built up the idea of smoking to the point of smoking.

Some people don't plan it, they get in a situation that grows more and more condusive to smoking as they melt their inhibitions and thought process away with alcohol. No they didn't plan it.

Does it matter whether you talked yourself into smoking or whether you drank too much and allowed yourself to smoke?

I think what really matters is whether it makes you want to be a smoker again and/or if you use it as an excuse to go back to smoking. What do you gain by quitting? Have you begun to understand the good part yet?

Perhaps the first person who built it up and built it up in their head will have a big "let down" after they smoke and not go back. Or, maybe they just decide they can't deal with life without smoking. 50/50

What matters is that what you want is that which your mind will wrestle with unconsciously until it gets its way. It's our nature.

So, be careful what you "wish for" and don't let the "smoking self talk" get started

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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.