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Share your quitting journey

A request for all new quitters.

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎12-05-2015 05:45 PM

Would you keep track of the days you realize you didn't think of smoking at all (from the first time onward)

You can post them when you blog. These are the first tangible milestones you come upon in your journey to unlearn smoking. I've watched for awhile and it seems that many have their first one from about day 85-110.

Write each one down as they happen and perhaps we can put together an unofficial study?

I just started a group called "the first days I forgot about smoking." You can post them there if you recall them or as you experience them

https://excommunity.becomeanex.org/groups/celebrating-milestones

thanks

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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.