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Share your quitting journey

I've been around here awhile

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎01-04-2016 05:12 PM

I've noticed most groups tend to lose participation quickly as people lose their quits and leave the site..

So what are groiups for? What do groups do?

Since we don't have live chat, they enable topics of conversation that may or may not relate to what's going on in the blogs.

There are daily pledge groups.

There are groups for people who quit the same month as others in the group.

Groups induce comraderie.

They can produce humor, creativity and sharing.

I heard it from a little bird that they want to slim down the untended non participating groups.

It was also suggested I might spruce up my latest group so I've renamed it, explained it and all are welcome.

It's about insights and milestones in your quit smoking walk.

Here's a link.

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

If you've realized something you've overcome on your quit smoking walk, join the group and share it with us.Someone else might be ready to experience the same think or it may give another the confidence to go on.

Perhaps you have an idea that has not been created as a group multiple to hundreds of times that we could flesh out and see what interest there is?

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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.