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Can You Scare Yourself/Someone Smokefree?

JonesCarpeDiem
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If having to run outside the hospital to smoke while your parent or sibling, close relative or partner is dying of emphysema or lung cancer doesn't scare you smokeless, what do you think is going to do it? We are watching them waste away and not even making the connection that it could be us.

We've known of the severe illnesses caused by smoking since the 1970's and yet, we all smoked until we didn't.

You don't have to be scared to quit.

Quitting is not a scary thing. Quitting is simply doing things without smoking until the consideration of smoking actually goes away. And it does.

....that is if you don't keep throwing the idea of smoking in your own face with your bad self talk. 🙂

Oh and if your doctor orders you to quit smoking you can still be agreeable.

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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.