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JonesCarpeDiem
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con·ster·na·tion>> feelings of anxiety or dismay

per·tur·ba·tion>>anxiety; mental uneasiness.a deviation of a system, moving object, or process from its regular or normal state of path, caused by an outside influence. (change?)

Doing things differently is NATURALLY going to cause uneasiness. CHANGE ALWAYS DOES.

You must step out of the mental smoking circle to get over the idea that not doing what you are used to doing is creating most of the uneasiness.

The next time you feel perturbed or consterned (new word?), step outside yourself and accept that change is the culprit and the only way to get you out of the smoking trap is by changing.

I wish you two quarters, a nickel and a dime and the quit of a lifetime. 🙂

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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.