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Share your quitting journey

Your Turning Point

JonesCarpeDiem
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   Have you figured out what goes on here?  
If so, will you,  
A: quit?  
or  
B: keep smoking?  
If it's A, you will be learning what we've already learned by reading the blogs and asking questions, changing up small things in your daily routine before you quit to get yourself off "auto smoker" and honestly considering whether you are going to quit and making a plan on how to do so.  
If it's B, and you intend to make a halfhearted attempt, what are you doing here?  
There's no sense playing at quitting. If you fail again and again all you learn is disappointment. 
So again, if you are fighting yourself just thinking about quitting while you are still smoking, you're most likely not willing to be uncomfortable or make such a major change to your daily life. 
Of course there is a cost to be free. Being willing to change is the price to be paid.. 
I know. It doesn't sound like much but that's why people keep smoking.
  You don't have to want to quit but you do have to decide to quit but, make the choice, or not, it's up to you.
  
We can help but you have to play this smart and, that means   thinking before you act.    We're here to give you our best, what are you willing to invest?
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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.