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No Clue

JonesCarpeDiem
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I go shopping very early and I occasionally need something from the seafood case. I had spoken to the butcher a few times and somehow the topic of smoking had come up and he had mentioned he wanted to quit during the past couple months.

I was talking with him and explaining that the nicotine is out of your system in three days and then there are two to three weeks of discomfort.

Suddenly another butcher chimed in with "my sister and many other people have used an electronic cigarette and quit."  I asked him if they were still using it and suggested that vaping is smoking with a battery and the majority were still slaves to nicotine and smoking.

There is no logic to their logic because remaining a slave is really indefensible but,they claim it's safer and apparently, that justifies their continued slavery.

 

Vapers really don't have a clue that continuing smoking is what they do.

They'll say "it's not smoking", they're smoking no more

But they haven't realized smoking is more

Than a match or a lighter it's giving up control

They've chosen a battery to give up their soul.

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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.