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will steamed broccoli aid or guarantee your quit success?

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎04-02-2016 08:07 AM

What's between your ears is really what quitting successfully is about.

If you believe a drug is going to help you quit, it will but, what about when you stop using the drug?

Statistically, don't many go back to smoking after they stop using the aid?

Others stay on the drug for many years believing that if they go off the drug they will go back to smoking. I consider that transferring psychological as well as the physical dependence to the drug. it may possibly be better to keep them seperate to succeed at both aspects of quitting. .

If you want to use an aid, that's certainly fine but, do it wisely. Make a plan in the back of your mind that you will take control of your quit and phase out your dependency on the physical in conjunction with unlearning the psychological addiction.

It's what's between your ears. 🙂

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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.