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Share your quitting journey

I struggled the same as everyone but I didn't give in and I learned some things that got me through.

JonesCarpeDiem
1 10 9

I consider myself analytical but not anal.

When I look at a task, I look for solutions, specifically for the best one after thinking through all avenues open. I am here simply to pass my observations on to you.

My quit was iffy a few times in those first 4 months. I watched many quits fall by the wayside during this time period on the first site and I've watched  the same thing happen here for the past 8 years with so many disappearing during this time frame.

So what got me through and what will get you through?

I dug in and researched and I came across a medical study that claimed if people went 16 weeks without smoking, they had an excellent chance of freedom.

I read daily on the site I was on and came across a post by Ron Maxey that described THE FEELINGS  that drove people to give up after the first month and I realized, that was me but that was also why so many were falling by the wayside.

They simply did not know what to expect or how to work their way through it.

If you've failed again and again, ask yourself how many of those times were in the first 4 months and then read the following link.

https://excommunity.becomeanex.org/blogs/jonescarp.aka.dale.Jan_2007-blog/2011/05/24/no-mans-land-da...

Nobody gets to a year without getting through the first 4 months.  🙂

The only way out is through!

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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.