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Share your quitting journey

unlearning some connections and keeping others

JonesCarpeDiem
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I lost my mom in 1999.

To this day I still have the memories/thoughts connected to what things my mom cooked prior to the 40 years I left home, 39 of those years my smoking years..

They are interconnected to the time of year, temperature, what produce is in season, the smells.

It's connected up there in our heads.

Those connections are many many times stronger than any memories of smoking.

You can simply let smoking go.

Smoking is just something you did along with living until you see it's control over you.

Unlearn smoking. It's easier than you think.

Be Patient

Give it time. 

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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.