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Share your quitting journey

people often ask why people with long quits stick around

JonesCarpeDiem
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Some things are instinctual. Quitting smoking is not one of them.

I've watched the DC Eagles from shortly after they hatched and it is amazing to see their daily progression.
They would sit on their butts before their tail feathers came in.
When their tail feathers came in, they no longer sat on their butts.
They were born exactly 2 days apart and they flew from the nest for the first time exactly two days apart.
Neither of them knows how to hunt yet so they are still dependent on their parents.

What if you had never heard of or seen fire? Or a phone? Or a car?
Would you know how to create something like fire if you had never heard of fire or seen fire?
What can you learn if there is no input but yourself?
We learn by watching or listening to someone else.
And that is why we who have succeeded stick around.

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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.