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Unbearable? or Unexpected?

JonesCarpeDiem
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If you can get through the first month, you're most likely expecting the hardest days to be over.

They are and they aren't.

My hardest three days were the mid 50's and I had another really difficult one after I passed the 100 day mark.

What took me through?

The knowledge of No Mans Land from a post on the other site and a medical study that said if you got through 16 weeks of not smoking you were essentially through the most difficult part of quitting.

Give it the time it takes and you will be free.

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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.