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Lots Of Brainwashing About Quitting Smoking

JonesCarpeDiem
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Here's the biggest one of all.

I don't know if I want to quit bad enough

or

I don't want to quit.

Let's dispel that myth right now.

Whether you want to quit or not, if you don't decide to quit, you won't.

You do not have to want to quit to decide to quit. The two are not mutually inclusive.

What is mutually inclusive to succeed is the willingness that goes along with that decision.

If you aren't willing you are in opposition to your decision.

Yes, it's tough those first few weeks. Yes, it's especially trying those first 4 months or so, but, how long did you smoke?

Yes, you have to be willing to allow yourself to unlearn what you've done for so many years.

The physical addiction lasts as long as you are using nicotine but your brain rewires those pathways as early as a month after you quit using nicotine.

If that is the case, why would you believe that you can't let it go?

It's the memory of the feeling that nicotine gave you that is associated with what was going on at the time you smoked each cigarette for all those years that you are unlearning.

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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.