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Did you ever consider there might be a good reason relapse rates drop drastically after 2 years?

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎09-19-2016 08:16 AM

We tell you it's a mind game. We explain that the only way to be free is to unlearn it.

  
   
    
     
      
       It's mainly getting used to getting through life without smoking.     
      
       At 2 years...      
You've been through the changes of seasons twice     
You've most likely experienced the pain of losing somebody close to you    
     

and/or
Your pet
Perhaps lost your job

     

Had a bad illness

    
Been through those difficult holidays twice without smoking   
   
Why in the heck would you go back? 
Stick it out.

Don't let your emotions rule your quit! Face them. Acknowledge them. Find new healthy reactions and actions.

Onward and Upward!

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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.