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Preconceived Notions

JonesCarpeDiem
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Most quitters are apprehensive before they quit. Much of it is just plain old brainwashing from snippets we've heard throughout our lives about quitting.

Then they start amplifying those snippets with thinking about how it's going to be based entirely upon those snippets.

Then they begin their quit.

It's like building on sand, and, most will soon give up and disappear.

This is why you learning what we tell you and putting it into practice guarantee's your best success.

Drink it in, Start practicing what we tell you with the self talk and give it the time it takes to dissassociate your connections to smoking. There's alot of them.  🙂

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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.