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Think of smoking as a key on a keyring.

JonesCarpeDiem
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Smoking remains there just like a car key until you get a different car or a new front door lock. It stays there going in circles just like your keys until you need to take one off.

Why do we stay in the circle of smoking? Because it's comfortable

People tend to be repetitive. Repetition tends to make us feel comfortable.

And there you have it.

This is why you must take your key ring, split the riings with your thumbnail, and, slide smoking off like the key that you no longer need.

It doesn't hurt.

Yes, it's uncomfortable but gettting off that keyring is allowing enough time until you are comfortable not smoking.

It will happen if you allow it.

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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.