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Share your quitting journey

I can remember life before I ever smoked. How about You?

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎12-31-2016 01:21 PM

The Rose Parade is tomorrow.

I just recalled a number of times driving  to my aunts in Highland Park (near Pasadena)

We would drive the hundred plus miles from Oceanside the night before and sleep on the floor or leave home early and get to her home by 5am. We'd usually stop at a donut shop on the way to Pasadena.

Park on the Arroyo Seco Parkway along the concrete drainage channel funneling the Los Angeles River, and walk up the steep abuttment on the right side of the bridge.

We always found a great place right on the street because we were there early.

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Can you remember a New Years Day before you were a smoker?

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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.