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Smoking Doesn't Help You Find Yourself

JonesCarpeDiem
8 4 106

      Most of us started to smoke in our teens or earlier, and as such, never adjusted our emotions to move into adulthood.

   Some of us may have started working young and used it as our reward for taking the responsibility of working.

      It became easier in the heat of the moment for many of us to deescalate by thinking about the relief of smoking and completing THAT action ASAP rather than dealing with a situation. It was the chemical change we wanted, the buzz that we wanted, not disagreement.

We never knew any different.

You can't even comprehend this until you stop.

      We used smoking for taking a break from emotions but, we had no idea how detrimental that would be to working through an emotion.

      Now is your chance to find yourself.

Commit Yourself, Don't Give In

You Will Get Comfortable In Your Skin.

Give It Time, You Can't Rush It

Experience Life Don't Smoke And Flush It.

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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.