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Share your quitting journey

Monotone Megaphone

JonesCarpeDiem
Member
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‎06-22-2017 10:33 AM

      I'm sure there are some of you who get tired of my writing. I write for new quitters. I write for those who "don't get it."

      I don't look for responses. I'm here to make points, not earn points.

If I'm boring you, forgive me.

      My whole message is

"It's not as complicated as you want to make it."

I believe many people consciously or unconsciously make quitting complicated because it becomes easier to excuse themselves if they can claim they don't understand.

Don't ignore the truths.

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The coddling is for others to provide.

I'm trying to reach that new person with concepts and solutions and the one's who haven't got it before they slip off the radar.

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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.