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The need for nicotine is constant, not occasional.

JonesCarpeDiem
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But only while you are still using it.

      If you have not had nicotine in your system for months and then believe you need nicotine occasionally to stay quit, you've sort of missed the point and placed your faith in it instead of yourself.

      Nicotine does not bring someone back to smoking who hasn't been using it for  months. It is simply not logical. It makes no sense. Why? Because once the receptors normalize, your body no longer needs nicotine. It's brainwashing to think something can keep you quit other than yourself. All too often people

have put their faith in the drug and lose sight of what they accepted and what they missed. What was it they missed? The other choice.

Memories connected to the ritual of smoking are what bring people back.

Going back to using nicotine Only Gets You Closer To Smoking.

Nicotine only holds you until you stop using it.

Allow the time for those receptors to normalize and your pleasure center to reset.

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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.