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Believe It

JonesCarpeDiem
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      I think we all have a touch of it.

      We all would like to think it's the other guy that caused us to fail. I know I do occasionally but then I  take the emotion out of it and analyze exactly what happened before I place or accept blame. Some people have less than honorable intentions and desire to force a certain outcome. (predator or prey.)

      When people quit smoking many often blame everything that's going bad in their life on quitting smoking. Every illness immediately after quitting becomes quitting related. Every bad choice made is magnified

because they still believe in smoking.

They still believe in smoking. Did you read that?

Well it's true. We've come to expect that bump up and it's difficult to believe we can live without it.

Once those nicotine receptors are desensitized your system will again create dopamine from natural highs such as Thoughts, Situations, Experiences

Without the thought of a cigarette.

Believe 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.