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Share your quitting journey

You Don't Yet Know What You Aren't Missing.

JonesCarpeDiem
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"Moving Away From What Has Been 

Extracting Ourselves From Our Smoking Routine

We're Changing What Our Brains Expect

The Sooner The Better And Hope We're Not Wrecked."

      Imagine you've entered a large building and  are opening a door to a large echoey pitch black room the size of a warehouse.It is storming and there is no electricity.  You've never been there before so you have no idea where obstacles might be placed  inside the room.

Good thing you brought a flashlight.  🙂

      When it's dark and I need to use the kitchen or the bathroom, I use the light from the room I'm leaving, to make a mental picture of my pathway before I step out.

Make A Mental Imprint Of A Future Without Smoking

      Use what you've learned that got you this far to keep going.

Celebrate your recognitions as you travel your path to success

If You're Always Forward Looking With Your Quit,

In Time, You Get Ahead Of 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.