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Share your quitting journey

We see people come and go continually

JonesCarpeDiem
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Some of them are vibrant powerful effective communicators.

I know they have the best intentions and inspire the other new members.

They certainly Inspire myself and the other elders.

It is disappointing to all of us when they disappear from the site

likely, because they've gone back to smoking.

Talk, especially self talk, puts us directly on the path

to what we are telling ourselves.

It is very powerful but it can be good or it can be bad.

Keep talking to yourself but, keep saying the right things.

Don't tell yourself you want to smoke. You will make that happen by doing so.

Walk The Talk, And, Keep Walking The Talk!

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Time Is The Healer!

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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.