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Listen To Your Body

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎09-10-2018 06:44 AM

Block the addict mindset. Question what you've been told.

What is really true is you knowing you.

      You know what's going on with your own body and how to describe what you're feeling to your Dr. allowing them to diagnose you faster than they could have without your input.  You can use that inner knowledge in your quit.

         If you're listening to your body and it's telling you you don't need nicotine replacement therapy any longer, listen to it. Test it. See how you do for a day.

How will you ever know if you can get off it if you aren't listening to your inner knowledge?

NRT'S ARE A TEMPORARY AID TO HELP YOU EASE THE PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS WHILE YOU GET A HANDLE ON NOT DOING

THE RITUAL PART OF SMOKING AND CHANGE YOUR ROUTINE.

      Telling someone to continue using nicotine is no guarantee of anything except the continued use of nicotine.

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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.