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Share your quitting journey

change is good and life is better without smoking.

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎09-25-2018 05:58 AM

      When you've lived in the same house, in the same town for 20 years or more,  and then you think about moving, you're naturally going to think of memories and good times you're leaving behind.

               The connection to smoking is like that.

               We didn't just smoke when we were sad,

               We smoked when we were happy too.

               Every time we did, and no matter what the reason,

               we got that hit of nicotine.

It was the common denominator that tied us to smoking.

      Once that physical connection is broken, you begin to unlearn and remove those ties. Nicotine was the routine.

 

              Take heart.

               Change is good.

               It's fun to settle into a new place and make it your own.

               It's even better when you aren't smoking.

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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.