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JonesCarpeDiem
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His couch was taken. He has no idea another will take it's place

but, he misses his couch and mourns his loss in the empty space.

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Quitting Smoking may feel like you've lost your couch.

It's likely the biggest change you will make in your lifetime.

You will miss smoking after you've quit.

because you've done

it so many times a day for so many years.

That is the mountain you must climb.

Success is growing the distance between yourself and smoking

and, that takes time making new memories without smoking.

Your new couch life is on the way 

btw this picture was from a true story about this cat  missing his couch.

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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.