Your quit will be smoother if you replace the dopamine smoking gave you

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Exercise Releases DO-pamine

Laughter releases dopamine.

Music, happy or sad, will release dopamine

Chocolate will release dopamine.

Eating or food porn releases dopamine.

A sexual release releases dopamine.

A hobby releases dopamine.

Volunteering releases dopamine.

Anything that brings pleasure

or makes you feel good about yourself

Fear, and Anger also release dopamine but can take you to instead of away from smoking.

There are not many components to failure at quitting smoking.

I believe the lack of dopamine replacement is a major one until

your quit gets on its feet and you've adjusted.

When people feel bummed out and negative is when they go back.

Isn't it likely the dopamine release from an NRT is its only usefulness?

This is something in your power to do in order to keep your quit.

keep it in mind

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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.

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Your quit will be smoother if you replace the dopamine smoking gave you