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The Dwell

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎12-26-2018 12:22 PM

When I was a smoker, I didn't sit around all day thinking about smoking, did you?

When our body or routine told us we needed a smoke, we smoked.

People new to quitting tend to overthink a crave and end up dwelling on it.

When you dwell on smoking is when a quit is in danger.

Those smoking thoughts rattle around until many people have a cigarette in their hand and, by that point, they've already given themselves permission.

      This is why immediate self talk out of those thoughts is critical.

Say, "I don't that anymore" as soon as smoking pops into your head and, do it every time.  It is the easiest way to retrain your thinking, painlessly.

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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.