Remembering...

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For you...

Remember the first time you skipped rope? Were you a smoker then?

Remember the first time you roller skated? Smoker then?

First time riding a bicycle? Smoker then?

How about the first time you realized what things interested you? Smoker?

Were you a smoker when you had your first kiss?

Have you stopped doing things you used to find fun so you could smoke?

Smoking changes us

It changes our lives

We put it above all else in our lives

We give up things to smoke

You can get back to that place before you were a smoker

Willingness and time

Willingness to detach, Time to relearn

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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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Remembering...

Seeing And Remembering

I remember & hope to ~ N.E.F ~ Never Ever Forget!

I remember when I didn't smoke

Something to remember on Christmas Eve! 😃🎄