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You don't have to think too hard to quit

JonesCarpeDiem
6 9 103

you just have to catch yourself when you think of smoking.

Just catching yourself stops the progression of thought and action.

This hit me the third morning of my quit. "A HA you didn't get me!"

It made me realize smoking was a choice, a decision and not something I had to follow through on.

You weren't missing smoking before you were a smoker

It's unlearnable and it's unlearnable easily if you just stop and think before you would've automatically acted.

Smoking becomes reflex, ritual, routine, and repetition as much or more than the physical addiction.

Stop telling yourself a dog can't learn new tricks and start unlearning smoking.

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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.