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Share your quitting journey

you stay ahead of it

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎03-12-2019 09:11 AM

      You don't let situations "sneak up on you" until you've been quit for awhile.

Remember how we used to consider where we would be able to smoke in a new situation? You to turn that around and consider what might happen in a situation that would influence you to smoke. If your resolve is yet not solid, you avoid those situations for awhile.

      Living free takes a little sacrifice but, not as much as you fear.

This is gradual

      Life is just as much fun as a non smoker. Smoking was a lie.

The reason people thought smokers were more fun loving is because they had smoking in common. Addicts hang together to excuse one another.

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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.