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Tripping The Trap

JonesCarpeDiem
5 3 55

      The way to undo the connections to smoking is with positive reminders and SMALL changes in your old routine.

      

      We suggest people who have trouble drinking coffee because it reminds them of smoking to drink it with the other hand or in a different location than they did as a smoker.

      Self talk is another reminder. "I don't do that anymore." (stop telling yourself you can't do it or you need a cigarette)

      You could get a jeweler to engrave something like "I quit and I'm glad I did" on something to hang from your rear view mirror or put on your key ring or a necklace.

(thanks Missy)

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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.