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Find The Blessings In Your Life

JonesCarpeDiem
4 7 98

Smoking is not one of them

I'm not saying it's a curse. (did I just say that? IT'S A CURSE!

Seriously

Look for the glue in your life. The relationships that make you feel good.

Find the positive and mix it into your quit.

The intensity of longing to smoke will weaken.

In two years the relapse rate drops to 2-4% 

Be willing. Be accepting of quitting smoking. Fighting your quit only weakens you.

      I'm so fortunate to still have my dad. This man is a lot of glue. He's in his 90's but still comes by to wash one car and then go home and bring the other nearly every Saturday.

He likes to have clean cars for church on Sunday.

So, I'm sharing some of my glue with you!

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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.