emergency pack

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When you've quit smoking,

there is no such thing,

as an emergency pack.

It takes a number of steps to smoke if you don't have any around

pick up your keys

walk to your car

unlock your car

drive to the store

wait at the stop signs

park your car

walk into the store

talk to the clerk

get out your money

hand it to the clerk

walk outside

open the pack

get one out

put it to your lips

You could have stopped yourself at any one of them,

This is why the emergency pack is a bad idea.

Hey, where'd you get that lighter anyway?

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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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