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Share your quitting journey

wherever you go, there you are

JonesCarpeDiem
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Where you are is your responsibility.

Your thoughts tell you where to go and what to do

      If someone tells you to do something and you don't want to do it, you can refuse. There may be good or bad consequences for your choice.

      Nicotine is what keeps us coming back for more nicotine but what about when you no longer use nicotine? What makes people go back to smoking then?

Their thoughts take them back to smoking. Memories of the comfort from the dopamine triggered by the nicotine from a similar experience as a smoker?  We have routines as smokers that take effort to change but, they can be changed.

You're in charge of what happens to your future!

Accept that and you're halfway home.

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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.