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When your ears hear

JonesCarpeDiem
4 6 60

Your eyes and mind follow

It's our built in animal magic

Like when you enter a new space.

Your eyes do a screening for danger

things something or someone could hide behind, entrances and exits.

We do this without thinking.

Back to "When your ears hear"

We speak of self talk here to re enforce your quit, especially in the first four months.

If you'll hear yourself say "I don't do that anymore." or "That is not for me" or any of the other mantras people have come up with as reminders, you will solidify and cement your forever quit but, you have to hear yourself say it, then, in time it becomes an automatic shutdown of thoughts of smoking.

Do it!

Talk to yourself!

Find something that flips the switch

then, hear yourself say it until just the thought of speaking those words becomes the shutdown.

Say it every time.

YOU WILL BE AMAZED AT WHAT THIS WILL DO FOR 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.