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Share your quitting journey

Whair yo Haid?

JonesCarpeDiem
2 2 44

It's between your ears

Within it are your

Hopes and fears

You say you'll quit

But just like that

You change your mind

and go right back

Right back to get your fix

My you've learned all the tricks

You've said a hundred times

that this one's gonna stick

Lets face reality

It's still not too late

whether you smoke or not

the stress will be the same

This quit is mine alone

I'll not throw it away

I'll honor me this time

and I will learn my way

From those ahead of me

I'll hear just what they say

this time I won't get lost 

like all those yesterday's

This time I'll love my quit

Smoking? I'm out of it.

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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.