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Share your quitting journey

NOT SO FAST!

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎01-08-2021 02:46 PM

It takes considerable thought to throw away a quit.

Emotions can then push that thinking to the forefront.

Is failure an expectation by those who fail?

Have they already conditioned themselves to give up?

What has happened to make them think along these lines?

Past failures at quitting?  The inability to realize stress and frustration will come whether they smoke or not?

What is so satisfying about a cigarette?

It's a drug.

It's a drug we came to depend on to change our attitudes.

We used it to quell frustration, anger, fear.

It takes time to change this thinking.

It takes not smoking to become independent of smoking.

Time is the healer

You didn't learn how to use a toilet the day you were born.

It was a learning process. 

ALLOW THE TIME!

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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.