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Share your quitting journey

Anger, Frustration, Hopelessness

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎03-07-2021 06:51 AM

Are they caused by smoking?

Of course not.

      Are health problems caused by smoking?

Some are and some aren't.

      Smoking is 90% ritual and 10% Nicotine.

You have two adversaries. One takes time to unlearn and the other you can quit any time.  Your body will adjust to the loss of nicotine.

      Your mind takes much longer to adjust to the loss of the ritual.

The ritual becomes the greater pacifier because you've accepted the expectation of relief.

      We all want to feel good. We all aim to feel good for, who wants to feel bad?

It's difficult to weather a storm with just an umbrella when there are 60 mile an hour winds. Stepping in out of the storm is the only remedy.

      So many see quitting as a negative, a giving up of something when perhaps, a better way to see it might be a letting go.  We here are only opening the door for you to step out of the storm.

Quitting smoking is a gift to yourself by yourself.

**** happens, and then you die.

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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.