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JonesCarpeDiem
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So this quit smoking thing.

What are you going to make of it?

Have you decided it's going to be a big problem? If so, It will be.

Are you afraid of quitting or are you afraid of failing?

Why are you afraid of either?

Were you afraid when you started smoking?

Didn't you just kind of slide into it with a friend or

sneak them from someone in your family?

There was no forethought, no discussion of repercussions.

Hell, you didn't know what you were getting into.

How many times throughout your years of smoking

have you said to yourself, "I can quit anytime." or "I really should quit?"

Isn't smoking a contradiction to living?

I'm telling you it is because you live to smoke and

you don't truly know it yet.

Not only that, it is damaging your health.

Everyone is here to encourage you.

Some of us have put in the time and watched enough peoples journey's to figure the angles, guide you along, and, teach you to believe in yourself.

We can show you how to slip the trap.

If you keep an open mind,

and, I don't mean we are going to be telling you "strange" things,

but, we have been there, right where you sit and

There's a method to our madness,

a reason to our rhyme,

Open up your mind and give it time.

/blogs/jonescarp.aka.dale.Jan_2007-blog/2011/06/26/what-to-expect-in-the-first-four-months 

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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.