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Punched in the gut

JonesCarpeDiem
15 10 143

      That's how I'd feel if I lost my quit gave up my quit.

      Do you think I wouldn't remember how and when I started back smoking?

      Hell, I would run it through my head over and over again.

      In the end, I'd know it was my choice to smoke.

      If you value the time you've got into your quit you won't throw it away.

      If you value it, you can't forget how you lost your investment.

      Remember, once you really give it your best, even if you fall, you'll never think of smoking or enjoy it in the same way.

Then, will you succeed.

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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.