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The Quitting Game

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎02-16-2016 07:58 PM

What if I told you you could play a game with yourself where you proved you didn't need to smoke just because you thought you did?

What if I told you that there was absolutely no stress or denial of smoking in this game? That you could smoke whenever you want with no daily quotas or limits, no counting, and, no pressure whatsoever to quit?

What if I told you you would realize you were ready to stop smoking and enter into quitting without negativity or apprehension? That you don't even have to set a quit date until you are ready to get started? 

Does it sound too good to be true?
Then try it! I dare you!

It's a simple game. There is only one thing you have to do.

Whenever you think of smoking say to yourself, "I'll wait a little bit longer." There is no denial, remember? The idea is to get yourself to stop and think each time BEFORE  you smoke.

That's it. That's all you have to do, then, watch the results.

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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.