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Share your quitting journey

What is a craving if you've been off nicotine for a year or more?

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎05-04-2017 06:51 AM

It ain't no nicotine monster.

It's your thought.

It comes from a memory that is stored up there in your cabeza.

They say we only use 10% of our brain.

What if the other 90% is for storing memories?

What if the memory of every cigarette smoked is logged in up there?

What if the emotion you were feeling is connected to those memories?

What if they sit in rows by date of birth and emotional connection

until they are recalled by you because you felt the same emotion triggered by a smell or a person or similar situation.?

SO WHY GIVE THEM ANY INFLUENCE?

Why Give Them Any Power?

That is your choice.

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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.