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The ONLY Way To Succeed At Quitting Is

JonesCarpeDiem
5 10 125

To Decide

      You Can Say You Want It, You Can Blame Everything Else But Yourself For Wanting To Smoke After You've Quit.  You Can Build Up Your Willpower, and You Can Talk A Talk But, If It Becomes The Wrong Talk:

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      Just Where Is "Oh I Can Have Just One" Leading You?

Those Thoughts Show Indecision.

Indecision Leads To Action

Those Thoughts Don't Appear If You Have Decided.

I Never Once These Past 10 Years Thought, "Oh, I Can Have Just One."

There Was No Denial. Quitting Smoking For So Many Is About Denying Yourself And That's A Damn Negative Thought

      The Choice To See Quitting With That Viewpoint, Is The Quitters Choice.

No One Else Makes That Choice For You.

      The Happiest Quitters I've Seen Over The Past 10 Years

Weren't Denying Themselves Anything By Not Smoking.

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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.