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Hmmm Part 2>For Those Who Think Quitting Is Too Much Work Before You Even Quit.

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎07-19-2017 07:11 PM

      Does all the counting and keeping track of your triggers before you quit really mean anything or help?

      I smoked whenever I wanted and could. Didn't you?

I wasn't a chimney at a pack a day but was a "solid smoker."

      Why would I want to focus on thinking of quitting smoking all day, everyday before I even quit when all I have to do is change my thought for a moment?

I think it bogs most people down and makes them think of quitting as "too much work."

      I believe all the conscious counting makes quitting more work than it needs to be and puts quitting in a negative light before you begin, then, when you do quit, you believe you have to think about smoking or not smoking or you're not doing something right.

      I'd rather just "tell myself to wait a little longer" when I want to smoke, which is what I did, and then let the naturalness of that action lower the amount and change my cycle of smoking automatically to prepare me to quit

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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.