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Forward Or Flounder?

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎09-01-2017 06:06 AM

If 6% Make It A Year What's Going On With The Other 94%?

I believe the problem may be they don't know what to expect and, they haven't spent the time to learn what to expect so, they do what they've done every other time they've quit and then, give up.

They flounder. They do it again. And, do it again.

I don't want to bring up the Einstein quote but it's the gist of what I wrote above.

The following link and 2 links contained within it explain what to expect from the first week through the first two years.

/blogs/jonescarp.aka.dale.Jan_2007-blog/2011/06/26/what-to-expect-in-the-first-four-months 

FLOUNDER NO LONGER

Take The Responsibility To

Learn What You're Up Against

And Move Forward.

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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.