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Look Straight Ahead

JonesCarpeDiem
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Forget What's Alongside You Or Behind You

      The last group I was on the road with headlined at the Plaza Hotel in New York City for a month.

       I was driving a rental van full of equipment and one other person from our group from whatever city we had played last.

      Now, I had never driven in New York City before and I was driving an overloaded unfamiliar vehicle. Cars were coming from every direction at once.

It was FAST AND FURIOUS 1.0 for me.

There may be times your quit that will be fast and furious 1.0

How do you get through?

Your answer is the title of this post. 

Remember, all you're doing is unlearning smoking.

All it takes is time. Time to grow comfortable without it.

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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.