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~Proactive Interference~

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎10-13-2018 10:17 AM

      What do those two words "proactive interference" mean?

I looked them up and they were not necessarily what I expected.

      What they mean to me is positive "self talk."

      Self talk can quickly halt reverting to old ways and enable you

to get some time under your belt as you learn to change your responses.

People talk themselves into smoking. People can talk themselves out of it.

I like the the "pro" in proactive because it typically notes something positive.

"Quitting can be something positive when you look past the negative."

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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.