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Share your quitting journey

How high is your mountain?

JonesCarpeDiem
5 5 107

First of all, WHAT IS YOUR MOUNTAIN?

What resistance will you put up against quitting?

What will be your excuse for failure?

Setting limits

Expectations

What's the worst thing that could happen?

When I quit, I asked myself a lot of questions.

      A major one was, "what could happen that would make you smoke again?"

      My answer was if the highway patrol came to my door to tell me my family was gone. 

That was my limit, my self-assigned breaking point.

      Have the rest of you given yourself a limit?

I believe it shows a true involvement when you consider and ask yourself this question before you quit, even if you don't set one.

      It can be an agreement with yourself as it was for me. It sets parameters before you start so you don't meander. It's like the agreement I made when I stopped using the patch the second week. I put one in my wallet with the promise I would put it on rather than smoke. It stayed there my first year. Never needed it. Hopefully, you grasp how powerful agreements with yourself can be.

Everyone has a different limit.

      We've watched more than a few life experiences lead people back to smoking. 

Why has my limit worked for me?

I grew my quit beyond my limit.

Decision

Acceptance

Time

Success

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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.