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Just Entering Year 13 Of Freedom From The Butts

JonesCarpeDiem
Member
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‎01-02-2019 09:49 AM

Right...................NOW

At 7:20am 12 years ago, I stubbed out the last cigarette that ever touched my lips.

Throughout the past 12 years, I've given my secrets to a successful quit

How I prepared with no stress

Where Does It Come From? 

How I got through the first 2 weeks

Keeping busy & replacing the dopamine by playing guitar 10 hours a day

What to expect during the time I've seen most people fail.

What to Expect in the First 4 Months 

https://excommunity.becomeanex.org/groups/best-of-ex/blog/2011/05/24/no-mans-land-days-30-to130-appr... 

How to retrain your mind quickly once you've quit

Say "I don't do that anymore"  every time you think of smoking

I discovered that laughing when I had a crave helped me steer away from danger.

How to beat the strongest craves

  • Bite into a lemon skin and all
  • Stick your head in the freezer and count backwards from 20
  • Fill your mouth with ice cubes and let them melt while trying to avoid brain freeze.

What statistics say 

https://excommunity.becomeanex.org/groups/best-of-ex/blog/2013/12/05/the-two-sets-of-seasons 

General information

My Welcome To New Members (10 Years Of Watching) 

And Most Importantly

Willingness, Not Willpower

Time Is The Healer

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23 Comments
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.