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Did It Really Come From Nowhere?

JonesCarpeDiem
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You don't hear many successful quitters if any at all say

"It came out of nowhere. It just happened."

Whether they quit successfully the first time

or quit successfully after 50 times,

It didn't just happen, It didn't just come out of nowhere.

They decided. Whether before their first quit or after all those "tries"

Everyone must decide to quit before they can succeed.

Once you decide, not smoking isn't a battle.

Nothing to do with willpower. Nothing to do with outside forces.

You decide and accept your decision and you can move forward.

If you don't, you keep smoking. 

A Successful Quit,

Does Not Come From Nowhere

A Successful Quit,

Is Planned And Grown

Smoking Is

Unlearned

And Then,

Smoking Is Let Go.

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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.