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NEW QUITTERS: You Can Pressure Yourself And Anticipate The Worst

JonesCarpeDiem
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But, does that work for you or work against you?

Why make yourself angry and upset that you have to quit?

A majority of people considering quitting enter into it with a bad frame of mind.

They don't want to give up smoking and they're fearful they can't.

They don't understand they aren't giving up but gaining

I didn't set a quit date until I was ready and knew I could do it.

What I did will not work for those who don't do it.

NOTHING WORKS IF YOU DON'T DO IT.

The way I quit puts absolutely no Stressure on you.

It makes you think before you smoke which causes changes.

After a short time (weeks, not, years) you will have proven you don't need to smoke just because you thought you did. (I was ready to quit after 4 weeks.)

So why not do it? What do you have to lose?

All you people "trying" to quit.

STOP OVERTHINKING THIS.

Stop making it impossible for yourself by creating fear and negativity.

Just start saying "I'm going to wait a little longer," every time you think of smoking.

That's it.

Your smoking pattern will change automatically if you'll just do that.

I guarantee this will work, but, you have to do it for it to work.

Onward and Upward

 

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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.