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Share your quitting journey

You'll Keep Giving Permission Until Your Decision

JonesCarpeDiem
8 4 91

You smell smoke it starts you thinking

You start talking yourself into

Giving up the quit you worked for

Just five minutes to go smoking

First puff's not what you remember?

Then you ask, why did I do this?

Tastes like crap, it's pure displeasure

You weren't forced, you gave permission

This is how a quit is lost and,

Deep inside You know it, don't you?

So why do you choose to do it?

You should ask yourself the question.

A decision's what is called for

Sounds so simple but, it's true

You can try to quit forever

'Til you decide to see it through.

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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.