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Share your quitting journey

Do you look ahead?

JonesCarpeDiem
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Or, are you always looking down so you don't stumble?

      If you made a plan, and I mean plans for things you will do in situations to avoid smoking, You don't always need to be looking down or looking back.  

      When in a situation that is making you want to smoke, EXCUSE YOURSELF.

If you're with people, just say, "I need to go outside for a moment." If you're outside, say you need to go to the rest room.

Just by doing that you've stopped the process that would allow you to smoke.

If you're home,

Stick your head in the freezer and count backwards from 20

or

Bite into a lemon, skin and all

or run your hands under water and splash your face.

If you are unwilling to do these simple things, how serious are you?

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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.