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An Eternity of Cravings?

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎02-27-2024 10:10 PM

There's no requirement for that to happen.

By the time you've been down the ex road for 6 months or so you should've asked yourself

"Just what is a craving?"

Is it like a drug memory? Did something remind you of the feeling you got?

or

Is it something you've connected this moment to one in the past when you were a smoker?

Break it down for yourself and you can let it go.

You like me, may have liked the smell of cigarette smoke on the breeze before you ever became a smoker.

SO WHAT? 

You might still like the smell from a distance, as I do.

SO WHAT? It doesn't have to be a trigger.

Break it down and let it 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.