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For those who think something is gained or learned by relapsing

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎06-09-2015 07:05 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8XZxo7zcqk

For many, relapse is simply an excuse to smoke longer. (as in, 'til they quit again)

What if you don't quit again soon?

What if you just keep smoking another year? or two?, or 10?

How much damage may be done?

Every time you lose a quit, you put a hole in your armor and risk your future.

Smoking is a Choice

The only way to be successful is to UNCHOOSE IT!

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smorgy8513
Member
‎06-09-2015 08:23 AM

I like the "unchoose".    

Think I will make a counted cross stitch of that word.

I'm afraid....yes, I'll admit it.....I'm afraid to "slip" because I don't know if I could come back.    

So, the solution......don't make the choice to smoke just one.

UNCHOOSE!

Thanks Dale.

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cory-3-10-13
Member
‎06-09-2015 08:34 AM

Thanks for posting this, just watched the Joel video and I do not want to start this quit over again. I'm staying firm in my commitment to NOT smoke today. My choice.

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kate106
Member
‎06-09-2015 09:53 AM

I totally agree... I had cancer and didn't have a choice to relapse. No relapses for me. I was sure the smoking gave me the cancer! Two to three packs a day, stress, stress, stress at my job. 

I am so glad that I quit. It's all a matter of control. And I am around people that smoke on a daily basis, but I just choose not to put that in my body anymore.

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Giulia
Member
‎06-09-2015 03:29 PM

Dead on, Dale.  My experience with relapsing is once I start again, it's many a year before I get back to my quit.  I chose to unchoose smoking March 1, 2006.  Never Another Day One! 

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Summer-Rain
Member
‎06-09-2015 04:24 PM

I totally agree with the statement that smoking is a choice and I choose not to smoke again.

The journey continues

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elvan
Member
‎06-09-2015 04:36 PM

Loved this, Dale, thanks for posting it. I am sure I said that more than once and the only thing I ever learned from a relapse was how hard it was to get my quit back AND my integrity with my friends and family.

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MarilynH
Member
‎06-09-2015 06:47 PM

The last time I quit and screwed up a quit and relapsed was at least 15 yrs ago before I quit this time and I'll have 11 beautiful months of freedom from smoking on Sunday. Thanks for sharing this wonderful blog. 

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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.