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Share your quitting journey

I may be going against the grain but I believe people who work too hard at quitting may never get started.

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎11-04-2016 12:48 PM

I'm going to tell you why.

When you have to constantly count and figure out triggers  IT'S A MAJOR LIFE CHANGE.

IT'S LIKE QUITTING SMOKING BEFORE YOU QUIT! MORE WORK AND PRESSURE THAN YOU NEED.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. The only valuable part of preparation is just thinking before you smoke.

Getting off auto pilot.

You will find that things change in your head automatically as you see your progress. I swear promise, if you do this

you will be ready to quit and will have no anxiety whatsoever before you start your quit. (because you don't even set a quit date until you know you are ready)

https://excommunity.becomeanex.org/blogs/jonescarp.aka.dale.Jan_2007-blog/2016/02/17/the-quitting-ga...

So, are you serious about quitting? You don't have to want to. There are no excuses to make. Are you serious about quitting?

You will notice less trips and more cash in your wallet. Just realizing that is your proof you don't need to smoke.

If you do what is in that link, YOU CANNOT FAIL to start your quit in a good place.

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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.