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Share your quitting journey

I've been quit a considerable time

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎04-06-2013 02:30 PM

and if someone offered me a cigarette i would say, "no thanks, i did that for 40 years."

then, they would be asking me how i quit.

honestly, if i thought i had to worry about smoking again, i would feel like it still had some power over me.

I wouldn't even consider it, so, there is no fear, no contemplation. it hasn't had any place in my thought life since i decided to quit. and yes, i went through everything you all are.

if you honor the decision you made and not harbor the possibility of smoking you refused when you made it, once you've got a couple years quit, this becomes about living life not about constantly looking over your shoulder.

be hopeful be free

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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.