you are so right!! Along with the NRT I have planned for my quit date there will also be no drinking. They go hand in hand together, Thanks so much for the reminder!!!
exactly! I had to give up drinking .......when I tried it at first, I just got so "pouty" that I couldn't smoke, .....it ruined my "good time"........so I just gave it up .....it's been 6 months now into my quit, and I have now been able to have a few beers as of late......it's ok now....I feel alot more comfortable in my quit now, but I don't drink like I used to....surprisingly, I don't miss drinking that much....
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.
