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Share your quitting journey

If you want to make this the hardest thing you ever do...YOU WILL

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎01-23-2014 06:33 AM

I would call that letting smoking control your life.

Aren't you here to stop letting smoking control your life?

If you think your life's focus has to be smoking or not smoking forever, you will be pretty darn wound up or pretty darn boring.

Life goes on without smoking and without focusing on smoking.

You unlearn smoking by living without smoking and making new, non smoking memories to replace the smoking ones.

Once you've DECIDED to not smoke and never go back, Shift your focus to living.

Take the 130 day challenge. That's an approximate time frame it takes to unlearn smoking to the point you break free of  "smokers autopilot".

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smorgy8513
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‎01-23-2014 06:38 AM

Dale, I listened to you with the 130 day challenge and made it to and through that.....found out that you were right!  (But then you are a smart, smart man!)     Now my next goal is fast approaching....my 6 month milestone coming up soon.    Thank you so much for your wisdom!

BTW.....why are you up so early...or is it late?

Sharon

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candylance
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‎01-23-2014 06:52 AM

Wisdom, wisdom, wisdom.............................

Candy     d135

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malin
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‎01-23-2014 07:04 AM

🙂  thank you!  

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cory-3-10-13
Member
‎01-23-2014 08:40 AM

This cat knows what he is talking about people!

Love ya Dale! If you hadn't told me about the 130 day challenge when I first quit, I know for a fact I would've relapsed...thankfully you educated me and my quit is 318 days strong now and I hardly think of smoking anymore.

If you are newly quit, push through the 130 days. Find things you love to do and do them instead of smoking. Look at this as your opportunity to find better things to have in your life than cigarettes...you will not regret it!

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12Finally34
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‎07-13-2017 02:44 PM

Thank you for reminding me it is grow  or die time.

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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.