how lame! How about: my dog loved it when I'd smoke because that meant she could go outside with me while I smoked. Now she has to beg me to smoke so she can go out. 🙂 ...... okay, still lame - but I tried.
No,no--my cat actually did like it---I think he was addicted....he seemed to get really strange when I first quit---I think he went through withdawal!!!
Anyway---this isn't new but if we're re-running excuses---my favorite was always---"We all have to die of something"
A friend of mine said he quit the day I said I was quitting.Each time I have seen him since (about 7 times), he has been smoking and the excuse "It's only a couple, you know me Pete, I don't need me".The only variation on that was last Saturday "Mate I bought a pack because the Huskies were playing so badly"
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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.
