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Small Changes

JonesCarpeDiem
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A Johns Hopkins Study Reveals the Scientific Secret to Double How Fast You Learn 

This also applies to quitting smoking.

You make small changes.

Those changes are reminders.

Those reminders change your future.

They lift you out out the repetition rut.

They show you change.

They prove possibilities.

The nicotine keeps you coming back.

Without that reward, quitting smoking is just unlearning the repetition of the ritual to get to that reward.

Time Is The Healer

The more life experiences as a non smoker, the greater the distance grows between you and smoking.

4 Comments
Barbscloud
Member

Hope you're feeling well today.

Barb

Barbara145
Member

Thinking about you and your healing.  Praying for you.

Christine13
Member

Thank you for this wonderful blog.  Healing prayers on the way!

Giulia
Member

Good stuff in that article.  Especially liked this:

The key to improvement is making small, smart changes, evaluating the results, discarding what doesn't work, and further refining what does work.

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.