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Socially Acceptable~~~Funny How This Works To Give Ourselves Continued Permission

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎02-23-2012 10:30 AM

I was reading someones blog from last night where they said that all their friends were smokers.

 

It's true with any drug,  Marijauna, Cocaine, all the recreational drugs.

People decide on a drug and begin to spend their time exclusively with people who do their drug.

The thing they don't see is that the only common denominator is the drug.

And, the only way to break free of the addiction is to stop hanging out with those people.

Is the future of tobacco smoking going to be hookah parlors with lookouts at the doors?

I'm glad to be free of it.

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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.