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When Times Seem Tough, It's Time To Get Tougher!

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎07-17-2022 11:49 AM

          I had a tough time early in my quit.  I didn't have any (construction) jobs going, no  bids out and, no income expected. (Days 53-55)

          I was bummed, I was depressed, I was anxious, hopeless, at the end of my rope. It lasted three days straight. You know what I realized?

IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH

QUITTING SMOKING.

People who have quit tend to tie negative feelings to their quit and, some will use these feelings as an excuse to go back to smoking.

Don't tie all tempoary circumstances or negative emotions to quitting smoking.

IT'S CALLED LIFE. 

THEY HAPPEN TO EVERYONE.

When Times Seem Tough, It's Time To Get Tougher

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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.